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ENTREPRENEURIAL
DEVELOPMENT
TOPIC
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA
SHAHNAZ HUSAIN :
She is known as the Queen of Herbal Beauty Care. She was married off at
the age of 16. But her interest in beauty and cosmetic made her discover Shahnaz
Herbals Inc. The company is best known for its herbal cosmetics particularly skin
care products without animal testing. The company has over 400 Franchise
clinics across the world covering 138 countries. She has been bestowed with the
Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 2006 and Worlds Greatest
Woman Entrepreneur award by 1996 Success Magazine.
Shahnaz Husain is an Indian Entrepreneur.Read Shahnazs Profile and Biography
here.An inspiring women entrepreneur with a steadily growing market all over the world,
Shahnaz Husain has been proving to the world through her life that the spirit of entrepreneurship,
passion and hard work are enough to realise ones dreams. Her biography penned by her
daughter Nelofar called Flame: The story of my mother Shahnaz Husain too is an enlivening
work for many.
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She realized that chemical treatments are harmful and have long lasting negative effects. She was
thus attracted towards the ancient treasure of Ayurveda.
She came up with many natural Ayurvedic chemical free products for beauty care. She
firmly believes in the power of care and cure of the nature than chemicals.
DIVERSIFICATION:
Husain expanded her consumer base by entering the retail markets in 1990s.Her new
below Rs 250 range is targeted towards the masses which is a very lucrative market segment.
The Shahnaz group has diversified into health resorts, spas as well as low calorie health drinks.
CONTROVERSIES:
Even though she has always been in the limelight for positive reasons, but she still has
seen her share of controversies when her only son Sameer Husain died under mysterious
circumstances in Patna on January 6, 2008.Rabiya Husain, Sameer s wife lodged a 40 page
complaint against Shehnaz charging her for dowry and allegedly blaming her for her sons death.
She was awarded Padma Shree in 2006 from President Dr.Abdul Kalam.
She has been honoured with two prestigious international awards for Quality Excellence and
Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur 2002, by Global Quality Management, in London.
She was awarded the Golden America Award and the Indian Government Awards for
Export Excellence.
She was awarded Success Magazines Worlds Greatest Woman Entrepreneur award in
1996.
SUCHI MUKHERJEE
When you talk of women entrepreneurs, there are only a handful of them in our
country. The recent wave of new change that our country is overseeing, this phenomenon is
changing. Suchi Mukherjee, a women entrepreneur who has been constantly proving with her
achievements that it is completely not a gender based space where a few years ago only males
dominated. Who is Suchi Mukherjee? You must be wondering. Suchi Mukherjee is the founder
of LimeRoad website, which lets you discover, share and shop women lifestyle products. Suchi
Mukherjee wiki will further tell you about her journey throughout her life, her struggles, her
career, and other interesting facts about Suchi Mukherjee.
her own, which is quite ambitious for a person like her. Suchi Mukherjee birthday has always
been a sumptuous affair among her elite friends and family.
With such a brilliant portfolio of companies under her belt, Suchi Mukherjee
success story might seem as if everything happened overnight without any struggle.
The reality is completely different; she too had to face ups and downs throughout her
professional life. At first being a part of newly formed companies to scale them up
and making them global and starting a company of her own which has become highly
successful is no easy job. After completing her bachelors and masters degree from
University of Cambridge and London School of economics respectively, she soon
started working as a professional right after completing her studies.
She started working at Lehman Brothers Inc. in 1998 in a position of Senior Associate for
Corporate Finance. It was Suchi Mukherjee first job in her career. She worked there for 5 years
until moving on to her next company in her career. She focused highly on Telecoms Media
technology and Financial Institutions while she worked there. After leaving the company with a
rich experience, she moved on to work with Virgin Media from June 2003 as a Director of
Change and Business Development. Also, she was highly consumer focused in Virgin Media and
was a member of Consumer Division Management Team.
She worked with Virgin media for 2 whole years and then switched over her career path
again to eBay, which was one of the best e-commerce platforms available. With eBay, she learnt
many skills that would later be handy in her own venture. Also this change in companies helped
her work in diversified conditions across many companies. In the year 2006, Skype was a part of
eBay then, which is now property of Microsoft. With the phenomenal work she did, Suchi
Mukherjee was soon promoted to Director and Member of Executive Management Team of
Skype. She oversaw the major overhaul that Skype went through in its earlier stage and made it
what it is now. There were structural concerns over the company as 3 CEOs were changed in
mere 2 years.
After empowering Skype with her skills, she was again promoted to a position of
Managing Director of Gumtree, which was a child company of eBay Inc. After all this years, she
had become reliant enough to start something on her own and take it off. She took Gumtree to
great heights and made it a market leader in UK. After successfully handling companies of this
scale, she set out to do something of her own and founded LimeRoad, which is her own venture.
She is also the CEO of LimeRoad website. It has received various rounds of funding and can
sustain the business as it is now which is highly commendable as very few startups become
successful.
The woman behind the largest Indian lingerie online portal understood the need of the market.
Richa Kar speaks about her journey and on being a young female entrepreneur.
She said, Most shops did not keep all the sizes, and smaller shops have male salesman making it
really difficult for a woman to convey what she really needs. For a woman, it is quite
embarrassing to step into a lingerie store, and have the salesman or girl scan you and say 'madam
34 B will fit you.'
She further said, "I wanted to change the way Indian women bought lingerie by offering them an
entirely different and enjoyable shopping experience. Every woman, no matter her size or shape,
deserves well fitting and sexy lingerie; and with Zivame I hope to give her that."
The biography of Zivame founder mentions how fearless one needs to be to enter the club of
successful women entrepreneurs in India. She has broken the taboos of society and has launched
the quirky Zivame bra advertisements as well. The website sells panties and lingerie. Of all sort
and types like backless bra and bikini collections. Other than various panty set, the site also has a
collection of pajamas, boxers, housecoats, etc.