HAITI’S FORMAL PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR SHATTERED BY EARTHQUAKE
March 1st, 2010
BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN
THE DOORS of Little Europe and other high-end boutiques in Haiti's ravaged capital city have not experienced much traffic since an earthquake with the magnitude of seven on the Richter scale struck in January.
There has been little need for beauty and cosmetics products in Haiti since, with this poor country's elite grappling with the problems caused by the deaths of roughly 200,000 people, and 1.2 million losing their homes. Another half a million people have left for provincial cities and abroad. ...
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