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The manufacturing trendsetter
The 34-year-old entrepreneur and self-declared lover of leather may not seem like much of a rebel, but the way in which her local company soleRebels has become Africa’s fastest-growing shoe brand and first global footwear brand is certainly out of the ordinary. Alemu, who is soon launching the
Republic of Leather that will produce other goods, believes Ethiopia contains huge potential for manufacturing, and as the likes of H&M and other international investors eye up the country, it seems she is not the only one.
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This month's FORBES AND African Business Magazine NAME Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu to Africa's Top 100 Young Economic Leaders
The SoleRebels founder & Chief Executive Officer said in a statement, “I am totally vibed to open our first US soleRebels store in Silicon Valley. We have waited a while to open our first US store because we wanted to find the perfect place to open our first US location.” Alemu described her company’s new store location in the Bay Area as “a place that epitomized the creativity, innovation, craziness, disruption and the overall WALK NAKED ethos that soleRebels is all about. Silicon Valley is the epicenter of all these things and so it’s the perfect place to launch our US retail store business and I imagine there are quite a few folks in and around Silicon Valley who can’t wait to be able to ‘walk naked.’”
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New York (TADIAS) – What better location in the U.S. than California’s famed Silicon Valley to sell comfortable and fashionable footwear that are made from recycled materials with the added value of being 100 percent vegan?
Bethlehem joins fellow UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors actors Antonio Banderas & Connie Britton and sports icons Didier Drogba, Ronaldo, Zinédine Zidane Iker Casillas Misako Konno Maria Sharapova and Marta Vieira da Silva.
Renowned entrepreneur Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, was appointed today as the UN’s Goodwill Ambassador for Entrepreneurship, a role specifically created for her.
Renowned entrepreneur Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu will be appointed as Pink Ribbon RED Ribbon Ambassador on August 6, 2014 White House Summit hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama and First Lady Laura Bush.
O, The Oprah Magazine presents its fourth annual O Power List, featuring 21 women from the African continent who, through their lives, are inspiring others to follow and fulfill their purpose, as the truest version of themselves.
Building a million-dollar business is hard enough. Building a million dollar fortune is even harder. But building a million-dollar fortune in Africa while in your twenties or thirties is deserving of applause.
Behind this magnificent topiatry is an incomparably talented and determined woman: Ethiopian businesswoman Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu.