Emma G
2 stories
photograph
Entrepreneur ◆
Margot Spalding: Keeping Jimmy Possum local helps us thrive
Jimmy Possum was started by Margot Spalding and her family in a shed they could barely afford. Now the furniture business turns over $25 million annually. Spalding, winner of the Telstra Business Woman of the Year, tells us what it took to successfully grow Jimmy Possum, while keeping it a local business. Margot Spalding’s approach […]
Emma G · 2 min
photograph
Entrepreneur ◆
The MyDiary of Louisa Wood, from Get Positive Productions
The school diary was basic and boring until Louisa Wood decided to do something creative and enterprising about it. Winning the Nescafe Big Break, Wood received the capital she needed to start Get Positive Productions and publish MyDiary. Louisa Wood’s businesses have never really left the schoolyard. First there were the homemade scrunchies in Year […]
Emma G · 2 min