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Leanna Archer – Starting a business at age 9

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Leanna Archer – Starting a business at age 9


Leanna Archer Leanna's Inc

Leanna Archer is the Founder/CEO of Leaana’s Inc, A hair and body care products she started at age 9 years old after her mom started using hair pomade made by her great grandmother on her hair.

Suddenly, she started receiving a lot of attention from strangers commenting on how much they loved her hair which was from the result of the pomade.

She quickly noticed the need for the product and how beneficial it could be; now the next step was convincing her parents as a 9 years old to start a business selling pomade

Firstly, they acknowledged the idea, but wrote it off by saying that they dint have the time and knowledge to run a business, she was told the regular you know “wait till you get older” speech.

But she dint give up, she decided to take it upon herself to introduce the pomade to her friends in a Gerber food jar and it paid off, they all loved it, and it was like they switched a light bulb on, calls started to come, people wanted more.

After that, Her parents were so impressed they decided to help her, she obtained her business license and tax id after doing some research and in June 2005, Leanna Inc was born.

Leanna is still currently responsible for the creations and development of the products but not without her family.

Leanna also travels around the country giving speeches to motivate kids and young adults.

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Nadine Anderson – Using her Chemistry Degree to launch her hair products

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Nadine Anderson – Using her Chemistry Degree to launch her hair products


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Nadine is the founder of Curl Harmony, A company she started in July 2008 after finding it difficult to find natural hair products for afro in the UK.

She said she has always wanted to go into business for a long time “It’s something that I have always wanted to do and when I couldn’t find the hair products I wanted to buy, I knew this was something I could make a success of”.

The products are handmade and use natural or naturally derived ingredients as they only use curl friendly ingredients and avoid nasties like sulphates, mineral and silicones.

She said her chemistry degree helped her a lot in researching and formulating the product range.
Nadine started by taking out a £5000 personal loan to fund the business which was mainly used for the website, ingredients and packaging.

She mainly sells directly to customers, but also to a few wholesalers across Europe (The Netherlands, Sweden and UK): www.naturesparlour.co.uk, www.doeli.com, www.comfortsoil.nl, www.lockbutiken.se

She has just started to ship to countries outside of the EU and also looking to gain market share in USA and Canada.

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