43. Susan Williams
Company: The Finishing Touch
Established: 1994
Revenue: $3 million*
Susan Williams helps customers with one of the most painful things in life – moving house. "I was working as a consultant for a national removals business and saw that clients were looking for additional levels of service that was not being met by the industry, which tended to be transport and storage focussed. Our business has expanded from initially providing unpacking services to now providing packing, unpacking and moving advice."
Her advice for female entrepreneurs is to do your research, understand your strengths and weaknesses and hire well. "Our staff are everything, they will work for you not for money but because they share your passion, energy and direction."
44. Carmelina Pascoe
Company: My Coffee Shop
Established: 2003
Revenue: $2.56 million
Carmelina and Mark Pascoe founded the My Coffee Shop franchise and provided business and domestic clients with automatic coffee machines, coffee and tea supplies and premium services. The company is Australia-wide, with a focus on Melbourne and Sydney.
45. Ariana Hendry
46. Anthea Hendry
Company: Hypoxi Australia
Established: 2006
Revenue: $2.4 million
Sisters Ariana Hendry and Anthea Hendry's health and weight loss business is based around exercise equipment that helps improve circulation and kick start the body into metabolising fat. The sisters hold the licences for Australia and now have a network of 40 locations nationally.
47. Sophie Macdonald
Company: Skye Recruitment
Established: 2006
Revenue: $2.27 million
Sophie and Kye Macdonald's recruitment company focuses on the civil construction, building, civil engineering, mining, and oil and gas markets. Sophie says the firm has tried to build an edge over its competition by using two in-house software developers to keep Skye on the cutting edge of back-office technologies.
48. Annette Sym
Company: Symply Too Good
Established: 1997
Revenue: $1.21 million
Annette Sym's Symply Too Good To Be True cookbooks, which feature healthy, low-fat recipes, have sold more than three million copies in Australia. Her sixth self-published book will launch in late April.
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