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Mary Kay Cosmetics in China: Business Is in the Pink

SHANGHAI -- On a warm and breezy August night here, a small group of reporters visiting from Washington met with the China president of Mary Kay cosmetics over dinner at a rooftop restaurant. Mary Kay is thriving in China, recovering nicely from a bleak time during the late 1990s when the Dallas-based company was shut down by the Chinese government, its network of sales consultants barred from doing business for five months. The venerable and innocent Mary Kay had been swept up in a government crackdown on pyramid schemes that cropped up as capitalism took root in the Chinese economy, many of ...

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