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Narelle Plapp on persistence, passion and patience

With food intolerances on the rise, business opportunities are ripe for the picking by entrepreneurs who are savvy enough to spot them. Narelle Plapp saw her chance to enter the health food market back in 2005, and now runs a global multi-million dollar operation.

Lorna Brett · 2 min
Entrepreneur

Overcoming depression to build a $2m business

Billie Goat Soap may have become a household name for its curative abilities, but as founder Leanne Faulkner will tell you, building the $2 million business wasn’t an easy ride.

Lorna Brett · 2 min
Entrepreneur

A fighting fit business mind

When Diana Williams opened the first Fernwood gym in 1989, she thought she was setting herself up with a new hobby. Williams never expected her pastime would attract more than 68,000 members and generate over $100 million in turnover.

Lorna Brett · 2 min
Advice

Get a handle on the GFC: How two entrepreneurs did

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Handle Your Own PR founders Jules Brooke and Simone Heydon, who took the loss of clients during the GFC and turned the bad luck into a thriving new business.

Lorna Brett · 2 min
Entrepreneur

Dell celebrates female founders and entrepreneurs in New Delhi

Fifteen female entrepreneurs from Australia were part of an exclusive group of 149 women from 11 countries at the third annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Event this week, including our woman on the ground Valerie Khoo,

Valerie Khoo · 2 min
Entrepreneur

Table of Plenty’s Kate Weiss takes home Women of Style award

Dynamic Business magazine May cover star and Table of Plenty founder Kate Weiss won top honours in the business category of the InStyle and Audi Women of Style awards this week.

Lorna Brett · 2 min
Entrepreneur

The young entrepreneur tackling women’s business

Aimee Marks is taking on the big guys with TOM Organic tampons, and at just 25 years of age, has had some stunning successes.

Rhiannon Sawyer · 2 min
Entrepreneur

Emma Isaacs: One smart chick

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Emma Isaacs, the owner of the country’s most loved and successful networking businesses, Business Chicks.

Lorna Brett · 2 min
Entrepreneur

Online jewellery entrepreneur shining example of business smarts

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features Pascale Helyar-Moray, the founder of revolutionary website StyleRocks, which allows jewellery-lovers to create customised pieces to match their tastes.

Lorna Brett · 2 min
Entrepreneur

T2 founder wins coveted business woman award

International Women’s Day saw T2 founder and CEO Maryanne Shearer named the Australian winner of the 2012 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award.

Gina Baldassarre · 2 min
Locked

Veuve Clicquot Business Woman award finalists named

Lorna-Jane Clarkson, OzHarvest’s Ronni Kahn and T2 CEO Maryanne Shearer are amongst the five finalists named for the 2012 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman awards.

Lorna Brett · 2 min