Canada's Top 5 Women Entrepreneurs

Profit Magazine has been tracking Canada's women entrepreneurs. Rebecca MacDonald is the top female entrepreneur with...

"...revenue approaching $2 billion in fiscal 2008, a sign of how far Canadian women risk-takers have come since 1999, according to Profit magazine.

Profit, which has been tracking women in business since 1999, said Tuesday that Rebecca MacDonald, who heads up the Energy Savings Income Fund, is the country's top female entrepreneur in 2008.

Her company, which offers consumers fixed-rate energy contracts, had revenue of $1.73 billion for its fiscal 2008, which ended March 31, 2008. That was an increase of $1.53 billion over the same period in 2007 and a huge jump compared to $23 million in sales in 1999, the year Profit began following women entrepreneurs in Canada..."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great to see that women entrepreneurs are steadily growing each year in Canada.