Lady of Business
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Lady of Business (E1) She’ll stop at nothing to save her business and family
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Lady of Business (E2) Juggling her family and her business
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Lady of Business (E3) Purchasing unusual child's clothes in Turkey to save enterprise.
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Lady of Business (E4) A business revival jeopardised by logistics issues
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Lady of Business (E5) Torn between obligations to family and shop
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Lady of Business (E6) A getaway to sunny Georgia
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Lady of Business (E7) Using every available resource to get the money for her Emirates trip
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Lady of Business (E8) Iron Lady of Business goes to Dubai’s markets to save her shops
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Lady of Business (E9) Anna’s master class on haggling
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Lady of Business (E10) The ultimate decision: keeping the business or starting a new life in Georgia?
Lady of Business (E4) A business revival jeopardised by logistics issues
Anna has been selling children’s clothing for over 20 years. She used to buy goods in Turkey to resell in Moscow. Her shops were full of customers and she enjoyed a steady income. However, the recent economic crisis has pushed her business into the red.
Now that she’s counting her losses instead of her profits, she decides to breathe life into her business. There’s the only one possible solution – a business trip to Turkey. The stakes couldn’t be higher as she’s forced to borrow money to finance the trip. She sets off for Turkey in search of a product with that special something that will fly off the shelves and save her from bankruptcy.
After a long day buying new clothing lines in a Turkish town, Anna returns to her hotel. She discovers that the parcel containing her most expensive purchases has not been delivered. The shop is half a day’s journey away, and as an experienced business woman, she knows that time is money. She makes every effort to contact the shop by phone, turning to some old friends to help with the language barrier. The shop promises to send it the same evening, but Anna has no time to wait. She decides to send her remaining parcels to Moscow, only to discover that all the parcel offices are closed for the New Year. It turns out that taking them with her on the plane is also impossible. Her only hope: the so-called ‘shaitans’, people who carry goods on their backs across the border.
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