Tara Fela-Durotoye, Chief Executive Officer of Africa’s leading beauty brand, House of Tara – iconic for setting up the first makeup studio and establishing Nigeria’s first make up school in 2004 was profiled yesterday on CNN’s African Voices, a weekly show that highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who are shaping change in Africa.
She talked about the Tara brand being Africa’s leading beauty brand, her passion for empowering young women to build businesses and blazing a trail for young Africans and young African women especially to believe in themselves and to build their communities.
It will be recalled that House of Tara opened up its Kenya store in the last quarter of 2014.
The feature aired Sunday night on DSTV Channel 401, at 7.30pm.
House of Tara, set up in 1998, is a pioneer in the beauty and makeup industry in Nigeria and Africa as a whole and a trailblazer in the areas
of retail, distribution channel management and education.
Known also as an industry enabler, the brand, besides being the first to set up a beauty school in Nigeria, has over 3,000 reps spread across the country and 20 stores to its name.
Photocredit: Tara Fela-Durotoye
