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Webinar: Better business for female entrepreneurs

Feb 05 2008

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There are roughly 620,000 majority women owned businesses in the UK, making female businesses the fastest growing section of the UK’s small businesses

This web video or webinar, produced as part of Small Business Week at the end of last year, sees Maxine Benson, co-founder of Everywoman, Beatriz Butsana-Sita, director of BT Business, and Julie White, owner of Truly Madly Baby, discuss women-owned businesses and the £130 billion turnover they generate each year in the UK.

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