SUCCESSFUL businesswomen have been celebrated by Huddersfield University.
The university welcomed female entrepreneurs to a lecture by Yorkshire businesswoman, Sally Robinson (shown front left) who runs lingerie company Ample Bosom.
Sally is pictured with Amanda Lepton (right) the university's mentor for start-up businesses and women entrepreneurs (from the left) Lindsay Union, Rachel Black, Gina Clarke and Ann Ritter.
Amanda said: "We were really pleased to welcome Sally to the university.
"It was great for our many women entrepreneurs in the Huddersfield Business Generator to meet her and talk to her about their experiences.
"Business incubation programmes, like the university's business generator, have played a major role by giving men and women the `hand-holding' security of belonging to a network of like-minded people starting up a business."
The university's Business Generator had a 20:80 ratio of women to men 12 months ago.
But this has changed dramatically over the past year, with business start-ups led by women now level pegging those with men at 50:50.
Sally was invited by the generator as an example of how launching a business should and could be done by others.
Sally from North Yorkshire, told the invited audience how she was a farmer's wife living on a 200 acre farm that in the past, had struggled to sustain the family.
She opened a bed and breakfast in the 1990s to increase the family's income.
Her business was launched after one of her customers suggested she turn her empty barn into a mail order business; selling bras to women who needed unusual sizes.
