Businesswoman used fire hose waste to build her fortune

A businesswoman who started a firm by using fire hose waste to create ladies handbags and belts was one of the speakers at a major entrepreneurial event.

More than 200 female entrepreneurs and business leaders attended a briefing on the 2013 Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards and the Global Women’s Forum at AIB Bank centre in Ballsbridge, Dublin recently.

The event, hosted by AIB in association with entrepreneurship support agency, ThousandSeeds, focused on Fostering Female Entrepreneurship, Diversity and Leadership, and included presentations by previous winner Kresse Wesling, from ElvisandKresse.com, who told how winning the Cartier Award changed her life and assisted her in creating a very successful life-style accessories business using waste products.