Ecua-Andino Hats month and 6 months, it mostly depends on the quality of the product. The company new collections twice a year: Ecua-Andino Hats Ecua-Andino Hats is an Ecuadorian company founded in 1985 by Alejandro Lecaro and Édgar Sánchez. The brand is dedicated to the production and exportation of Panama hats. It is one of the most important companies producing finished Panama hats in Ecuador. In 1985, Édgar Sánchez and Alejandro Lecaro started to sell local crafts, initially to tourists on the beach, and then from a small shop in the center of Guayaquil, Ecuador. In 1994, they decided to change the
Hats (album) distributed "Hats" in North America—took out a full-page advertisement in "Billboard" magazine offering a free copy of the CD to anyone who called a toll-free number which was provided. Three singles were released from the album: the first, "The Downtown Lights", was released in September 1989 and peaked at #67 in the UK singles charts, followed by "Headlights on the Parade" in September 1990 which reached #72, and "Saturday Night" in January 1991, which reached #50. In the United States, "Hats" peaked at #108 on the "Billboard" 200. "The Downtown Lights" reached #10 on the "Billboard" Hot Modern Rock Tracks