China leading the way for Mary Kay – Julia Glick

From AP via Detroit Free Press:

Hope of joining China’s growing middle class drove Xiang Jun Mei, a poor rice farmer’s daughter, to hawk Mary Kay products to everyone she met.

Wang Di started selling the American cosmetics to spice up her days of wifely chores and to earn the respect of her executive husband.

Both women see in themselves something of the late Mary Kay Ash, the bouffant, pink-Cadillac-driving Texan who founded Mary Kay cosmetics in 1963. Increasingly, the company sees its future in these Chinese entrepreneurs. [Full Text]