Josephine Philips (Founder, SOJO) Josephine Philips launched SOJO in 2021 as the UK’s first clothing repair and alterations app. The London-based fashion-tech platform is re-inventing the clothing repair and tailoring industry, and has just teamed up with Marks and Spencer’ – one of the biggest and most long standing British brands – to offer a much sought-after repair service! Today, any person across the UK can book a repair on their M&S clothing, powered by SOJO. Says Josephine: For them [Marks & Spencer] to bring a repair service to all of their customers is such a big step for us at SOJO…
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Three-time Founder and Venture Coach, Tola Alade, is an entrepreneurial maverick with extensive experience in founding and scaling innovative companies across various industries that include the creative, media, and technology spaces. Tola saw a gap in the UK’s £1.17 billion rum market—a need for something fresh, something that speaks to people who are tired of the same old pirate-themed rums. He knew DÒDÒ could fill that gap as a challenger, and on April 01, as an April Fool’s joke, his company Marmalade Ventures announced the launch of Plantain-infused Brandy (now Rum). Tola Alade (Founder, Marmalade Ventures – creators of DÒDÒ,…
🎥 Onyeka Okonkwo Onyeka Okonkwo is a Risk Manager who also writes about money, career, and self development . She describes herself as a Knowledge Fairy 😊 In her viddeo, Onyeka shares what she says are three unconventional practices helped her skip away from feelings of helplessness and being stuck, into living her best life. Onyeka hopes her tips may come in handy for un-knotting those moments of uncertainty that life sometimes throws our way. Interesting Read: How to Get Out of a Rut in 8 Steps [Masterclass] Numeris Média is officially accredited media to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Audrey Joe-Ezigbo is the Deputy Managing Director of Falcon Corporation Ltd., a company co-founded by herself and her husband in 1994. In its 29+ years of existence, Falcon (and the Falcon brand) has been recognised as a multiple award-winning, wholly indigenous mid- and downstream Energy, Natural Gas sistribution and LPG trading company in Africa, enabling the deployment of Natural Gas and LPG as drivers of economic growth and industrialisation. In this video clip, Audrey says: Putting too much faith in someone else nearly cost us our business. That experience was a wake-up call. We realised that taking ownership of our…
Every holiday season, ever-roaming Africans have asked us (Bank & Entrepreneur Africa) to do a piece on gastronomy. Their question is simple: ‘Where exactly can we find African food vendors when we travel across the UK and the US?’And so we have chosen to start with Atlanta (USA). Why?Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) holds the distinction of being the busiest airport in the world, linking 150+ destinations and major hubs like New York City and London (United Kingdom). Many of these passengers are Africans, searching for soul food while away from home. Our Special Report on 50 African Foodpreneurs will provide distinct…
(R-L): Demi Samande (Founder & Creative Director, Majeurs Furnitire); Senator Tokunbo Abiru ( representing the Lagos East Senatorial District at the 9th Nigerian National Assembly); Ajibola Ponnle (Founder, Human Investment Group, Africa) Architect Demi Samande is the Founder and Creative Director of Majeurs Furniture – an interior décor company originally founded in London, which specialises in upholstery, restoration and production of fabric and leather furniture. Recently, Majeurs Holdings had the pleasure of hosting leading human capacity development organisation, the Human Investment Group Africa (HIG) on a tour of Majeurs’ exceptional training academy, whose production facility is dedicated to developing the next…
Throw back to Q2 2023: 1000 Black Voices, in partnership with the British Consulate, led Founders on a Trade Missions to Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA). Pictured 1000 Black Voices founder, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (4h R) and the delegation on a visit to Plug and Play, San Francisco Bay Area The 1000 Black Voices trade mission is headed to San Francisco! During the five-day sector agnostic mission (28 October – 1 November 2024), Founders will have access to: Build lasting connections through group sessions and events to develop relationships with the investor community. Gain the knowledge needed of how to land…
Every child matters to Funmilola Adedap-Rotimi who is a certified Art Educator with over seven years’ experience in the teaching industry Funmilola is the founder of cr8tivehand, a not-for-profit organisation that organizes FREE arts and crafts workshops for children in both low- and high income communities 😊😊 On their latest outreach to Baptist nursery and primary school, Funmilola had this to say about the children’s foray into creating colour-splash apparel: THEY ARE NOT TIE DYE O 🤩🤩🤩They are all colour splashed with paintToday, 15th August 2024, cr8tivehand visited Impact maker Baptist nursery and primary school …We trained over 60 pupils…
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (Funder, Future Africa) Iyinoluwa Aboyeji – brilliant entrepreneur and 2 x founder of unicorns Andela and Flutterwave, says: If you are a startup founder who wants to build a healthy, growing company in these perilous times my sincere advice is to drop whatever you are doing and attend this fireside chat.Jonathan Ruwanika CA(SA) who I fondly call my startup IMF has saved several startups from the claws of death by helping them achieve financial fitness through tight controls and a relentless focus on unit economics so they can cut their fat and grow lean and profitable yet scalable,…
(L-R): Tola Odeyemi (NIPOST Postmaster General) and Charles Odii (SMEDAN Director-General) Logistics and transportation costs in Africa are among the most expensive in the world. These high costs hurt businesses of all sizes, including the growing number of vendors and traders selling online. In a bid ease the cost of doing business for smaller size businesses, the Small & Medium Enterprises Association of Nigeria (SMEDAN) have just signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) to offer SMEs registered nationwide with SMEDAN a 15% discount on logistics. The discount comes into effect on Monday, August 26, and will be…