Thinx has emerged from the chaos of receiving a lot of negative press recently to that of a company with a clear global mission: making underwear products for people with periods and breaking taboos around the topic.
Are they thinking of new growth?
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We are so excited about our next wegg workshop® March 13th and hosted by Associated Bank (525 West Monroe Street, 15th Floor) from 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Central time.
Here’s why we cannot contain our enthusiasm.
Kiesque CEO and founder Jacqueline Smith will be sharing her experience running a global small business and expect all attendees (that is why seating is limited!) to engage in a conversation.
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Here is an excerpt from our hashtag #weggchat (follow @weggtoday) held on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. Central time.
Starting Up and Taking a Personal Care Product Global
weggchat™ guest: Jacqueline Smith, CEO
Kiesque (www.Kiesque.com)
weggchat moderator: Laurel Delaney,
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On Wednesday February 6th at 11:00 am CST, Jacqueline Smith will be leading our first weggchat™ of 2019 on Twitter. Smith is the CEO of Kiesque, and her chat will cover “Starting Up and Taking a Personal Care Product Global.”
Why should you participate?
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While Solange Nisingizwe was on vacation, she designed clothes for herself. When she returned to Switzerland, she met so many people who admired her outfits and were asking where they could get similar designs that she began making them on a small scale until the number grew.
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Three trailblazing Australian entrepreneurs — Samantha Wills, Emma Isaacs and Lizzy Abegg — have built global businesses from the ground up. Do they have something you don’t? Highly unlikely. What they discovered in their global journey is this:
We just have to refuse to buy into the stories we tell ourselves about why we can’t,
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This past Wednesday, wegg® had the pleasure of hosting the Industry Segment Manager of Retail and Consumer Goods for UPS, Cristina Bandal. Bandal lead one of our free online wegginars®, which provide monthly, accessible education to women entrepreneurs everywhere. Bandal’s talk covered how to overcome the obstacles that people face when trying to sell their products to the global market.
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Panelists at the recent World Trade Organization’s Public Forum event in Geneva, chaired by UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant, asked which data were necessary for formulating gender-responsive trade policies and how to improve their availability.
Analysis of global value chains – the complex international supply and manufacturing chains along which modern goods pass – can show the important part played by women in global trade but which is missed by trade statistics alone.
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Bonnie Chui, contributor for Forbes, writes a thoughtful piece about how female entrepreneurs are going global and that new policy attention may close the gap. At wegg®, we are closing that gap — whether there is new policy attention or not.
We not only serve women entrepreneurs by educating them on how to go global,
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