2023-10-13 17:25:20
Since 2016, Congolese entrepreneur Gisèla van Houcke has created Zuri Luxury Hair, a network of beauty salons across Africa which has 60 direct employees and generates $1.5 million in turnover. zuri luxury hair
STORY – Starting from nothing, the company of a Congolese entrepreneur has 60 direct employees and generates 1.5 million dollars in turnover.
Money is the lifeblood… A proverb that Gisèla Van Houcke experiences on a daily basis since she decided to launch her African business in the beauty sector. “On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s probably a 20», Launches the young Congolese about her financing difficulties. A native of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), having grown up in the United Kingdom and starting her career in Europe after studying law between Paris and London, Gisèla chose like many Africans in the diaspora to return to invest in the continent. In 2015, the young woman settled in Kigali, Rwanda, as a legal executive in a solar company. Designed “initially as a hobby» – Gisèla brought back products from abroad for her friends – the idea of Zuri Luxury Hair quickly grew to include today several beauty salons in the DRC, Uganda and Rwanda and the beginnings of a network of franchisees. “I quickly realized that there was something…
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