Hair-care firm´s African dream taking shape
(World News South Africa)

Durban - Despite the sluggish global economy, the market for personal and professional ethnic hair-care products is big business that has local entrepreneur Wendy Norman focusing on growing the market share of locally manufactured exports into Africa. Norman, 57, is no novice when it comes to the ethnic hair-care market - she has been in the game since 1994, when American manufacturer J Strickland & Co asked her to take over its Botswana operation. She went from sales agent to owner of J Strickland & Co Africa, starting small, working from her home in Westville, with one staff member and her daughter helping out in the school holidays. Inventor`s bright idea The company manufactures products...