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LisaSperling

I handle media relations for M&M Products Company, a pioneer in the ethnic hair care industry. Established in 1973 by two young African-American pharmacists who introduced the first product formulated to soften natural black hair, M&M has since become an industry leader. Based in Atlanta and now privately owned by Iqbal and Yunus Kalla, M&M markets therapeutic and maintenance hair care and grooming products under the brand names Sofn'free, GroHealthy, Bump Patrol, Curly Perm, Easy Wave, and Salon Quality. Products sell in mass market retails, such as Walmart and Target, drug stores, grocers, beauty supply stores, and barber shops in every major African-American market and throughout Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. For more information, visit mmproducts.com and bumppatrol.com.

Sassybax Introduces Slimming Slip that Won’t Slip When You Sit

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LOS ANGELES — Serving as her own fit model and using what she calls “Body Mapping” to follow and flatter the body’s natural curves, Sassybax’s inventor and CEO Amanda Kennedy has designed a multi-tiered-compression slip to add to her popular shapewear line. The garment slenderizes the entire torso and thighs and promises to stay put without riding up a woman’s legs even when she...

Former Miss Texas Gives Advice to Crown-Holder after earning Miss USA Title

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LOS ANGELES (April 14, 2008) — Amanda Horan Kennedy, born Barbara Horan and crowned Miss Texas in 1978, salutes Crystle Stewart of Missouri City, Texas, for winning this year’s Miss USA pageant over the weekend. Kennedy, who won the best state costume and second runner-up at the Miss USA competition 30 years ago, is the founder of Sassybax, maker of high-end shapewear that sells at Neiman...