Women-owned businesses represent 42% of all businesses yet 4.3% revenue

ATLANTA,  To kick off the excursion purchasing season, The Greater Women's Business Council (GWBC) is encouraging customers to Buy Women Owned and assist guide women-owned companies throughout the United States.

 

Beginning with National Women's Small Business Month in October and constructing momentum into November for vacation shopping, GWBC is becoming a member of forces with WBENC – the Women's Business Enterprise National Council to assist the #BuyWomenOwned movement, aimed at fueling monetary restoration and bringing about a diverse, balanced and sustainable economy.

"Women-owned corporations symbolize 42% of all organizations and but solely 4.3% of all complete enterprise revenue, in accordance to an American Express women-owned commercial enterprise study. This capability we have a large probability to stimulate monetary increase by using opening our wallets and shopping for female owned in our personal communities," stated Roz Lewis, president & CEO of GWBC.

To aid women-owned companies in its place of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, GWBC has developed a listing proposing a extensive range of merchandise from GWBC-certified women-owned businesses. With gadgets ranging from sugar scrubs to pimento cheese dips, shoppers can locate some thing to go well with something they might also want or want. The listing can be accessed at gwbc.org/women-owned-business/.

From daily objects to special meals and gifts, these 4 organizations characterize simply a few of the listings in GWBC's sturdy directory, created to assist buyers purchase women-owned.

Black Mermaid's Bath & Body

Denise Zannu commenced as a "kitchen chemist," making herbal merchandise for co-workers, buddies and family. Using her understanding of herbs and aromatherapy, she crafted creations that have been more healthy for their pores and skin and extended their emotional well-being. Years later, Zannu targeted her ardour and power to launch Black Mermaid's Bath & Body, primarily based in Snellville, Georgia. The company's cause is assist humans have healthy, stunning pores and skin – naturally.

Callie's Hot Little Biscuit

Carrie Morey centered her handmade biscuit commercial enterprise in 2005 with the intention of making the tender, buttery, made-by-hand biscuits that her mom made available throughout the country. Over 15 years later, Callie's Hot Little Biscuit, is broadly identified as an iconic Southern company with countrywide retail publicity and a cult-like following. Her grab-and-go eateries have 4 places in Charleston, Atlanta, and Charlotte; as nicely as a meals truck that travels throughout the lowcountry.

Green Sprouts

Becky Cannon's curiosity about how youngsters can attain their full practicable stimulated her to begin Green Sprouts, Inc., in Asheville, North Carolina in 1982. Today, Becky's daughters Emi and Mari be a part of her as co-owners of Green Sprouts, and the company's mission is the equal nowadays as it used to be over 35 years in the past – to furnish healthful and sensible merchandise for the well-being and entire improvement of children and children, alongside with sources for parenting naturally.

MyThreeSons Gourmet

Growing up in the South, Dr. Cheryl Mitchell Barnett, a retired orthodontist and founder of MyThreeSons Gourmet,  realized about rich, home made pimento cheese from her first-class friend's mother, Emmy, whose "pinch of this, pinch of that" philosophy stimulated Dr. Cheryl to craft her personal exclusive pimento cheese recipe – mild on mayo and heavy on more sharp cheddar cheese. When a serious returned harm compelled her into early retirement from orthodontics, Dr. Cheryl had to reinvent herself and MyThreeSons Gourmet was once born. Since 2010, the Greensboro, North Carolina-based organisation has produced homemade-style pimento cheese, the use of solely the high-quality ingredients, with no synthetic flavors, colors, or preservatives.

"Women-owned groups proceed to be a pressure throughout the U.S, with the annual boom fee of the range of women-owned corporations greater than double that of all businesses," stated Lewis. "Now, these girls corporations want our help extra than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit women-owned corporations specifically hard, so we're asking all and sundry to assist revitalize these groups with the aid of the use of our Women Owned listing or buying anywhere they see the Women Owned emblem on storefronts, web sites and products."