Shanghai Vive or Shuangmei () is a Chinese luxury cosmetics brand.
''Shuangmei'' — translated into
English
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as ''Two Girls'' — originated as a trade mark of The House of Kwong Sang Hong Limited, founded in 1898 in
Hong Kong
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, and stationed in
Shanghai
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in 1903. Under Communist China's public-private partnership policy, the Shanghai branch of Kwong Sang Hong was subsumed into the Shanghai Jahwa Corporation in 1956, and the ''Shuangmei'' brand gradually discontinued in
Mainland China
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In 2010, Shanghai Jahwa Corporation has restarted the ''Shuangmei'' brand, and adopted the English name ''Shanghai Vive''; the English translation ''Two Girls'' cannot be used as it remains a trade mark of Kwong Sang Hong in Hong Kong.
See also
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Florida Water
Florida Water is an American version of an Eau de Cologne. Like European eau de colognes it is a citric scent, but shifts the emphasis towards sweet orange (rather than the bergamot orange, lemon and neroli of 4711) and adds spicy notes like cl ...
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Manufacturing companies based in Shanghai
Cosmetics brands