To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, we asked you for nominations of female entrepreneurs or businesswomen whose work, projects, attitude or perseverance you admired; here, we meet eight of them and discover their Hong Kong stories!
Nana
Nana Chan is a tea lover whose business, Plantation (plantation.hk), aims to introduce the pleasures of tea drinking to as many people as possible.
Read the full story here.
Lavisha & Rajvi
Lavisha Balani and Rajvi Jhaveri run a marketing agency called Social Baos (@socialbaos).
Read the full story here.
Elizaveta
Elizaveta Kosareva is the founder of Kosandra Sports (kosandrasports.com), which teaches inline skating, rollerblading and more general sports skills to kids.
Read the full story here.
Renu
Renu Malani is an independent importer of Avon UK and other British products to Hong Kong (facebook.com/AvonInDB).
Read the full story here.
Rhian & Cat
Rhian Widdowson and Catherine McKay are teachers at Academy Of Dance (academyofdance.com.hk).
Read the full story here.
Mardy
Mardy Casa is an FDH Ambassador with PathFinders (pathfinders.org.hk).
Read the full story here.
Thank You!
A huge thanks not just to our fantastic women who were nominated by Expat Living readers for our Hong Kong International Women’s Day special, but also to the wonderful nominators who took time to highlight the people whose work they admired or appreciated in one way or another.
Like this story on female entrepreneurs in Hong Kong? Read more in our Living in Hong Kong section.
This article first appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of Expat Living magazine. Subscribe now so you never miss an issue.
