By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Welcome aboard to our latest link swapper - Conway Panamá. From their website: "Conway Panama is a department store in Panama with the best in fashion, furniture, home and garden decoration and accesories. Our focus is on offering our customers the best shopping experience with featured products from around the world, and an emphasis on excellent customer service." With stores in the Albrook Mall, Multicentro, Los Pueblos, and Milla 8, Conway is one of the most complete and accessible department store staples for shoppers in Panama, and excellent low to mid priced option with great selection. And hey, my first link swapper from a really large store - cool beans. And remember that by taking advantage of our long standing link exchange program you will be participating as a member in our strategic plan to build a strong, wide reaching and interconnected network of Panama based websites - all of which will receive significant long term SEO benefits. And the best part? It don't cost 'ya nutin.
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Munich, April 22 (DPA) Al Capone wore one. So did Winston Churchill and Ernest Hemingway. We are talking about the Panama hat, which is traditionally made in Ecuador. The elegant headwear woven from palm fibres, considered a status symbol for men for decades, is now making a slow comeback. Custom-woven Panama hats are in worldwide demand and numerous German milliners are in the business of refining ones imported from Ecuador. 'These days when people want to treat themselves to something special, they buy a Panama hat,' says Andreas Voigtlaender with satisfaction. He is the chairman of the society of German speciality hat shops (GDH) and runs a hat shop himself in Wiesbaden, central Germany. The headwear, which is also popular as an elegant sun protection, has now found its way into famous boutiques along the Berlin Kudamm and the Kö in Dusseldorf, the main retail and shopping centres in the cities. 'The Panama hat will never be a mass product like it was in the 1920s and thereafter. But you can definitely say it is experiencing a comeback,' said Voigtlaender. 
A critical aspect in establishing a new business relationship with Panama is being assured that merchants in the Cayman Islands will receive the goods purchased and the supplier will be paid. Since Scotiabank already has a well-established office in the country, they were able to help provide some helpful information to get started according to the Assistant General Manager of Scotiabank, Bruce John. “It was very helpful to understand how you protect yourself,” said Mr John. “It might take the first two or three transactions to get things smooth and then it will improve from there.” Mr John explained that because Scotiabank already had relationships in Cayman and Panama, he made several introductions between businesses. Such as introducing a local supermarket to poultry and coffee distributors. These initial discussions also lead to visiting plants and stores to see the types of product available. Then it is just of matter of smoothing out the logistics he noted. 
