Based in San Francisco’s Union Square, Cuyana wants to change how people buy and spend money. Cuyana is a nationwide brand for clothing and accessories. It’s CEO, Karla Gallardo, is on a mission to ...

John G. Macas, president and owner of a hat company that has kept Baltimoreans in fedoras, tweed caps and cream-colored Panamas for nearly 70 years, died Tuesday of heart failure. He was 72. Mr. Macas ...

Beijing, May 31 (EFE).Beijing, May 31 (EFE). — The Ecuadorian Embassy in China promoted Tuesday its typical Andean straw hats known in their country of origin as “toquillas” but called “Panama hats” ...

Despite their name, Panama hats are not made in Panama -- they're are made in Ecuador, and are woven by hand from a plant called the toquilla palm. And the finest of these hats is actually woven in a ...

CUENCA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuadoreans have mostly swallowed their chagrin and accepted that their most famous export will for evermore be known as the "Panama hat." Sign up here. The Ecuadorean hats ...