Picture credit: MKB-Amsterdam
MKB-Amsterdam, an curiosity group that backs up for entrepreneurial pursuits within the Amsterdam area, introduced on Tuesday, February 14 the nominations for February’s Product of the Month.
The nominations have been supplied by Feminine Hub EQUALS, guaranteeing extra range and equality within the labour market and serving to girls develop their careers.
EQUALS is dedicated to serving to feminine entrepreneurs of their careers.
Dieuwke van Buren, Managing Director of Equals Amsterdam tells MKB-Amsterdam, “You typically see that ladies actually wish to be entrepreneurs, however suppose that the step to entrepreneurship is just too huge. Males typically simply do it and girls nonetheless too typically suppose they will’t. We assist them on their means.”
In accordance with Buren, the essential step on this course of is the creation and presentation of feminine position fashions.
“They’re dwelling proof that it’s certainly doable. When different girls see these position fashions, additionally they turn out to be conscious of the chances which can be out there to them. That’s the place it begins,” she provides.
Motive behind the nominations
The chosen merchandise are all “co-invented by feminine entrepreneurs,” says MKB-Amsterdam.
Dieuwke says, “We checked out a pleasant variation within the merchandise, in several classes. What can also be essential to point out with this choice: these are usually not at all times firms which have already made all of it the best way. Most of the contenders are nonetheless within the ‘constructing’ part of their firm and we discover that crucial to point out. Entrepreneurship is simply very arduous work and the highway to success is commonly not seen.”
In accordance with Dieuwke, ‘affect’ is the frequent trait shared by all of the nominees.
“As a result of they’re sustainable, wholesome, or social with a coronary heart for the world. These girls entrepreneurs actually deliver the gorgeous merchandise of the longer term to the market,” she concludes.
Right here’re the nominations for February’s Product of the Month. You possibly can forged your vote right here.
Kumasi
Based in 2021 by Lars Gierveld, Linda Klunder, and Rogier Energy, Kumasi develops quite a lot of 100 per cent pure, nutritious, and scrumptious drinks from cocoa byproducts.
Kumasi’s smooth drink is on the market in two variants – the ‘thirst-quencher’ Sappi and the ‘tantalising’ Gassi. Each consist purely of juice and water, with none components.
Kumasi says the juice incorporates Magnesium, Vitamin B1, Potassium, and Zinc.
The corporate buys its uncooked supplies via its technical accomplice in Ghana instantly from farmers.
In consequence, cocoa farmers obtain speedy further earnings – as much as 30 per cent further per kg – from promoting the pulp and juice byproducts from their cocoa manufacturing course of they’d have usually thrown away.
NoWa
NoWa (NoWaste) makes jewelry from recycled gold and silver from previous telephones.
Josette, the founding father of NoWa, was making an attempt to show the mobile phone right into a waste-free product when working for Closing the Loop in 2015.
Throughout that point, Josette and her buddy Joyce got here up with the thought of constructing jewelry from the silver and gold from previous telephones collected by Closing the Loop in Africa.
For each piece of jewelry NoWa sells, Closing the Loop collects discarded telephones from Africa.
Ecostoof
Ecostoof presents an previous hay field with a brand new look that can prepare dinner routinely with out using gasoline or electrical energy.
Caro, the mind behind Ecostoof, found the haybox.
“After I seemed on the field, I noticed that you simply needed to put your pot with the meals in it within the hay. The hay served as insulation to protect the warmth of the pot,” she says.
This impressed her to make a conveyable and extra environment friendly model in a horny kind. That’s how the thought of the EcoStoof and its accompanying cookbook was born.
EcoStoof makes use of a part of its proceeds to help good causes within the discipline of nature growth and biodiversity.
No Fairytale
Based by Bernadette Kooijman, No Fairytales is an Amsterdam-based meals firm that gives recipes which can be wholesome and obesity-free.
“Just a few years in the past, in the course of the business break for the 8 o’clock information, I noticed a “meals innovation” move by a pizza burger. Two pizzas on high of one another within the form of a burger. That was the second I made a decision to do one thing,” says Bernadette.
That’s how No Fairytale was born. At present, the corporate presents Beetroot Tortilla, Carrot Tortilla, and Bell Pepper & Chilli Tortilla.
In accordance with the Dutch agency, all vegetable tortillas include 45 per cent greens, decrease in energy than the ‘pure’ options, and 100 per cent greens and likewise excessive in fibre.
Rain Couture
Daphne Gerritse, a working mom of two, typically commutes by bicycle and located it unattainable to discover a coat that wasn’t too sizzling, too chilly, too moist, or too ugly.
She then got here up with the thought – an all-in-one vogue resolution that might work for all events, all climate sorts, all seasons, and all kinds for all instances.
Thus Rain Couture was born.
Amsterdam-based Rain Couture is a web-based retailer that sells weatherproof raincoats, rainwear, and equipment for its clients.
Vote to your favorite product
Chosen your favorite product already?
Solid your vote right here. You possibly can vote till Thursday, March 2.
The winners of the jury prize and the general public prize might be introduced on Monday, March 6, in the course of the SME drink occasion within the Oranjekerk in Amsterdam.
