Women In Business

The Nanny industry isn’t one that is given the spotlight often, overlooked by many when discussing entrepreneurs and business movers. Hope Skinner noticed this, and decided to take action.

What about business match-ups? It’s the question that drove entrepreneur Jessica Ruhfus to create Collabosaurus, a start-up simplifying the “hustling” and research process for businesses looking to collaborate with other brands.

As many entrepreneurs would recognise, Suzi Devine’s drive to business came from finding a gap in the industry. In her case, it was the wine industry.

A self-funded investment of $5,000 kick-started what would become a fixture in the jewellery sector, Bowerhaus. The homegrown company’s future would see worldwide expansion, a loyal following, a focus on charity work, and a partnership to bring a fundraising event to Kirribilli House. Upon graduating from design school, Elizabeth Lee joined her sister in a […]

Friends since their early teens, the two future entrepreneurs talked constantly about making a business. It was a dream. It became a reality.

Anna Mitsios has been making waves in the beauty and health industry since pushing her idea of making beauty products so pure…they were actually “edible”.

The beauty industry is one of the most competitive, add to that the struggle of standing out in a crowded community of online retailers, and it’s downright rare to find an entrepreneur that has succeeded in both areas like Kate Morris.

It was a business inspired by the passion of its founder and the quest to provide a new sense of meaning and purpose in challenging times.

An ASIC report has been analysed by commercial credit reporting bureau CreditorWatch, and the findings have identified key learnings that may benefit SMEs and business owners.

Some entrepreneurs dream of having a business that not only makes money, but that can also fulfil their desire to help others. Social entrepreneur Kimi Anderson has managed to do just that.

Follow your dreams. It may sound like a cliché, but that’s exactly what this successful mother and business owner did.

The ‘motherhood penalty’ is a major factor in Australia’s gender pay gap and an issue that must be addressed with greater urgency, the Diversity Council Australia has said.

Sipping chardonnay and looking out across rows of perfectly manicured grape vines doesn’t quite compute with the day-to-day reality of running a vineyard. Not to mention an on-site winery, cellar door, and restaurant.

Statistics consistently demonstrate an under-representation of women working in IT – and limited improvement in the number of girls entering these fields after school.

Starting out as a boutique makeup brush brand 12 years ago, the chance meeting between an Australian entrepreneur and a makeup artist in London preceded the complete transformation of an Australian brand.

Five years ago when Canada hosted the G20, Toronto-based Farah Mohamed, the President & CEO of the G(irls)20 Summit, was determined to see her then brand new idea be a success.

Juliet Rosser believes in supporting Australian artists. So much so that she set up a business to promote their work and better engage the public with the arts sector.

The incidence of “female breadwinner” households is slowly rising with women out-earning their male partners in nearly a quarter of long-term relationships.

Australia has placed second among 30 countries as one of the best places for female entrepreneurship.

At a time when even major fashion labels are struggling, Sandradee Makejev has taken her burgeoning retail business – St Frock – to enviable heights, with turnover growing by 2400 per cent between February and December 2013.