NAME

: TAMIZHARASI.P
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III BBA (RETAIL

MANAGEMENT)
SUBJECT

ENTREPRENEURIAL
DEVELOPMENT

TOPIC

SUCCESSFUL WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA

SHAHNAZ HUSAIN :

She is known as the Queen of Herbal Beauty Care. She was married off at
the age of 16. But her interest in beauty and cosmetic made her discover Shahnaz
Herbals Inc. The company is best known for its herbal cosmetics particularly skin
care products without animal testing. The company has over 400 Franchise
clinics across the world covering 138 countries. She has been bestowed with the
Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 2006 and Worlds Greatest
Woman Entrepreneur award by 1996 Success Magazine.
Shahnaz Husain is an Indian Entrepreneur.Read Shahnazs Profile and Biography here.An
inspiring women entrepreneur with a steadily growing market all over the world, Shahnaz
Husain has been proving to the world through her life that the spirit of entrepreneurship, passion

and hard work are enough to realise ones dreams. Her biography penned by her daughter
Nelofar called Flame: The story of my mother Shahnaz Husain too is an enlivening work for
many.

CHILDHOOD AND MARRIAGE:

Born in a royal Muslim family, Husain was introduced to both modern schooling as well
as traditions. She got married at a tender age of 16 and gave birth to a daughter within a year.
However, the monotony of her life made her do something more than a housewife.

STEPPING STONE: COSMETOLOGY AND BEAUTY TREATMENTS:

It was during her husbands posting in Iran that she realized her keen interest in beauty
and cosmetology. She pursued it with great passion in many leading institutes like Helena
Rubinstein, Arnould Taylor, Swarzkopf , Christine Valmy, Lancome and Lean of Copenhagen
and

supported

her

education

by

writing

for

the

Iran

Tribune.

She realized that chemical treatments are harmful and have long lasting negative effects. She was
thus attracted towards the ancient treasure of Ayurveda.
She came up with many natural Ayurvedic chemical free products for beauty care. She
firmly believes in the power of care and cure of the nature than chemicals.

THE TURNING POINT-SALOON TO SHAHNAZ HUSAIN HERBAL INC :

She started her saloon on a humble budget of Rs 35000/- in Delhi and soon she was
booked for 6 months in advance. She stopped advertising her services thereafter as she believed
firmly in the word of mouth publicity by satisfied customers.
Turning point came in her career when she was given an opportunity to represent India in
London during The Festival of India in 1980.Her products created a huge stir and soon she
captured a huge market there.

DIVERSIFICATION:

Husain expanded her consumer base by entering the retail markets in 1990s.Her new
below Rs 250 range is targeted towards the masses which is a very lucrative market segment.
The Shahnaz group has diversified into health resorts, spas as well as low calorie health drinks.

INNOVATION BEYOND PLANET-INTO SPACE:

It seems that nothing is unconquerable for Husain. She has recently come up with her
innovative products for skin care in space. She has contacted NASA with her product samples for
market testing.

CONTROVERSIES:
Even though she has always been in the limelight for positive reasons, but she still has
seen her share of controversies when her only son Sameer Husain died under mysterious
circumstances in Patna on January 6, 2008.Rabiya Husain, Sameer s wife lodged a 40 page
complaint against Shehnaz charging her for dowry and allegedly blaming her for her sons death.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS:

Shahnaz has a long list of recognition in her kitty; a few of them are

She was awarded Padma Shree in 2006 from President Dr.Abdul Kalam.

She has been honoured with two prestigious international awards for Quality Excellence
and Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur 2002, by Global Quality Management, in London.

Awarded The 2000 Millennium Medal of Honor.

Awarded the Arch of Europe Gold Star Award for Quality.

She was awarded the Golden America Award and the Indian Government Awards for
Export Excellence.

She was awarded Success Magazines Worlds Greatest Woman Entrepreneur award in
1996.

SUCHI MUKHERJEE

When you talk of women entrepreneurs, there are only a handful of

them in our country. The recent wave of new change that our country is
overseeing,

this

phenomenon

women entrepreneur who

has

is

changing.

been

Suchi

constantly

Mukherjee,

proving

with

a
her

achievements that it is completely not a gender based space where a few

years ago only males dominated. Who is Suchi Mukherjee? You must be
wondering. Suchi Mukherjee is the founder of LimeRoad website, which lets

you discover, share and shop women lifestyle products. Suchi Mukherjee wiki
will further tell you about her journey throughout her life, her struggles, her
career, and other interesting facts about Suchi Mukherjee.

SUCHI MUKHERJEE BIRTH

Suchi Mukherjee date of birth is a little unclear but she was born in the
year 1973 and was 39 year old when she founded her famous fashion portal
for women I.e. Limeroad.com. From a young age, she has been involved in
scaling up many businesses and starting some on her own, which is quite
ambitious for a person like her. Suchi Mukherjee birthday has always been a
sumptuous affair among her elite friends and family.

SUCHI MUKHERJEE FAMILY BACKGROUND

Suchi Mukherjee belongs to a middle class family from Haryana. Since she had been
married and went on to work at some of the great companies we know, even founding her own, it
has been a dream life for her. Suchi Mukherjee family now consists of her husband, two kids and
herself. Her parents must have played a huge role in her success, and so must her husband, Suchi
Mukherjee family have contributed highly in what she is today.

SUCHI MUKHERJEE EDUCATION

Suchi Mukherjee has sought education from the famed University of Cambridge and
London School of Economics. Suchi Mukherjee completed her bachelor in arts specializing in
economics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She has learned all the trades of
business by doing her masters in economics and finance from one of the most prestige business
schools in the world which is London School of Economics. The biography of Suchi Mukherjee
details more of her personal as well as professional life, keep reading.

SUCHI MUKHERJEE PERSONAL LIFE

For a business woman like Suchi Mukherjee, her work life and personal life is hard to
differentiate. She tries to give enough time to her family as well as friends even in her ultra busy
startup life. Suchi Mukherjee net worth is not disclosed in the media however it must be quite
high considering her stature as a founder of a successful startup and previous employee in some
of the best companies in the world. Suchi Mukherjee contact details are the ones given on the
LimeRoad website as well as in her LinkedIn profile, you can mail her. Suchi Mukherjee
biography further shows how she went on from working in various companies to founding one
on her own.

SUCHI MUKHERJEE CAREER

With such a brilliant portfolio of companies under her belt, Suchi Mukherjee
success story might seem as if everything happened overnight without any struggle.
The reality is completely different; she too had to face ups and downs throughout her
professional life. At first being a part of newly formed companies to scale them up and
making them global and starting a company of her own which has become highly
successful is no easy job. After completing her bachelors and masters degree from
University of Cambridge and London School of economics respectively, she soon
started working as a professional right after completing her studies.
She started working at Lehman Brothers Inc. in 1998 in a position of
Senior Associate for Corporate Finance. It was Suchi Mukherjee first job in her
career. She worked there for 5 years until moving on to her next company in
her career. She focused highly on Telecoms Media technology and Financial
Institutions while she worked there. After leaving the company with a rich
experience, she moved on to work with Virgin Media from June 2003 as a
Director of Change and Business Development. Also, she was highly
consumer focused in Virgin Media and was a member of Consumer Division
Management Team.

She worked with Virgin media for 2 whole years and then switched over her career path
again to eBay, which was one of the best e-commerce platforms available. With eBay, she learnt
many skills that would later be handy in her own venture. Also this change in companies helped
her work in diversified conditions across many companies. In the year 2006, Skype was a part of
eBay then, which is now property of Microsoft. With the phenomenal work she did, Suchi
Mukherjee was soon promoted to Director and Member of Executive Management Team of
Skype. She oversaw the major overhaul that Skype went through in its earlier stage and made it
what it is now. There were structural concerns over the company as 3 CEOs were changed in
mere 2 years.
After empowering Skype with her skills, she was again promoted to a position of
Managing Director of Gumtree, which was a child company of eBay Inc. After all this years, she
had become reliant enough to start something on her own and take it off. She took Gumtree to
great heights and made it a market leader in UK. After successfully handling companies of this
scale, she set out to do something of her own and founded LimeRoad, which is her own venture.
She is also the CEO of LimeRoad website. It has received various rounds of funding and can
sustain the business as it is now which is highly commendable as very few startups become
successful.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SUCHI MUKHERJEE

1.

She lifted the company Gumtree from No.3 to No.1 in a matter of few
years.

2.

She started her working career at a young age of 22 in Lehman

Brothers Inc.

3.

She was one of the most promoted people in eBay Inc because of her
brilliant managerial and business skills.

SUCHI MUKHERJEE LOVE LIFE

Is Suchi Mukherjee Married? Yes, she is. Though there is not much information about
Suchi Mukherjee husband but she is happily married having her own family. Talking about Suchi
Mukherjee children, she has two kids. Suchi Mukherjee dating someone was all false news as we
never came to know about Suchi Mukherjee boyfriend. She has been happily married from a past
few years and living in Haryana with her family. This was all about the life of Suchi Mukherjee.
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RICHA KAR Zivame.com

The woman behind the largest Indian lingerie online portal understood the need of the market.
Richa Kar speaks about her journey and on being a young female entrepreneur.

She said, Most shops did not keep all the sizes, and smaller shops have male salesman making it
really difficult for a woman to convey what she really needs. For a woman, it is quite
embarrassing to step into a lingerie store, and have the salesman or girl scan you and say 'madam
34 B will fit you.'

She further said, "I wanted to change the way Indian women bought lingerie
by offering them an entirely different and enjoyable shopping experience.
Every woman, no matter her size or shape, deserves well fitting and sexy
lingerie; and with Zivame I hope to give her that."

RICHA KAR SUCCESS STORY, STARTUPS

The Indian first lingerie website founder Richa Kar has entered the haloed club of successful
Indian female entrepreneurs which is no easy job. As they say, no pain no gain is apt to be quoted
here. Her first startup idea was born out of her realization from a research she was conducting in
her then job, that lingerie in India was more a bottleneck for women than and experience. That is
when she decided to become the founder of Zivame. The name of the company comes from a
Hebrew word Ziva meaning brilliant and the me was added on by her.
She opened the first bra shopping website in India. Most of her contact details like email id can
be found in her LinkedIn account. Zivame is an online bra store that opened in 2011 and till date
has achieved in acquiring 5 million customers. Unlike Suchi Mukherjee she decided to go ad

open up new possibilities in an entirely new niche. Although there was some speculation
regarding the success of her company, it has taken up well and change consumer buying behavior
over the past few years.

The biography of Zivame founder mentions how fearless one needs to be to enter the club of
successful women entrepreneurs in India. She has broken the taboos of society and has launched
the quirky Zivame bra advertisements as well. The website sells panties and lingerie. Of all sort
and types like backless bra and bikini collections. Other than various panty set, the site also has a
collection of pajamas, boxers, housecoats, etc.