Joie de VIVRE
May 20, 2019
4 minutes
COMPILED BY JOSIE EVELEIGH
Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Catherine Davies has always preferred to pave her own way. Although she qualified as a lawyer, she found the legal profession rather confining and started looking for an opportunity to establish her own company. Luckily, she didn’t have to look far.
Inspired by the vineyards and wine-making industry surrounding the Franschhoek farm her family moved to 16 years ago, her two brothers Oliver and Richard founded Vendange (meaning grape harvest), a retail chain selling cheese and baguette boards, wine crates and Champagne buckets, as well as olive oil and other gourmet foods.
“It struck me that what their range needed was something more feminine,” says
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