Another common practice at 3M is to formulate global strategies plans for the export and eventual overseas production of its products. Within the context of these plans, 3M gives local managers considerable autonomy to find the best way to sell product within their country. Thus, when 3M first exported its Post-it notes, it planned to “sample the daylights” out of the product, but it also told Local managers hired office cleaning crews to pass out samples in Great Britain and Germany; in Italy, they used office products distributors to pass out free samples; while in Malaysia, local managers employed young women to go from office to office handing out samples of the product. In typical 3M fashion, when the volume of Post-it notes was sufficient to justify it, local production replaced exports from the United States. Thus, after several years 3M found ii worthwhile to set up production facilities in France to produce Post-it notes for the European market.