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Article: In China, Mary Kay has women thinking pink.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2005
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Byline: Katherine Yung
SHANGHAI, China _ Nervous and excited, Hao Xiaojuan flashes a warm smile as she enters a room full of young women, most wearing purple jackets and skirts and satiny pink blouses.
Everyone applauds as they survey her new black St. John suit with its high collar and gold and black bumblebee buttons.
The suit said it all. This slim 40-year-old woman with cropped brown hair had reached the pinnacle of Mary Kay Inc.'s sales force as its newest national sales distributor.
"You are now a role model, just like Mary Kay," she reads aloud from a congratulatory letter from Tom Whatley, president of global sales and ...