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Seddy Makeover hosts awards for beauty, cosmetics entrepreneurs

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Seddy Makeover, a leading Lagos-based make-up and hair stylist company, is set to host the 2019 Africa Beauty Summit &Awards to recognise and celebrate entrepreneurs doing amazing things in the continent’s beauty industry.

The award aims to promote beauty businesses on the continent by creating a link with African entrepreneurs and foreign investors.

Temitope Sedi, an entrepreneur, business owner and a passionate business leader, is the brain behind the Seddy Makeover Summit & Awards.

According to her, the award will create for Nigeria and African beauty industry a working system in 10 years, increasing revenue and creating a platform to enable local brands reach global market.

She noted that the award categories will be thrown open to the public to nominate key players who will be nominees for the awards. The categories are entertainment, fashion, film and sport.

Sedi stated that all the nominees will be present at the gala night taking place at Oriental Hotel on the 22nd September, 2019 with investors and industry actors as well.

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The winners will be selected through an open voting website calledafricabeautysummitandaward.com

After the awards, beauty and fashion entrepreneurs will gather again in July 2020 at Kigali, Rwanda, to chart a path forward for the growth of the African beauty and cosmetics industry.

The summit will converge investors, stakeholders and key players in the beauty industry from over Africa to celebrate and explore innovative ways to improve the industry.

The cosmetics industry in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow over the next two years. It was estimated at €10 billion in 2017 and expected to double when the continent’s total population, the fastest growing in the world, surpasses 1. 2 billion.

 

Josephine Okojie