HAWKING IN THE MARKET--SAMINAKA COMMERCIAL NEWS

***Rebranding is occuring bit by bit in all Tamsin Barzane's stores. While they will keep their individual African-inspired directions (cacao as a couture boutique, Cinnamon Brigade for traditional African wear, Tropicality for more casual, sexy outfits), they are all coming under the cacao umbrella, part of the cacao group of companies. This means not only a photography update, but the addition of new prim attachments at skirt and trouser bottoms, etc. Keep checking back! Sales are on with some old items now, and after all the upgrading takes place, new items will be introduced, too!

***A head's up--Adire has never fully been developed as a store--it contains some Yoruba and Yoruba Diaspora items, but not a full range. The art will go back to the art stores. By next week, Adire will be a specialized clothing store catering to followers of the orisha. Everyday devotional dress? We'll have it? Full ritual attire in your orisha's colors, with accessories included? Look no further! And you'll be able to walk through the back of the store into Oliha Yiwama's office, and from there into our Olokun shrine, also in place by next week!

***Keep that head up!!! With Oliha and his entrepreneurial spirit due back, things will be hopping! Expect to hear of all kinds of new ventures at Saminaka!

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HAWKING IN THE MARKET--SAMINAKA COMMERCIAL NEWS

**Cinnamon Brigade and Kiko will soon be expanding their Saminaka shops--same locations, just a bigger domain to allow for greater product display and maneuverability. This is predicted to occur within the next week or two

**Cinnamon Brigade and Tropicality (on another sim) will be doing a merchandise transfer. Cinnamon Brigade will show all the traditional African wear, while Tropicality will feature couture Western-style wear from African fabrics. Both will include shoes and men's wear. This transfer begins this week in conjunction with Cinnamon Brigade's overhaul--with new merchandise to be in the stores and completed by next week. You'll like what you see in both spots!

**Saminaka will soon have small market stalls selling jewelry, gestures, and tattoos! A few of these low prim, low priced open shops will be available for rent.

**Midnight Mania boards back! They were briefly gone as the preparations for the Treasure Hunt and the Middle Passage experience were underway, but they're baaaaack! In Cinnamon Brigade, Gidan Magarifi, Tropicality and Pangolin Dreams, from now on these boards will only sell items that have been cycled out of the shops or were once in a treasure hunt--with a few objects promoting a set thrown in from time to time. You know how this works--a free physical slap of the board allows--as long as the quota is made--all slap happy shoppers to get the prize by midnight SLT! Enjoy yours. I will be trying to change them out daily or every other day, depending on rl commitments

**Good initial response--with virtually no publicity, the Saminaka Compass had 46 viewers last week, from places as varied as London, Eastleigh, Sutton, and Manchester in the UK, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Alabama, Texas and West Virginia in the U.S., as well as Winnipeg Canada. Stockholm, Athens, Nassau, Bialystok Poland, Tasmania, Brunei, Brazil, and Indonesia. We shall grow, but we're global already!

**A variety of blogs wrote wonderful things about our treasure hunt--one of the most interesting was a German blog whose author unpacks and photographs treasure prizes, so you can see if a hunt is worth your while! Check out http://sl-schnaeppchen.de/index.php?cont=read&set=10

Photo above by J.C. McCall at http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/marketwomen.html