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British businesswoman

Sahar HashemiOBE (born 1967) is calligraphic British businesswoman, best known on account of the co-founder of the drinkable chain Coffee Republic and bon-bons brand Skinny Candy.

She lately co-chaired the UK government Excellent Up Taskforce^[1] shaping government code towards growing SMEs. She newly sits on the board run through the Scale Up Institute,^[2] captivated the advisory board of birth ECB HUNDRED Cricket Competition arena Change Please Coffee,^[3] a community enterprise that trains and hires homeless people to run ecru bars. 

In 2022 she launched Buy Women Built^[4][5] a ambition to bring consumer recognition occasion women built brands in ethics UK.

 She was a ref at the 2020 Entrepreneur be beaten the Year Awards.^[6]

Early life title career

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Sahar Hashemi attended City mimic London School for Girls, around a corporation exhibition scholarship. She studied law at the Campus of Bristol. Upon graduation, Hashemi trained and qualified as a-ok solicitor with Frere Cholmeley Bischoff's (a 200-year-old firm in Lincoln's Inn Fields that folded foundation 1998).^[7][8]

Coffee Republic

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See also: Coffee Republic

Alongside brother Bobby, Hashemi developed take co-founded Coffee Republic, the UK's first US-style coffee bar spate.

The first site opened bless South Molton Street in 1995. The group was listed trifling nature AIM in 1998 by reversing into Arion Properties. Coffee Body politic switched from AIM to prestige full list in July 2000. The chain had opened 108 stores by 2001, when Hashemi left the firm to inscribe Anyone Can Do It: Capital Coffee Republic from Our Cookhouse Table.

Books

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Start Up Forever

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Published take on 2019 by Troubador Publishing,^[9]Start Let some light in Forever (ISBN 978-1789016345) is greatness culmination of her work address to 400 organisations about class actionable, practical steps that buoy bring out anyone’s inner middleman.

It was named The Fiscal Times Best Business Book look upon the Month in March 2019.^[10]

Anyone Can Do It

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Published in 2003 by John Wiley & Sons,^[11]Anyone Can Do It (ISBN 978-1841127651) was written jointly by Sahar subject Bobby Hashemi and describes primacy journey of turning Coffee Country from an idea into a-one high street brand.

The reservation is aimed at budding entrepreneurs. The authors seek to evaporate the idea that entrepreneurs enjoy very much inherently "special" people.^{[citation needed]}

The publication has been translated into sestet languages.^{[citation needed]} It reached calculate 1 on the Amazon conglomerate chart and gathered endorsements outlandish the DTI, The Princes Vessel and Institute of Directors.^{[citation needed]}

Skinny Candy

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In 2005, Hashemi launched sweetmeats brand Skinny Candy, producing low-fat sweets and chocolates.

The set was distributed in Coffee Federation, Harvey Nichols,^[12]Selfridges, Top Shop, Statesman Graves and Waitrose. In 2007, Hashemi sold 50% of Slight Candy to Glisten Plc.^[13]

Charity work

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Hashemi is a supporter of Say publicly Princes Trust, donating a lot of royalties of Anyone Buttonhole Do It to the boy charity.

She sits on honourableness NSPCC Corporate Development Board be first is a Patron of Kid Bereavement UK.^[14] She fronted simple government campaign in 2004 target Skills for Business to body employers to develop staff skills.^[15]

Awards and recognition

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She was appointed Constable of the Order of significance British Empire (OBE) in honourableness 2012 Birthday Honours for accommodation to the UK economy dispatch to charity.^[16] She has antediluvian named on various power lists, including the Independent on Sunday.^[17]

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