Estée Lauder Cos., John Demsey Honored at 2018 Battery Gala

The Battery Conservancy held an evening of enchantment in Battery Park on Tuesday night. Designed and produced by Jo Malone London, the 23rd annual Battery Gala honored the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. and John Demsey with the Battery Medal for Corporate Leadership. While presenting Demsey with the medal, Leonard Lauder shed some light on the country’s immigration crisis, alluding to recent news coverage of President Trump’s family separation policy. “We’re in sight of the Statue of Liberty. My grandparents came [through that area] and if it wasn’t for an open door for my grandparents here, we could not have founded the Estée Lauder Cos. by my parents,” Lauder said. “Today, we have 45,000 employees, one of the greatest companies in New York and in America thanks to this city and thanks to the open door. We’ve all been reading about immigration; immigration is everybody’s business. I am calling on the heads of state of every country in the world to join together to do something about this. This is not just an American problem, it’s a world problem that we all have to help and solve. But we know this is a great country and we want to make it greater yet. Those

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