In 2011, Said Rouached took early retirement from his role as manager of Tunisia’s state-owned phosphates producer, Compagnie des Phosphates de Gafsa, to establish a family-run business located in Gafsa in south-west Tunisia. “We launched Createx just after the Revolution, a critical and very unstable period. However, we managed to negotiate a contract with a…

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Born in Kef, Houssein Cherni is passionate about his hometown, its monuments and its history, but also his new business, Loka Sac, that he launched in March 2018, with the support of his family. Loka Sac is not Houssein’s first stab at entrepreneurship. In 2013, after graduating in Electrical Engineering, he started a project for…

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It’s early in the morning and Bochra Nciri is busy operating the machines in her workshop. She carefully adjusts the settings on the machines, making sure the plastic bottles fulfil the customers’ needs. In March 2018, after analyzing the local business environment, Bochra decided to launch a plastic manufacturing company in her hometown of Sidi…

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Strategically located on the main road from Houmet Essouk to Midoun in Djerba, AMEN Detergents is one of the largest firms for the manufacture and sale of cleaning products in Southern Tunisia. Jalel Moussa, founder and manager of AMEN Detergents, is busy overseeing the latest orders for delivery to some of Djerba’s hotels. Opposite the…

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Gabes, in Southern Tunisia, is a region renowned for its traditional production of dates. Rym Belgueyed, saw an opportunity in turning the waste from these date palm plantations into a blooming business. Before coming up with the idea for Eco Palm, Rym had experienced something many successful entrepreneurs have experienced: failure.  After studying Chemistry, she…

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In a residential area of Tataouine, Mohamed Aoual’s business, Tata Furniture, stands out with its warm ocher-red storefront. Inside bespoke kitchens, furniture pieces and walk-in wardrobes are packaged, ready for delivery, in the workshop where Mohamed designs and manufactures his products. Since establishing his business in the area in November 2016, Mohamed has built a…

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Abdelmagid Rakkaz has just moved his plastic pipe business, Plasta, into a workshop outside the city of Tataouine. He proudly unrolls the new stock of plastic piping and carefully prepares the winding of the pipes, the centering and finally the labelling before delivering the order to one of his first customers. Abdelmagid enthusiastically reflects on…

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It’s early in the morning and the sound of metal banging and clunking can be heard coming from Ezzeddine Guellaoui’s workshop in El Mansoura, an industrial area near the city center of Kairouan. Ezzeddine is busy welding the final parts of a wrought iron door and his two employees are making the finishing touches to…

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There are journeys in life that inspire you, like that of Khawla, who has drawn on her strength of character and ability in furniture design to successfully launch her business. In 2014, Khawla graduated in furniture design from ISAM in Sidi Bouzid, the city where she is from. For her final project, she focused her…

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At the age of 50, Wadii Shili has realized his long-term ambition; In April 2017, he launched SFM, a business which designs and manufactures industrial mechanical parts and is located in his hometown of Kef. With around twenty-years of experience in the field, Wadii is confident in his craft. After studying Electro-mechanics at Kef Technical…

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