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| SME SUCCESS STORIES |
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| HUMAIRA ASLAM |
| Mirchi Restaurant |
'Mirchi' has become Lahore's most preferred and popular restaurant to dine out. Humaira Aslam
in partnership with Riffat Sultan Noon started this Pakistani delicatessen. Their success story
looks as if has been lifted from a bestseller. Both Humaira and Riffat started their partnership by
managing cafeterias at various schools and colleges.
Aspiring to setup a restaurant of their own, they approached FWBL for a business loan. First
Women Bank Ltd. not only provided them with the loan but also business consultancy through
their Financial Services Desk. Aptly saying the bank had been at their beck and call for anything
they required to establish and expand their restaurant. Mirchi today caters to twice the number
of covers they did few months back. |
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SAMINA KHAN |
| Samina Khan Designer Furniture |
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| Samina Khan, owner of "Samina Khan Designer Furniture" is also an
interior designer par-excellence. She has to her credit doing interior designing and furnishing of leading
banks and multinational corporations
offices. Her firm provides turnkey
solutions from interior designing,
decoration to furniture making. When
Samina needed financial support, she counted on First Women
Bank Ltd. Since then FWBL and Samina have been partners in
progress. Today, Samina boasts a flourishing business in
Pakistan and a busy exporter of furniture to Asian and European countries. |
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| ZEENAT SAEED |
| Taneez, Silverware Shop |
Women with their sense of aesthetics and style could become an important component in the
commercial industry of Pakistan. Lifestyle products have a large market locally and overseas. If
more women are given chances to venture in establishing their own concerns, and educated on
how to export their products; the result would be a seasoned community of women earning
valuable foreign exchange for our country.
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Zeenat Saeed is one such person who made a success story
from her passion for creating stylised silverware. It all started
from a simple exhibition held in her home of cushion covers,
waste paper baskets, mounted paintings and lampshades - all
unique and meticulously executed. The sales and the
acclamations from her clients gave her the confidence to think in terms of developing it into a serious business. Later, she managed to get a shop at Park
Towers,Karachi, but was afraid she wouldn't be able to keep paying the rentals. When she first
approached FWBL, the Bank believed and welcomed her initiatives and approved the loan
amountdesired by her. Within three months the Bank saw the signs of success in her business.
The sales increased by 100 percent every year. And the Bank continued to extend her financial
support as and when it was required. Taneez is now a name synonymous with style, and has a
considerably large market for its products nationwide.
Zeenat Saeed has ambitious plans to expand her business in Pakistan as well as export to other
countries. She has also opened another outlet in Lahore. |
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