{"id":8784,"date":"2023-03-08T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/international-womens-day-5-female-founders-transforming-retail\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T11:13:12","slug":"international-womens-day-5-female-founders-transforming-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/international-womens-day-5-female-founders-transforming-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day: 5 female founders transforming retail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victoria Prew, Hurr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Today marks International Women\u2019s Day, which provides Retail Gazette the perfect opportunity to highlight some of the talented female founders transforming the sector.<\/p>\n

Sophie Hersan, co-founder, Vestiaire Collective<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"Sophie<\/p>\n

Vestiare Collective has become one of the most recognisable luxury resale platforms in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What started off as a vision in Sophie Hersan\u2019s Parisian apartment, has grown into a \u00a31.2bn business.<\/span><\/p>\n

The B Corp certified <\/span>platform is one of the market leaders in the $182.4bn global resale industry and is made up of buyers and sellers in more than 50 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n

The B Corp certified marketplace now boasts <\/span>500-plus employees across France, Germany, the US, Hong Kong and Singapore, of which 60% are women.<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria Prew, founder, HURR<\/b><\/h3>\n
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A Hurr pop-up at Selfridges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Victoria Prew is the co-founder and chief executive of online fashion rental marketplace Hurr Collective.<\/p>\n

After spotting a huge gap in the market for fashion rental, she partnered with Matthew Geleta in 2017 to launch the platform, which Forbes has nicknamed the \u201cAirbnb of fashion\u201d.<\/p>\n

The wardrobe rental platform is a two-sided marketplace allowing lenders to make money from their under-utilised wardrobe and renters to access designer pieces for around 20% of their original retail price.<\/p>\n

It has since gone on to partner with a number of retailers including John Lewis, Mulberry and Selfridges to launch rental services with their respective products.<\/p>\n

Marcia Kilgore at Beauty Pie<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"Marcia<\/p>\n

Marcia Kilgore is the brains behind Beauty Pie, the make-up and beauty buyers club shaking up the beauty industry.<\/p>\n

Beauty Pie has cut out the excessive packaging and large marketing budgets to offer its members luxury skincare sourced from the best factories around the world at a fraction of the cost of other retailers.<\/p>\n

Kilgore is a serial entrepreneur and founded well known brands such as Fitflop, Soap and Glory and skincare brand Bliss Spa, which she sold to LVMH for a reported $25m.<\/p>\n

Tessa Clarke and Saasha Celestial-One, founders of Olio<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"Tessa<\/p>\n

Tessa Clarke and Saasha Celestial-One are the duo behind the mobile app that is transforming food waste.<\/p>\n

Having launched in 2015, the world\u2019s first free food sharing app now has over six million global users with over half in the UK.<\/p>\n

Big 4 grocer Tesco partnered with the app in 2020, which has seen more than 30 million meals saved from going to waste.<\/p>\n

It has also partnered with Iceland, Sainsbury\u2019s, Planet Organic and Selfridges to prevent food wastage.<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9e Elliot, founder of Planet Organic<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"Renee<\/p>\n

US born Ren\u00e9e Elliot opened Planet Organic in Bayswater, London back in 1994, with a mission to promote health in the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal was to push organic and natural food out of the niche that it was in and into the mainstream as the best quality food around,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

That was the beginning of a chain of organic food stores. There are currently seven Planet Organic Stores in London and in 2020 adding an additional seven London-based stores to its portfolio.<\/p>\n

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