Solutions towards Issues of Women Entrepreneurs of uPVC Plas Profiles In Building Construction A Business with Minimum Man Power / Pathak, V A.

By: Pathak, V A
Material type: ArticleArticlePublisher: 2009Subject(s): Building Construction Industry | Pvc Plastic Materials | Women Entrepreneurs | Women Entrepreneruship | Smes | Small And Medium Enterprises | Sme Sector | Entrepreneurship In The Sme Sector | Entrepreneurshiphip Research | Eighth Biennial Conference On Contempora | Biennial Conference Papers In: Eighth Biennial Conference on Contemporary Issues in Entrepr ResearchSummary: In US alone women are the majority owners in 30% of all privately held firms. These firms have $2.5 trillion in revenues and employ 19.1 million individuals as per a study made last year. Despite the large number of women business owners, little is known about the motivations that women have for starting their own firms. Hence this study examines the factors favoring the women to start their own business in one of the fields of plastics. For a women entrepreneur, reducing man power and saving the time cycle in production are the biggest solutions to their day to day problems, that leads to a profitable business. The plastics profile business is one of them. It is an attractive project with high value addition and return. One of its segments is manufacturing or marketing the uPVC (Unplasticised Poly Vinyl Chloride) window & door profiles. Today, the windows are no longer an object for openings in the building, but have variety of applications. It has growth of more than 27% per year, with a demand of 300,000 TPA against the supply of 40 000 TPA. Reasons for its increasing demand are narrated here. Hence, how a women entrepreneur with this item can replace natural materials...
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In US alone women are the majority owners in 30% of all privately held firms. These firms have $2.5 trillion in revenues and employ 19.1 million individuals as per a study made last year. Despite the large number of women business owners, little is known about the motivations that women have for starting their own firms. Hence this study examines the factors favoring the women to start their own business in one of the fields of plastics. For a women entrepreneur, reducing man power and saving the time cycle in production are the biggest solutions to their day to day problems, that leads to a profitable business. The plastics profile business is one of them. It is an attractive project with high value addition and return. One of its segments is manufacturing or marketing the uPVC (Unplasticised Poly Vinyl Chloride) window & door profiles. Today, the windows are no longer an object for openings in the building, but have variety of applications. It has growth of more than 27% per year, with a demand of 300,000 TPA against the supply of 40 000 TPA. Reasons for its increasing demand are narrated here. Hence, how a women entrepreneur with this item can replace natural materials...

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