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Penchant for pampering prompts spa expansions.(News)(Chardonnay)(Brief Article)
Crain's Cleveland Business, September, 2004
Byline: HENRY GOMEZ Two Cleveland-area spas are offering proof that despite a sluggish economy, spending bundles on facials, manicures and massages has never been more popular. Chardonnay's, a Concord salon and spa, has grown in a little more than a year from a husband-and-wife startup to a business on a hiring spree.
"Baby boomers are getting to that age where they are thinking about taking care of themselves,'' said Chardonnay's president and co-owner Heather Janesz, who opened the spa last April with her husband, Robert. "And, yes, the men - the `metrosexuals' - are more aware,'' she said. "It's becoming more mainstream for men to pamper themselves, too.'' The 30-employee spa plans to add as many as 50 technicians and stylists between now and...
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