04 June - Xtraordinary Women: Somerset West Networking Event

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04 June - Xtraordinary Women: Somerset West Networking Event
Elgin Chickens won the Premier's Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards 2014 for the Best Established Business. As an established business Jeanne will be sharing how she overcame various challenges at the different stages of her business. Offering guidelines on how she avoided various pitfalls. 

View this YouTube Clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tql34BhOn6I) to listen to Jeanne Groenewald talking about her passion as an Entrepreneur.

About our Guest Speaker: 

A local hero, Jeanne Groenewald is the founder and managing director of Elgin Free Range Chickens. The company produces 80 000 birds a week, employs over 300 people and lists Woolworths, Checkers and Spar among its client an impressive achievement for any food brand. 

In 1997 Jeanne Groenewald, a wife and mother of two, decided to start rearing free range chickens in her back yard. Concerned about her family’s wellbeing, she had become increasingly worried about the health impact of processed foods. When she reached the point where she point-blankly refused to feed her children any mass-produced chemically enhanced meat, Jeanne decided to start experimenting with free range chickens. 

After tasting her plump and healthy chickens, friends and family started placing orders. Jeanne knew she was onto something when she realized how great the demand was for humanely-reared chicken devoid of chemical enhancement. Armed with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a BSc Degree in animal physiology and genetics, Jeanne ultimately grew her small experiment into one of the South African poultry industry’s greatest success stories, while making a powerful contribution in the drive towards truly free range. 

In 2000 she established the state of the art Elgin Poultry Abattoir in Grabouw, In August 2014 Jeanne was honored as the Western Capes’ Top Commercial Female Entrepreneur by the Western Cape Department of Agriculture. www.freerangechickens.co.za

BOOKINGS CLOSE MONDAY 01 JUNE

Please book your seat here:
http://www.xtraordinarywomen.co.za/events/events-calendar?task=view_event&event_id=361

Registration: 08:00 Tea/Coffee on arrival
Time: 08:30 - 11:00
Venue: Erinvale Gholf Estate, Somerset West

Investment: R175 via EFT or R195 if cash paid into account to cover cash deposit fee - no cash payments to be made at the door.

Members: R145.00 
Marketing Table: R200 Non-Members

A light snack will be served followed by Information Session and Networking. 

Please e-mail us on Events@XtraordinaryWomen.co.za for any booking queries.

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