Women

Entrepreneurs
Guided by
Ms. Meha Mandawewala
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 Group No. 3
Group Members Roll No.
Bhoomi Desai 310

Ishita Pandey 327

Rahul Parmar 328

Payal Solanki 348

Dhruv Trivedi 353

Sindhu Vishwakarma 355

Pooja Wala 356

Acknowledgement
 Index Page No.
Introduction 1
Preeta Sukhtankar
Joy Mangano
Suchi Mukherjee
J K Rowling
Sabina Chopra
Elizabeth Holmes
Shahnaaz Hussain
Harpreet Kaur
Upasana Taku
Rashmi Sinha
Meena Bindra
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Ekta Kapoor
Indu Jain
Conclusion
Bibliography
 INTRODUCTION
Women entrepreneur may be defined as a woman or group of women who initiate, organize, and
run a business enterprise. In terms of Schumpeterian concept of innovative entrepreneurs,
women who innovate, imitate or adopt a business activity are called women entrepreneurs.

The Government of India has defined women entrepreneurs based on women participation in
equity and employment of a business enterprise.

Federick Harbison has enumerated five entrepreneurial function of women entrepreneur as

follows:
1. Exploration of the prospects of starting a new business enterprise,
2. Undertaking of risks and handling of economic uncertainties involved in the business.
3. Introduction of innovations or imitation of innovations.
4. Co-ordination, administration and control.
5. Supervision and leadership.
 10 TRAITS OF A SUCCESSFUL WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR
1. Positive attitude. A positive attitude is the fuel needed to drive us from idea conception to
realization. A positive attitude takes conscious effort on your part. Arrest negative thoughts
and replace them with positive one to help you stay positive, surround yourself with people
who'll encourage, inspire and believe in you. If you have a positive attitude, you'll be able to
see the potential that lies within you.
2. Overcome obstacles. Women who've struggled in their lives tend to have amazing inner
strength. Use adversity to your advantage. At the end of a struggle, you're a better, more
valuable person. Helen Keller said, "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only
through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired and success achieved
3. Strong-minded. Strong minded doesn't mean that you're rude, conceited or destructive. On
the contrary, a strong-minded woman displays confidence. When you're strong minded, you're
empowered, possess a healthy self image and take responsibility for your life.
4. Soft-hearted. Charity and compassion allow us to reach beyond our cookie-cutter lives and
make a difference in the lives of others. By reaching out to others, we grow as individuals. A
woman with a compassionate heart has great influence.
5. Integrity. You don't need to leave victims in your path to be victorious. You don't need to step
on others to step to the next level. Integrity must be the very core of your character. Always
put honor before dollars and live by your convictions. As you gain respect and trust, your
company will grow. People seek to do business with those they trust.
6. Balance in life. Our lives revolve around four major categories: family and friends, health,
wealth and spirit. These areas must be balanced to lead a fulfilled life. Evaluate your balance
continually. A balanced life allows you to think clearly with imagination and optimism.
7. Set goals. Goals are dreams with a plan for realization. Commit your short- and long-term
goals to writing. Record how and when you'll achieve them. Post your goals in plain sight and
review them often. Record the reward when the goal is attained. Remember that you can't hit a
mark you can't see, and continual success demands a plan.
8. Driven by a cause. Looking for the hole in the market is a strategic move in every
entrepreneur's plan. Find the needs in your business ventures and pursue those causes with
passion.
9. Is a teacher. Great woman teach. People want to know what you have that ignites that flame
within. We can help mold the great women of tomorrow.
10. Focused on the next step. The greatest point of resistance is just before breakthrough. We
must have a stubborn resolve to see ourselves to the other side. When challenging
circumstances seek to derail us, if we just take that next step, we'll find that we've made it.
 PREETA SUKHTANKAR
Preeta Sukhtankar combined all her experiences in media and branding to start a unique e-
commerce company, The Label Corp, in India that taps into the expertise of celebrities and aims
to build Indias first editorial e-commerce brand.

Today her company, The Label Corp, has three brands called The Home Label with Suzanne
Khan, The Closet Label with Malaika Arora Khan and The Trunk Label with Bipasha Basu.

She first started her career with a magazine. Then she went on to work in the electronic media.
Later, a few friends approached her with the idea of celebrity management. While the whole
celebrity marketing stuff as a whole didnt excite her so much, what was exciting was the
brokerage involved in the process of celebrity management.

A large part of the work was initiating partnerships and tie-ups between celebrities and brands.
The idea evolved into working with experts and taste-makers, to inspire consumers to make the
right choice.

That is how The Label Corp was born with the idea of having celebrities become your personal
guides across tabloids.

Home was the first category they launched. Suzanne was an obvious choice for them;
considering she was an expert interior designer. That was how The Home Label came about.

After that they knew they wanted to do clothing, but not just any kind of clothing. So if we go to
The Closet Label, we will see that they do everyday leisure wear. It is not fashion centric, but
everybody will get something for their different moods.

They want to work with strong independent women as their taste-makers, who may not
necessarily have a famous last name. Their target is the modern Indian woman.
 JOY MANGANO
Joy Mangano is an American inventor, businesswoman, and entrepreneur known for inventions
such as the self-wringing Miracle Mop. She is the president of Ingenious Designs, LLC, and
appears regularly on the US television shopping channel HSN.
The 2015 film Joy was loosely based on her life.
Miracle Mop
In 1990 after growing frustrated with ordinary mops, Mangano developed her first invention, the
Miracle Mop, a self-wringing plastic mop with a head made from a continuous loop of 300 feet
(90 meters) of cotton that can be easily wrung out without getting the user's hands wet. With her
own savings and investments from family and friends, she made a prototype and manufactured
100 units.
After selling the mop at trade shows and in local stores on Long Island, she sold 1,000 units on
consignment to QVC. It sold modestly at first, but once QVC allowed Mangano to go on-air to
sell it herself, she sold 18,000 mops in less than a half hour.
Mangano incorporated her business as Arma Products, later renaming it Ingenious Designs. She
sold Ingenious Designs to USA Networks, the parent company of the Home Shopping Network,
in 1999. By the year 2000, her company was selling $10 million worth of Miracle Mops per year.

Other products
Huggable Hangers velvet-flocked, no-slip hangers whose thin profile conserves closet space.
Endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, Huggable Hangers were HSN's best-selling product as of 2010,
with more than 300 million sold.
Forever Fragrant a line of home odor neutralizers including sticks, wickless candles, scent
stands, finials, spheres, drawer liners, and shoe shapers. Mangano broke an HSN record on
January 31, 2010 by selling 180,000 units in one day.
Clothes It All Luggage System wheeled luggage with organizational features like a padded
laptop compartment, a toiletry organizer, a pocket for plane tickets, and removable dividers.
They range from smaller duffel bags to a 22-inch (56-centimeter) portable dresser with
removable drawers, as well as a briefcase and pet carrier.
Performance Platforms shoes with a rubber platform heel that gives the wearer extra height.
In May 2010, Mangano sold 30,000 pairs in three hours on HSN. The line began as sneakers, and
has since branched to Mary Janes, mules, and sandals. The shoes are produced in conjunction
with the Grasshoppers division of the Stride Rite Corporation.
Comfort & Joy Textiles bedding made from Supima cotton and down alternative with a
reversible, zippered duvet cover and sheets that are attached to the bed skirt for removal and
cleaning.
Shades Readers a line of reading glasses sold in sets of three or more so that they can be kept
around the home and office for easy access. Mangano has sold more than a million pairs.
 SUCHI MUKHERJEE
Suchi is the founder and CEO of the online social discovery platform for women, Lime Road.
She is extremely passionate about building consumer technology products. With Lime Road, she
has an aim of revolutionizing the way lifestyle products are discovered and bought by people
online in India.

Before founding LimeRoad.com, Suchi have worked with companies like Skype, Gumtree, eBay
and Virgin Media.

Suchi post graduated from London School of Economics and graduated from St. Stephens
College, Delhi.

In her life Suchi received many awards and recognition like K.C. Nag Economics Prize for best
student in Economics, George K. George Memorial Scholarship for overall contribution, all at
St. Stephens College, Delhi University, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Scholarship &
Fellowship, and Chadbourn Scholarship for merit, both at Cambridge University and British
Chevening Scholarship, at the London School of Economics.

Suchi came from a family with no business background and after spending 18 years of studying,
living and working in the UK, 39 year old Mukherjee decided to come to India start an online
business especially for women and this is when Lime Road came into existence. Suchi was
selected as 1 of 15 women worldwide Rising Talents, high potential leaders under 40. Suchi is
an ex-eBay, Skype and Gumtree.
 J K ROWLING
Joanne Rowling, best known as J.K. Rowling, was born on July 31, 1965, in Yate, England. She
adopted her pen name, J.K., incorporating her grandmother's name, Kathleen, for the latter
initial.
As a single mother living in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling became an international literary
sensation in 1999, when the first three installments of her Harry Potter children's book series
took over the top three slots of The New York Times best-seller list after achieving similar
success in her native United Kingdom. The phenomenal response to Rowling's books culminated
in July 2000, when the fourth volume in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, became
the fastest-selling book in history.
By the summer of 2000, the first three Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban earned approximately $480 million in three years, with over 35 million copies in print
in 35 languages. In July 2000, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire saw a first printing of 5.3
million copies and advance orders of over 1.8 million. After a postponed release date, the fifth
installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, hit bookstores in June 2003. The sixth
installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, sold 6.9 million copies in the United States
in its first 24 hours, the biggest opening in publishing history. Prior to its July 2007 release, the
seventh and final installment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
was the largest ever pre-ordered book at Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores, and at
Amazon.com.
Rowling is also reportedly working on a new Harry Potter-related book. On her website, she
announced that she will write "an encyclopedia of Harry's world" and the royalties from this
volume will be donated to charity.
 SABINA CHOPRA
Sabina Chopra, Co-Founder, Yatra.com, a leading service provider in the online travel space has
been felicitated at the second annual Women Leaders in India Awards 2010, at a glittering
award ceremony held in the national capital. The event recognizes an exceptional leader who
has played an important role in the specific sector and developments on various levels. Sabina
Chopra was declared the winner in the Travel & Tourism category.
This esteemed award which is in its 2nd year is based on various parameters like internal
perception within the organization, credibility, achievement and value contribution to the
business. The award also looks at persons track record of performance & achievements along
with values, integrity & work life balance which form the essential competencies of a women
leader. The event also evaluates the barriers that women encounter in the Business world.
Women Leaders in India is an ideal environment for Women Entrepreneurs, Business Women
and Corporate Women to explore the contemporary issues and management concerns prevailing
at the workplace. This year the initiative hosted 150 Top Women from the Business and
Political Arena.
On winning the Award, Sabina Chopra, co-founder, Yatra.com, remarked, I am absolutely
delighted, and would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the Jury for conferring this highly
prestigious Award upon me. It comes as gratitude to receive an honor like this. From day one
our single minded focus has been to fulfill the needs of our customers related to travel and come
up with innovative solutions to make travel easy for them. People share a love-hate relationship
with travel; Yatra.com has successfully managed to create a relationship which is love all the
way, by offering best-in-class products and services. Such recognitions are a tribute to our
brand and the people behind it .
In her role as a co-founder of Yatra.com, Sabina Chopra manages the sales, fulfillment, and
after sales support for all Yatra businesses. She also heads Yatras domestic hotel business,
where she uses her expertise of the hospitality business in India to ensure that Yatra.coms hotel
product is the best on offer. With her guidance Yatra.com has not only enhanced its customer
base but also received industry recognitions like Best Online Travel Agency of the year 2008
at the Galileo Express Travel Worlds awards 08, becoming the only Indian travel company
among the Top 100 start ups in Asia awarded by Red Herring, Yatra.com has garnered a
distinct mindshare of consumers. Yatra.com has also been recognized as the most used travel
website by Juxt Consult in their India Online Survey 2008. In a recent survey released by
Brand Equity on Most Trusted Brands, Yatra.com emerged as the industry leader in the online
travel space leaving behind some of the well known players like Makemytrip, Cleartrip and
IRCTC.
 ELIZABETH HOLMES
Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American entrepreneur and inventor. She is the founder and CEO
of Theranos, a privately-held blood test company based in Palo Alto, California.
In 2015, Forbes named Holmes as the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world due to
a $9 billion valuation of Theranos. She was also named as TIME's "100 Most Influential People"
of 2015. In 2016, after a series of journalistic and regulatory investigations that questioned the
veracity of Theranos' claims, federal prosecutors began criminal investigations for potentially
misleading investors and the government about the company's blood-testing technology.
Following the revelation of potential fraud, Fortune named Holmes one of the "World's Most
Disappointing Leaders". In 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services banned
Holmes from owning, operating or directing a diagnostic lab for a period of two years. That
decision is under appeal.
Founding of Theranos
Holmes originally founded the company in Palo Alto, California as Real-Time Cures to
"democratize healthcare." Her goal was to make health information accessible to all people at
any time so that risk of disease and health conditions could be detected early on. In April 2004,
she incorporated the company as Theranos (an amalgam of "therapy" and "diagnosis") and rented
the basement of a group college house. At that time, Holmes hired her first employee and rented
lab space. Robertson became the company's first board member and introduced Holmes to
venture capitalists.
Funding and expansion
By December 2004, she had raised $6 million to fund Theranos. The company's first revenue
came from contracts Holmes established with pharmaceutical companies to conduct testing and
other clinical trials. By the end of 2010, Holmes had more than $92 million in venture capital for
Theranos. In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former Secretary of State George Shultz.
After a two hour meeting, he joined the Theranos board of directors. She was recognized for
forming "the most illustrious board in U.S. corporate history" over the next three years. Holmes
operated Theranos in stealth mode without press releases or a company website until September
2013 when the company announced a partnership with Walgreens to make in-store blood sample
collection centers.
Media attention increased in 2014 as she was on the cover of Fortune, Forbes, T: The New York
Times Style Magazine and Inc., who considered her "The Next Steve Jobs. Forbes recognized
Holmes as the world's youngest self-made female billionaire and ranked her #110 on the Forbes
400 in 2014. Theranos was valued at $9 billion with more than $400 million in venture
capital. By the end of 2014, she had 18 U.S. patents and 66 non-U.S. patents in her name.
During 2015, Holmes established agreements with Cleveland Clinic, Capital BlueCross and
AmeriHealth Caritas to use Theranos technology
 UPASANA TAKU

Finishing her schooling in Surat, Upasana Taku went on to National Institute of Technology,
Jalandhar for her B.Tech in Industrial Engineering, and, eventually, she did her MS in
Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, US.
However, by 2008, even though she had her corporate throne, she realized she no longer wanted
to be a corporate drone.
Wasting no time, Upasana was back to India by early 2009, meeting a lot of people, and soaking
in ideas about buzzing sectors and unresolved gaps.
Serendipitously, she happened to meet Bipin, her husband and co-founder, through a mutual
friend at the same time, and learnt that he was eager to startup in the same space, too. When he
took the plunge in August 2009, Upasana was testing the waters and helping him with certain
aspects of the business. Six months down, her confidence in the idea grew and Mobikwik had
started gaining traction, so, she joined mobikwik full-time as its co-founder.
Mobikwik was very simple and need-based. We launched mobikwik as a recharge platform and,
soon, it became the mobile wallet of every Indian. I take pride in saying that mobikwik was the
first mobile wallet of India,
Today, a millennial cannot imagine running down to a local shop for petty recharges,
and Mobikwik was part of this revolution.
Mobikwik has grown exceptionally, since Upasana first embarked on this stupendous journey in
2009. And shes kind enough to give us a trip down the memory lane, over the timeline of
everything, right from mobikwiks smallest joys to their biggest milestones.
We were growing at an exceptional pace and were 35-people-strong by the beginning of June
2012. In September 2012, we applied for RBIs PPI license and received it in July 2013, a
milestone for us, Upasana says
Today, mobikwik has over 35 million users and 1, 00,000 merchants on its platform.
Speaking of numbers, lets summarize Mobikwiks journey with pure numbers seven years. 35
million users. 100000 merchants. 25000 offline merchants. 2 million active daily users. 1-1.5 mn
daily transactions. 4000 daily bus ticket bookings. 250%yoy growth. Cash pickup in 5 cities -
New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Surat.
And the sails have been set for next year - GMV of $2 billion and a merchant base of 5, 00,000.
They plan to serve over 150 million users by 2018, and have introduced ancillary products, like
bus bookings, recharges, consumer loans etc. Users should be able to pay, borrow, save, invest,
all using mobikwik,
 RASHMI SINHA
Sinha was born in Lucknow, India.
Rashmi grew up in India and earned a PhD in cognitive neuropsychology at Brown University.
There, Rashmi took computer science courses with Andy van Dam, so she had some exposure to
the HCI (human-computer interaction) way of thinking. She took a course in designing
educational software. Rashmi Sinha went to University of California, Berkeley for a postdoc
where she switched her focus to human-computer interaction.
She has done PhD in Psychology from Brown University. She has done M.A. in Psychology and
B.A. from Allahabad University.
She then left academia at the University of California to start her own user-experience
consultancy. Deciding that she enjoyed practical problems more, she co-founded Uzanto, a user
experience consulting company and worked on projects for companies like eBay, Blue Shield,
AAA etc. Her first foray into products was with mind canvas game-like software for customer
research) released in November 2005.
Simultaneously, Rashmi and her husband, with the help of her older brother Amit Ranjan, built
slide share, a site for people to share presentations online, in just six months. Since its launch in
2006, more than 9 million presentations have been uploaded to slide share, helping professionals
connect through content. LinkedIn acquired slide share for over $100 million in 2012.

Sinha is married to Jonathan Boutelle, who is the co-founder and CTO of slide share. They live
in San Francisco.
In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Women Influencers in Web 2.0 by Fast
Company.
 INDU JAIN

Indu Jain, this 75 year old billionaire was born into Sahu Jain Family. According to a
magazine her fortune wealth is US $2.8 billion. She hails from a small town of
Najibabad, Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh. She is the chairwoman of Indias largest Media
Group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd which also owns The Times Group.

Media leading Bennett, Coleman & Co which was chaired by Indu Jain and it is teamed
up with Huffington Post to launch the Indian website in December. She also owns a
property portal magicbricks.com and simplymarry.com, a matrimonial site. But the
group famously known for its daily newspaper The Economic Times, which is the
worlds biggest financial newspaper after The Times of India (world's largest circulated
English newspaper), the Economic Times, FM Radio Mirchi, the Planet M music store
chain, the biweekly magazine Femina India, the Indiatimes portal, the 24 hours English
news channel Times Now, the Bollywood news and music channel Zoom are owned by
the Indu Jain family.

Indu Jain was married to Ashok Kumar Jain by whom she had two sons, Samir Jain,
Vineet Jain and a daughter. Her husband died on February 4, 1999 in Cleveland, United
States at age of 65, following a heart transplant on January 10.
 EKTA KAPOOR
Born on the 7th of June 1975; the queen of soap operas Ekta Kapoor is one woman who
needs no introduction!

The Director / Producer / Venture Capitalist / Businesswoman, presently acts as the Joint
Managing Director & Creative Director of her Bombay Stock Exchange listed Balaji
Telefilms

Completed over 15,000 hours of television content since inception.

At the age of 17 she made her first feature film which was a huge failure.

after completing her bachelors degree in Commerce, Ekta under the advice and financial
backing of her father, began her production house Balaji Telefilms, in 1994

Now although, she had began with huge hopes but unfortunately her first six telefilms
pilots and three filmed ventures had turned out to become drastic failures, and only in
1995, when she launched the television serial Hum Paanch, did she receive the much
needed success.

Balaji Telefilms has 3 Subsidiaries under its wing: Balaji Motion Pictures, ALT
Entertainment & BOLT Media Limited.

Since the very beginning; Balaji has produced many & highly popular soap operas, some
of include:

Hum Paanch,

Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi,

Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii,

Kasautii Zindagii Kay,

Kkusum,

Gumrah End Of Innocence,

Pavitra Rishta,

Bade Acche Lagte Hain,

Jodha Akbar, and many others

 And being in the movie industry as well, they have left behind their mark with some of
the highest grossing movies such as:

Kucch To Hai

Krishna Cottage

Kyaa Kool Hai Hum & Kyaa Super Kool Hai Hum,

Shootout at Lokhandwala & Shootout at Wadala

Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai & Once Upon a Time In Mumbaai Dobara

Shor in the City,

Ragini MMS & Ragini MMS 2

The Dirty Picture,

Ek Thi Daayan,

Shaadi Ke Side Effects,

Main Tera Hero and many more to come!

 DR. KIRAN MAZUMDAR SHAW
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian entrepreneur.

She is the chairwoman and managing director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company
based in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India and the chairperson of IIM-Bangalore.

In 2014, she was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal, for outstanding contributions to the progress
of science and chemistry. She is on the Financial Times top 50 women in business list. As of
2015, she was listed as the 85th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. At present in
2016, she has been listed one more time in "Forbes" - the most powerful woman in the world at
77th position.

She went to school at Bangalore's Bishop Cotton Girl's High School, graduating in 1968. She
studied biology and zoology, graduating from Bangalore University with a bachelors degree in
zoology in 1973. She worked as a trainee brewer in Carlton and United Breweries, Melbourne
and as a trainee master at Barrett Brothers and Burrstone, Australia. She also worked for some
time as a technical consultant at Jupiter Breweries Limited, Calcutta and as a technical manager
at Standard Malting Corporation, Baroda between 1975 and 1977

Before Mazumdar could move, she met Leslie Auchincloss, founder of Biocon Biochemical
Limited, of Cork, Ireland. Auchincloss's company produced enzymes for use in the brewing,
food-packaging and textile industries. Auchincloss was looking for an Indian entrepreneur to
help establish an Indian subsidiary. Mazumdar agreed to undertake the job on the condition that
if she did not wish to continue after six months she would be guaranteed a brew masters
position comparable to the one she was giving up.

After a brief period as a trainee manager at Biocon Biochemical Limited, of Cork, Ireland, to
learn more about the business, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw returned to India. She started Biocon India
in 1978 in the garage of her rented house in Bengaluru with a seed capital of Rs. 10,000. The
company's initial projects were the extraction of papain (an enzyme from papaya used to
tenderize meat) and isinglass (obtained from tropical catfish and used to clarify beer).

Within a year of its inception, Biocon India was able to manufacture enzymes and to export them
to the US and Europe, the first Indian company to do so. At the end of her first year, Mazumdar
used her earnings to buy a 20-acre property, dreaming of future expansion the partnership with
Unilever helped Biocon to establish global best practices and quality systems. In 2004,
Mazumdar-Shaw started a corporate social responsibility wing at Biocon, the Biocon
Foundation. The Foundation focuses on the areas of health, education and infrastructure,
especially in rural areas of Karnataka which lack healthcare facilities. Her work in the
biotechnology sector has earned her numerous national awards, including the Padma Shri (1989)
and the Padma Bhushan (2005) from the government of India.
 MEENA BINDRA
Meena Bindra an originator of Indias biggest instant ethnic-wear brand BIBA. Meena had
experienced childhood in Delhi however lost her dad at youthful age. After the passing of her
dad she wedded a maritime officer as an aftereffect of it she moved around crosswise over India,
and got into the articles of clothing business simply after her youngsters grew up.

As a 39-year-old housewife and mother of two youngster, she transformed her dreariness into
inventive wander and made it to genuine business with an underlying venture of just Rs.8,000
taken as credit from the bank. She started the salwar-kurta uprising in the nation and
consolidated the ladies from the North toward the South changing their dressing styles. The
Punjabi suit, as it used to be called, turned into an essential part of each ladys closet.

BIBA Apparels is established by Meena Bindra in 1988 from her home New Delhi. Then after
she first open BIBA store in Mumbai. In 2007 Kishore Biyanis Future Group gained 6.5% stake
in BIBA. In 2011 Future Group expanded speculation to 25.8%. In 2014 BIBA Apparels
procured a minimal stake in fashioner tag Anju Modi.

In October 2014, BIBA Apparels dispatched its own particular e-business entrance biba.in, to
impact the nations quickly developing e-trade space.

In 2002, BIBA tied up with Mukta expressions to reproduce originator dresses from four of its
motion pictures Taal, Yaadein, Pardes and Badhai Ho Badhai, therefore beating the
Merchandising film memorabilia of Indian business sector. It made its first move in Bollywood
marketing with its aggregation in Na tum Jaano Na Hum took after by numerous others including
blockbuster films, for example, Devdas, Hulchal and Baghban.

In Salman Khans and Kareena kapoor most recent motion picture, Bajrangi Bhaijan in Kareena
Kapoor is seen wearing BIBA outfits.

Straight from accepting the APEX Lifetime Achievement Award-2015, the chief grant of the
Indian attire industry given by the Clothing Manufacturers Association of India yearly, Meena
Bindra is on to vanquishing another enormous dream. I need BIBA to be a worldwide brand,
she says as the administrator of her trailblazing organization and would as much love to dispatch
her stores in Dubai and London.

Meena Bindra says When I began outlining garments as a side interest to win some take cash, I
never envisioned of turning into a specialist. However, today she feels she can develop to any
stature. On the off chance that you have the energy for something, do what needs to be done,
she says.

The yearly turnover of BIBA Apparels is likely at Rs.600 crores today.

 Shahnaz hussain

Shahnaz Husain is the daughter of the late Nasirullah Beg, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad
High Court. Beyond that, almost all the men of her family were either Chief Justices or Senior
Politicians.
She was born in Samarkhand, to a Royal Muslim family and because of an influential father and
family name, she got the opportunity to complete her schooling in an Irish convent school.
During that time, she developed a sudden inclination towards poetry and English Literature. in
1977, she first set up her own salon at her house in Delhi, by borrowing Rs.35,000 from her
father, but at the same time she also converted a veranda of her house into a clinic, as well. The
good thing was that, she already had the technology and the relevant gadgets from abroad.
And by introducing a totally new concept of care and cure, along with formulation of her own
Ayurvedic products, she began with Shahnaz Herbals Inc.
Since 1980 to 1982; was the time when Shahnazs popularity scaled to global level and some of
her achievements of that time included: -

Represent India at the CIDESCO World Beauty Congress in New York in 1980
Appointed as the President of the congress proceedings, at CIDESCO World Beauty Congress
Elected as the Chairman of I.T.E.C. International Beauty Congress in 1981
Represented India at the Cosmetics Fair at Brighton, U.K., in the same year
Elected Vice President Independent Professional Therapists International in 1982

But the real turning point in her career came when she represented India at the Festival of
India in 1980.
Not only did the sales they did there broke the cosmetic sales record at Selfridges, but also got
front-page articles on the Daily Telegraph with a headline saying, Herbal Hell Breaks Loose at
Selfridges, and followed by a BBC television interview on Shahnaz named Meet the Herbal
Hotline.

below mentioned are few of her achievements: -

Received the Bharat Nirman award (1989)
Received the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award for promoting Ayurveda and Herbalcare
(1995)
Received the Worlds Greatest Woman Entrepreneur Award by Success Magazine (1996)
Received the prestigious Padma Shree Award by the then President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(2006)
Received the Woman of the Year Udyog Ratan Award by the Government of India (2006) for
promoting exports
Harpreet kaur

Love 4 Apple is the third venture of the serial entrepreneur Harpreet Kaur Sapra. She joined
System 3 Net Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in December 2000 and since then has been a part of all the
ventures that she has headed with her husband Gagandeep Singh Sapra.

Love4Apple was started in 2013. It came about to address the lack of good and genuine
accessories for Apple products in India. It started out as an experiment with just a few products
picked up from various brands across the world and eventually became the sole distributer for a
very reputed speaker brand. It has also setup a manufacturing unit for self made iPhone and iPad
covers, and has a full line of covers designed by upcoming artists - giving them a platform to
exhibit their art and make money from it.

"Business was in my blood. All i ever wanted to do was work for myself, deal with new
challenges everyday and learn from them, fall down a couple of times, dust myself and start all
over again," says Sapra.