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Welcome to the fourth month
of a readers favorite page which has featured a host of dynamic business personalities whose ideas, motivations and business acumen will have surely inspired all the budding entrepreneurs out there.
Capital warmly encourages nominations to Entrepreneurs Profile and looks forward to introducing more upwardly mobile model citizens.
 

Ejigu Yabogosh

 

RESUME


FULL NAME: Ejigu Yabogosh
AGE: 41
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: High school graduate.
TITLE COMPANY: Unity Leather product shop and factory
FOUNDED: 2006
WHAT IT DOES: Garments distributor and seller (coats, jackets, petite coats, belts, vests, women’s bags and wallets)
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 5
HQ: Near Stadium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
START UP CAPITAL: 100,000 birr
CURRENT CAPITAL: 150,000 birr

 

 

 

Entrepreneur Profile features dynamic business personalities, fledgling
inventors and innovators, environmentally conscious industrialists and other
entrepreneurial leaders and role models. It is one of CAPITAL’s most popular
sections.

CAPITAL warmly welcomes nominations to Entrepreneur Profile and looks forward to introducing more upwardly mobile model citizens.

Write to CAPITAL EP- P.O.Box: 95 Code 1110 or e-mail at syscom@ethionet.et


BIG PICTURE


REASON FOR STARTING BUSINESS:
Interest in designing and modeling.

BIGGEST PLUS OF OWNERSHIP:
Leather work needs close supervision in designing and modeling of the products.

BUSINESS STRENGH:
We have quality leather and string I have experience in garment work that adds value to my product.

BIGGEST WEAKNESS:
Not joining the global market.

BIGGEST RISK:
Sometimes the leather color could fade due to tannery faults and our clients complain about it.

SMARTEST MOVE:
Promotion on TV, newspapers and participating in trade fairs and exhibitions

BIGGEST WORRY
The market; because leather is mostly the winter season.

MOST CHALLENGING TASK:
Finding markets.


PERSONALS


FIVE YEAR PLAN
Introduce new leather products,for export and expansion in the local market.

FIRST CAREER:
Tailor

MOST ADMIRED ENTREPRENEUR
Any successful businessperson.

MOST INTERESTED IN MEETING
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

STRESS REDUCERS
Prayer.

FAVORITE PASTIME
With my family and church.

FAVORITE BOOK
The Bible

FAVORITE DESTINATION
Ethiopian historical and cultural sites.

FAVORITE AUTOMOBILE
Mercedes Benz.