Our Financial Institutions Do Not Have Confidence in Women
Felicia Twumasi, CEO, Homefoods Limited, a leading Ghanaian entrepreneur, shares with Amazons Watch Magazine, in an exclusive interview, her inspiring entrepreneurship journey- from a big dream at a tabletop in a kitchen in 1995 to a high-scale ethnic food processing and packaging company, with a distribution network across The United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, North America and West Africa, and export sales increasing into multi-million dollars per annum. However, it is interesting to note that this successful businesswoman faced quite a number of challenges along this journey, other than racial and gender discrimination. Excerpt:
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