The Women’s Brand Expo of Córdoba, in imagesAJ Gonzalez
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More than a hundred Córdoba companies led by women They have met at Palace of the mercy of the Provincial Council of Córdoba for give visibility to your businesses, establish synergies, promote your activities and offer during this weekend leisure and training activities for the entire family. This is the fifth edition of Expo Marca Mujer, the largest multi-sector commercial exhibition fair of Córdoba where businesses undertaken by women belonging to the Forum of Businesswomen and Professionals of Córdoba participate (FEPC).
Today, and tomorrow, Sunday, the businesswomen have set up stands representative of your businesses where the Cordoba public can pass. Among the objectives, make the female business network visible as an engine for the development of the territory, supporting small businesswomen or developing new forms of networking. “We are a very varied engine of development and from the businesswomen forum we have been working for years to make it visible, and so that we have a day of our own where the city and province see the important potential which are women’s companies,” explained the president of the forum, Inmaculada Pérez.
Expo Marca Mujer de Córdoba, in the Palacio de la Merced.
Automotive, medicine, fashion, consulting, marketing… the companies that can be seen are very diverse, as are their businesswomen, all types of aged. The fair, which has a budget of 30,000 euros, has also organized a program with more than 60 activities which will range from family workshops to product tasting, or parades and talks.
An impulse marked by motherhood
Piedad Rodríguez I had been working as a consultant for large companies for years until 2017 when the maternitythis was what gave him the impetus to bet on his own personal brand, “I had to get out of the schedules and trips of a multinational consulting firm to try it on my own, I was clear about my abilities and needed flexibilitythat’s how I started and now I wouldn’t change it for anything,” acknowledges the entrepreneur. Her job is to help companies go “from paper to digital tools.” Piedad is a veteran when it comes to setting up the stand at this fair, since it has been present in all the editions held to date, “there are large companies here that cannot be summarized in a two-meter stand, “They are very powerful companies and very great women.”he indicates.
Stand in the Baroque Patio of the Provincial Council.
The stands, where there are also several food and drink stalls, are divided into zones depending on the business areadifferent businesswomen from the health sector are waiting in the Patio Blanco, among them is the speech therapist Maria Jose Martin, at the head of the clinic that bears his name, “we are specialized in new tools, we stand out for having the use of therapeutic laser and transcranial stimulation, a different way of doing speech therapy.” After more than 15 years practicing his profession, four years ago he decided to starthe left Linares, his hometown, and came to Córdoba, “a city that I love,” and where he says “there is a very good health culture“The collaborations and ties that I am establishing with health professionals are very nice and I don’t think I’m leaving here,” she says smiling. This is the second time she has participated in the forum, a meeting that is “very necessary to support female entrepreneurship.” “and also a fundamental idea” for make collaborations between us.
