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VanCity owners & sisters Nasim Dhanji and Shelina Mawani
VanCity owners and sisters Nasim Dhanji and Shelina Mawani have turned a spicy idea into a hot business. Their company, which doubled its sales in its second year alone, joined VanCity in October 2001 and worked with Community Business Services on financing to support the rapid growth of the business.
Born and r ...
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Out of Africa (This classic preparation has a robust tangyness, very popular in Africa.), Oct 2001
Mwanza is a busy port city on the shore of Lake Victoria. With a population of 2.3 million it is third largest urban community in the United Republic of Tanzania.
The motto of the United Republic ‘Uhuru na Umoja’=‘ Freedom and Unity’ written in Kiswahili, the national language of Tanzania, re ...
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Chef News- Where are they now???, May/June 2004
In this new column Chefs’ News follows up the evolution and business advances of new Associate members. If you have suggestions for someone to be featured please contact the Editor.
Remember the column featuring ‘Nana’s’ in the Sept./ Oct. 2001 issue of Chefs’ News? At that time they had ...
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The leader Newspaper - Shelina Mawani and Nasim Dhanji
With a little luck and a lot of hard work, sisters Shelina Mawani and Nasim Dhanji have turned a culinary hobby into a grocery chain success.
Shelina had lost her job in the video game industry and Nasim had recently moved from Kenya and was enrolled in the YMCA entrepreneurial program. Struggling to embark ...
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East African food a hot seller, September 23, 2002 - THE VANCOUVER SUN
HOT STUFF !! Nasim Dhanji has translated a little bit of home-made hot sauce into a successful food business that will do $1 million in sales this year, The Sun's Gerry Bellett reports,
Three years ago Nasim Dhanji was mixing batches of an African-style chili sauce on her kitchen stove wondering what her ne ...
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New Pioneers: Stories of 100 BC Women Entrepreneurs
Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, sisters Nasim Dhanji and Shelina Mawani were destined to own their own business. Before moving to Canada, Nasim was a fashion designer by profession, owned a factory and had 20 employees all over Kenya. She was having difficulty finding work here so she enrolled in an entrepreneur ...
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The Spice is right to head South.- Business in Vancouver Feburary 2008
GLEN
The Spice is right to head south.
Major U.S retailers will waive slotting fees for some manufacturers.
By Glen Korstrom
She’s grown her Surrey curry sauce business to millions of dollars in annual revenue, with 26 staff and sales through approximately
500 Canadian stores.
Now Shelina Mawani is seekin ...
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