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| 04 Oct 2007 02:56:42 pm |
 Guilt Free Treats from Sahar Hashemi's new brand |
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Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic, and great speaker on being entrepreneurial has recently sold 50% of her new venture 'Skinny Candy' to the big confectionery company Glisten plc.
Sahar started her new brand 'Skinny Candy' a range of low sugar and sugarfree sweets and chocolate from her kitchen table two years ago and has sold half of it for £75,000 to Glisten. Customers already include Selfridges, Harvey Nicholls, Top Shop, Waitrose and Coffee Repiblic stores.
Sahar will be staying on board with the brand to help Glisten to continue to grow it. As a consequence, she is now in a position to talk about intrapreneurship i.e. being an entrepreneur as part of a large organisation, adding another string to her speaking bow!
Glisten Chief Executive, Paul Simmonds, believes consumers still want great tasting chocolate and sweet treats but a rising number of people now insist on some additional functional benefits and ideally some element of guilt-free self indulgence. He feels Skinny Candy is an excitign brand with a fantastic young image and real consumer relevance, which will allow Glistne to capitalise on the well-being trend.
Well done Sahar - guilt free treats all round! |
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| 04 Oct 2007 02:44:35 pm |
| Rita Payne - BBC World's Asia Today Programme - joins Select |
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Select is delighted to announce that we can take bookings for Rita Payne. Rita Payne is BBC World’s Asia Editor, and directly responsible for the daily editions of BBC World’s Asia Today Programme.
Asian decision-makers from all fields – politics, literature, medicine, sport and business feature on Asia Today, reflecting the variety in contemporary Asian life as broadly as possible. Presidents and Prime Ministers from Asia are regularly interviewed.
Born in India, Rita began her career in journalism on All India Radio and moved to the UK after marrying a British architect. She joined the BBC in 1979 and began her career as a sub-editor in the World Service radio newsroom. She was soon promoted to chief sub-editor, duty editor and senior journalism instructor, and reported for both radio and television.
From 1991 to 1994, Rita was one of the regular presenters of a flagship current affairs radio programme, South Asia Report, and she also presented a wide range of shows on BBC World Service radio and BBC Radio 4.
In May 2005, Rita was a finalist in the Media Professional of the Year category at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in London.
Because of her work Rita has an excellent view or world affairs and the global picture. She talks abaout her views and also about herself and her road to becoming the Editor of BBC World's Asia network.
If you would like to book Rita please contact Carol@select-speakers.com or telephone: 00 44 1600 712387. |
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