Sunday 6 October 2013

Successful Entrepreneurs.

     Look around. There isn't a single country in the world that doesn't have 95 percent of its companies run by men. For me, some women have better quality than men.



    Kathy Ireland is an American actress, model, designer and entrepreneur. She was born on March 20, 1963 in Glendale, California. She is very successful woman of our times.

   Ireland was a supermodel from 1980s to 1990s, best known for appearing in 13 consecutive Sport Illustrated swimsuit issues. In 1993, Ireland started developing what would become her business empire. She took out $50000 to put her name on a line of socks for Kmart. In the first year, the retail company has achieved $80000, which became bestseller. The retailer subsequently gave her own clothing line. She then founded Kathy Ireland Worldwide (kiWWW), initially a brand product marketing firm in which she and her related trusts own in its entirety. Since 1994, Kathy Ireland has published several fitness videos that led to her design of athletic apparel and was an entree into her brand licensing of fitness equipment a well.

      In 2004, Ireland's annual take was thought to be around $10 million, which prompted Forbes to name her the "prototype for model-turned-mogul," in an article about the trend of modelpreneurs. By 2004, Kathy Ireland Worldwide was marketing products from 16 manufacturers, including those of Shaw Industries and Pacific Coast Lighting. By 2005, Kathy Ireland Worldwide products were sold at over 50,000 locations in 15 countries, generating an estimated $1.4 billion in retail sales. According to a February 27, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine, featuring Kathy Ireland on the cover, her product line now sells some $2 Billion annually at retail License Global Magazine named Kathy Ireland Worldwide, the 28th most powerfully licensed brand. According to Fair child Publications, Kathy Ireland is one of the 50 most influential people in fashion.


     "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness", said by Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was born on January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14 and her son died in infancy. She moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon who is a barber and businessman.

      Winfrey entered Tennessee State University in 1971 and began working in radio and television broadcasting in Nashville. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated. Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream. By the mid 1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and an emotion-centered approach she is often praised for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others.

     In 2009, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be ending her program when her contract with ABC ended. Soon after, she moved to her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint venture with Discovery Communications.

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