Carrol Boyes wanted her brand to live on ‘long after I'm gone’. Here’s how the former teacher built a global business

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Carrol Boyes wanted her brand to live on ‘long after I'm gone’. Here’s how the former teacher built a global business | BISouthAfrica

Once, she couldn’t find any metal for jewellery, and out of desperation melted her own pieces as well as jewellery from her mother and grandmother to create new products to sell.to building the business, and bought only materials and equipment when she could afford it.

She sold her creations on weekends at Green Market Square in Cape Town. When her products were featured in the media, demand grew to the extent that in 1992, she opened a factory on her father’s farm in Limpopo. The company also eventually opened a facility in Paarden Eiland in Cape Town.

 

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