NEWS ALERT: Spa Aids Cyclone Victims

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The Green Spa in New York City is offering a Thai-massage-based Myanmar Treatment to help raise funds for relief and restoration work in Southeast Asia’s cyclone-hit Myanmar (formerly Burma). Fifteen percent of the treatment costs will be sent to World Vision, one of the Disaster Relief organizations being permitted by the country’s military junta to aid survivors. “We are also exploring a long-term economic redevelopment program for Myanmar’s survivors through the Thai Spa Association,” says Sheila Brody, the spa’s founder and creative director. Adds business development director Aditi Paul, “Trauma often reveals truth that reality obscures. We’re a Brooklyn-based spa with a global conscience.” To find out more about this effort, contact Brody at maureenbrody@aol.com

Spa Moves

On May 9th, Orange County, CA-based Spa Gregorie’s will be presented with the Women’s Cancer Research Foundation (WCRF)’s Humanitarian Award at the organization’s annual Faces of Courage benefit brunch at the Balboa Bay Club. Spa Gregorie’s principal Angela Cortright will stand alongside fellow awardee...   More

 
ARCONA has moved its spa (former known as The Arcona Studio) from its nearly 20-year home in Studio City, CA, to the coastal community of Santa Monica. The move coincides with a rebranding of the ARCONA...  More

Spa Villagio opens its doors this month at the landmark Four-Diamond Vintage Estate in Northern California’s Napa Valley community of Yountville. Hotel guests and locals are welcome at the 13,000-square-foot sanctuary, featuring 16 treatment rooms and five personal spa suites. Separate wings for men and women provide lounges...  More
 
 
 

Industry

Discover Beauty
The success of Cosmoprof North America's Discover Beauty program in 2007 prompted show organizers to broaden the profile for 2008 to include the spa sector. Discover Beauty—Spa will offer new companies and international ones not yet distributed in the United States the opportunity to meet with spa buyers interested in finding new resources. In support of the program, Cosmoprof North America...  More
 
More Than a Device

For the second year in a row, Bio-Therapeutic made the Puget Sound Business Journal's Top Medical Device Manufacturers list printed in its 2008 Book of Lists. The company moved up spots this year to number 20...  More
 
Stressing a Message
Murad Inc. and its founder, dermatologist Howard Murad, M.D., have awarded the International SPA Association Foundation an educational endowment to research ways to reduce what the dermatologist calls “cultural stress.” Murad describes the phenomenon as a societal crisis that’s wreaking havoc on our physical and emotional health. Factors that may contribute...   More 
 
 
 

People

Institut' DERMed recently appointed Charles Gregg to the post of chief operating officer. With 15 years of healthcare startup and operations management experience, Gregg’s goal is to increase brand awareness, sales and distribution as he helps lead the company...  More

The South Carolina Esthetics Association (SCEA) for continuing education recently acquired Harriet Cheri Wilson as its newest educator... More

Bio-Therapeutic welcomes Sallie Dietz to its Education Development department. Dietz has more than 24 years of esthetics experience, including 12 years managing the Center for Facial and Plastic Laser Surgery in Bellingham, WA, and current service on the committee of the National Interstate Council of State Board Examiners to help develop an advanced practices licensing exam for master estheticians...  More

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Murad has expanded its team by two. Lori Jacobus will serve as the company’s Vice President of Global Marketing, and Danny Guez (left) will become the new Director of International Sales for Europe and the Middle East. “We are focused on expanding our infrastructure to meet growing worldwide demand for our products,” says Murad COO Richard Murad. “Just as we responded...  More

Larry Silvestri, senior vice president and chief operating officer for the Chicago-based Mario Tricoci Hair Salons & Day Spas, has been named to the Board of Directors of Cosmetologists Chicago (CC). Silvestri is a 27-year industry veteran and member of Intercoiffure-Mondeial and the National Cosmetology Association. CC is an association of 5,000 salon professionals that offers its members continuing education, legislative representation, technology, scholarships and networking opportunities... More

CND has hired Tony Nemer to be its Vice President of International Sales. Nemer formerly held positions at American Crew...  More