Business – Kitchen Furniture saloon.

Two friends Elena and Gulsina participated in one of our first master-classes on core business-skills in 2006. In December of 2006 they took a loan of 50.000 rubles ($1,890) from Integra for starting their own business. After that Elena and Gulsina opened up a kitchen furniture shop with design services available. That shop is still operating. It’s located in one of the Moscow area towns.

In 2007 after such a successful start Gulsina and Elena took a second loan from Integra and tried to operate a second similar interior shop in another place of Moscow suburbs. But, unfortunately, when the world financial crisis happened it affected their business. The entrepreneurs made a decision to close down their second shop and concentrated their efforts on the development of their first interior-shop that is fairly successful.

Both Elena and Gulsina are married, and both have children. Their own business helps them to add to family budgets and to realize their creative and entrepreneurial potentials.