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NEW YORK -- Warren-Tricomi is setting its sights far: The Far East.
The upscale midtown salon founded in 1995 by Brooklyn, New York natives Joel Warren and Edward Tricomi, and Romanian Roxana Pintilie, has entered into an agreement with Number Three Company, an Osaka, Japan-based beauty distributor, to build a 10-unit Warren-Tricomi franchise in Japan by 2003.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however Warren estimates each salon will cost in the neighborhood of $800,000 to $1 million to build. The first salon is expected to be complete within the next six months and will be based in Tokyo.
Warren, Tricomi and Pintilie retain artistic control of the salons, and will also train all stylists and aestheticians working in the salons. Even the smaller details, such as what music is played over each salon's sound system, will also be decided by the trio. "I wasn't willing to give up my name...