Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), names its apparel brand Hansiba, after a 92 year old woman, and takes it global.
Hansiba is 92 years old but her capacity for work can put a young athlete to shame.
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Norma Ratcliffe (pictured) is the first female winemaker to become commercially successful in South Africa. She is from Edmonton and seen as one of the pioneers of contemporary South African winemaking, an industry that has boomed globally in the post-apartheid years.
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Women entrepreneurship in Ethiopia is slowly but surely making headway.
The formation of the Ethiopian Women Exporters’ Forum is fitting manifestation of this growing trend.Established in January 2000, the Ethiopian Women Exporters’ Forum (list of members) aims at bolstering the organizational and technical capacity of members and arm them with that extra competitive edge to excel in the export trade and the entrepreneurial capacity to stand up to the challenges of international trade and commerce.
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It’s a spectacular day in Chicago. Wherever you are at this moment, make the most of it. I am getting ready to head over to the Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival where folks in the community exhibit their wares, many of which can quite easily be exported.
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Everyone is awaiting the new film “Julie & Julia” which portrays cookbook author and iconic TV teacher (and entrepreneur) known as much for her warbling near-falsetto voice as for her impact on American cooking: Julie Child.
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Two young entrepreneurs in 1987 set out to find quality driven luggage for women. When their search didn’t pan out, Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia Miller (pictured L-R) decided to make their own.
After stealing the show with neighborhood clothing displays,
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Where’s all the action with exports? With women entrepreneurs. Women are becoming increasingly important among the world’s exporters because many women run small businesses.
In Australia, for example, women run one-third of all small businesses. If this trend continues,
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How do Britain’s most successful female entrepreneurs feel about the ways that they are characterized and the obstacles they encounter in running their businesses?
You can find out each week for the next month at Telegraph.co.uk where they will be asking some of Britain’s 100 most entrepreneurial women for their insights into specific challenges and opportunities confronting women today.
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Southern Fresh Products, Inc., an exporting company of fresh Del Monte Gold pineapples under the Del Monte label, helps empower community women with livelihood program.
These women-members who are dependent wives, mothers, or sisters of landowners or employees of SFPI get their source for their daily consumption out of their earnings from the livelihood project.
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Nanay S.R.L. is a private organization that works with more than 100 knitters and handcrafters in La Paz, Bolivia.
It’s knitters and handcrafters have acquired high techniques in quality and design in the last eight years of exporting to the U.S.,
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