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“4” come in? Carlon was inspired by
her three women friends, all blonde,
who she frequently went out with
and was in the presence of when she
dreamed up the idea several years ago
while living in Arizona.
“It is a tribute to being there with
my girls; they were the inspiration.
If I hadn’t met them and they hadn’t
been there with me, the idea would
have never come to fruition,” she tells
Tobacco Business,
adding that the name
also works as an attention-grabber.
The idea first came to Carlon
at the historic Arizona Biltmore
hotel in Phoenix. She was there for
a builders’ event, thanks to one of
the three friends who worked for an
architectural firm, when a veteran
