Shiney's Scarves

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Staff,
We are looking to expand distribution of Shiney’s Scarves into 3 additional countries; China, Mexico and Sweden. All of our scarves are colorful and have an inspirational design or message embroidered on them. In order to honor the diverse range of cultures of the countries that we will be bringing our scarves to we must understand each countries tradition and symbolism of colors.
As far as China goes, the color red is associated with good fortune therefore a red colored scarf with kanji symbols relating to good fortune will most likely be our top sellers. Green and purple scarves will be our second largest stock green is linked with life and purple denotes love. We will not stock any white, brown or grey colored scarves for our

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