In search of to money in on burgeoning advertising and marketing alternatives within the MSME sector, ladies entrepreneurs are making their presence dominantly felt on the ongoing ‘Vyapar 2022’ meet right here, displaying a variety of merchandise and their enterprise acumen that’s catching the eye of each home consumers and world e-commerce giants.
Among the many 300-odd exhibition stalls on the expo, 65 of them belong to ladies enterprise leaders, whose palpable confidence and professionalism convey that they intention huge of their respective enterprises, organisers stated in a launch right here.
Starting from meals merchandise to handicrafts, they’ve displayed riveting merchandise for consumers, together with world e-commerce corporations like Amazon and Flipkart.
Minimol Mathew, proprietor of natural mushroom farm Nahomi, has displayed a raft of value-added merchandise made out of mushroom together with, oyster mushroom powder, oil, chocolate, cleaning soap, pickle, and cake.
“It has been confirmed that oyster mushroom powder is helpful for curing thyroid. We convert unsold mushroom into value-added merchandise, that are being offered by means of main festivals,” says Mathew, a local of Vithura in Thiruvananthapuram, who has been attending main festivals throughout India.
Geetha from Kalpetta has arrange a stall for her enterprise West Mount Caffe. She stated her agency sells premium espresso powder Arabica, which is legendary for its superior high quality, flavour, style and aroma.
“We’re primarily exporting the Arabica espresso powder to Dubai. Our main market in Kerala is five-star inns, high-end eating places and branded supermarkets,” she added.
Kasaragod-based Arunakshi M launched her enterprise Viflowers, a pillow and mattress-making enterprise, in the course of the pandemic. Inside no time, the micro-fibre pillows which can be useful for lowering neck ache gained a distinguished place out there and the agency registered a turnover of Rs 50 lakh final yr.
“Our main market is Kerala and Karnataka. I’ve employed round 10 employees and all are ladies,” she stated.
Hailing from Pathanamthitta, Suma Reji, Managing Director, Style of Travancore, has a pickle model, Mummy’s Secret, which presents round 25 forms of vegetarian and non-vegetarian pickles.
Reji says she prepares these pickles in a standard means with out including any preservatives. She believes that it’s the high quality and style that helped the natural merchandise discover a place within the hypermarkets of LuLu Group.
“At Vyapar 2022, we bought enquiries for exporting the merchandise, in addition to supplying them to the home market. Discussions are occurring with manufacturers like Reliance and Extra to showcase the merchandise of their supermarkets,” says Reji, who can also be a politician.
Vandana Jubin, Founding father of MinyM, is adept in making goodies, and has already scripted her success as an entrepreneur. An engineering graduate from Chalakkudy, she is specializing in making wholesome and sugar-free goodies utilizing pure components.
She makes greater than 25 forms of goodies, together with sugar-free goodies utilizing stevia, a pure sweetener.
“Aside from home consumers, I’ve bought a very good variety of enquiries relating to the export of goodies at Vyapar 2022. We now have a web-based platform to promote the merchandise, however I am focusing on a tie-up with main e-commerce companies for getting extra visibility,” Jubin factors out.
Showcasing an array of enticing baggage, masks and stationery objects product of jute, Sujatha Ok from Palakkad exudes confidence that Vyapar 2022 will assist scale up her enterprise model Tiddy Luggage.
She has been making jute merchandise for the final 9 years and has round 12 employees working beneath her. Even COVID-19 couldn’t snuff out her entrepreneurial spirit as she made the a lot of the glum state of affairs by lapping up bulk orders for making cotton masks.
Organised by the Division of Industries and Commerce to provide a giant increase to the MSME sector hit exhausting by the pandemic, the three-day ‘Vyapar 2022’ within the metropolis will conclude on Saturday.
