Sunbathe Joins Laughlin's License Family.DALLAS -- Laughlin Products, Inc. (LPI (Lines Per Inch) The number of lines printed in a vertical inch. (language) LPI - A PL/I interpreter for IBM PCs and workstations. ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/pli/runpli1a.arc. E-mail: <rcg@lpi.liant.com>. ) proudly announces that Sunbathe sun·bathe intr.v. sun·bathed, sun·bath·ing, sun·bathes To expose the body to the sun. sun of Jonesboro, Ark., has become its newest licensee. It joins a family that includes Mystic Tan (Texas), Hollywood Tans (N.J.), Jean Paul's Tanning (Ireland), and Mist-On Systems (Texas). The Sunbathe license is for the worldwide, non-exclusive rights to LPI's patented sunless spray booth technology. Sunbathe's key players are former owners, executives and engineers of Sun Industries (Arkansas). The founders of Sun Industries, Porter and Bill Hurt, were pioneers of the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. indoor tanning industry. In 1979, they adopted the popular new sunbed sun·bed n. See tanning bed. sunbed n → cama solar sunbed sun n → lit pliant; (with sun lamp technology, available only in Europe then, into an appropriate product for the American market. Later that year, they formed the first U.S. tanning bed-manufacturing company, Sun Industries. Their long-time marketing director, Jerry Deveney, joined the team in 1986 and was instrumental in their marketing success. In 2000, Ergoline (Germany) purchased Sun Industries. The Hurts and Deveney plan to use the same energy and expertise that made them pioneers in the UV tanning bed tanning bed n. A structure lined with sunlamps in which one stands or reclines in order to acquire a suntan. Also called sunbed. market to launch a line of sunless tanning Sunless tanning (also known as self tanning, or UV-free tanning) refers to applying chemicals on the skin to produce an effect similar in appearance to a traditional suntan. products. Their flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. will be their novel sunless booth. They are currently test marketing their booth in select salons under the name Cabana Mist. They plan on moving production to a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility by May. Sunbathe will enter the sunless spray booth market with several things in their favor. Especially valuable is their experience as the forerunners in the tanning industry, stated Dr. Tom Laughlin, president of LPI and inventor of the sunless spray booth. Dr. Laughlin went on to say, "There is an incredible parallel between the trials and tribulations they faced as they pioneered the indoor tanning industry and our current experience in the new sunless spray booth industry." Porter Hurt, Sunbathe president, added, "My heart has always been in the tanning industry. I've made a lot of friends over the years, and look forward to working with them again in this dynamic arena." |
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