Young women aspiring to entrepreneurial status can count on useful business advice!

As member of the exquisite Businesswomen Club "Financiarul" magazine, Irina Socol, President & CEO of SIVECO Romania, along with the other 11 ladies in the club, managers of successful businesses in Romania, have chosen the winners of the competition initiated by the daily Financiarul - "Mărţişorul* of 50,000 Euro".

After attentive selection and evaluation of the 84 projects registered in the competition, the jury has decided that "Pixie Shoes", a project of shoes creation carried out by Sânziana Năstase and Eva Strat, is the winner project.

The Businesswomen Club "Financiarul" magazine was launched in 2009 through a generous initiative. 12 famous ladies from Romanian business (Bianca Dordea - BRD-GSG, Georgeta Şerban - Graal Medical, Rodica Sfâca - Ronex Prod, Cristina Bâtlan - Musette, Rucsandra Hurezeanu - Ivatherm, Dana Jianu - ProEstetica, Cătălina Stan - BDR Associates, Monica Tatoiu - Oriflame, Doris Carmen Andronescu - Sanador, Irina Socol - SIVECO Romania, Maria Grapini - Pasmatex, Mihaela Nicola - The Group) have contributed to the publishing of a calendar.

From the money obtained through bidding this calendar, the Club has decided to finance the businesses of young women entrepreneurs. This way came out the project contest having as prize 50,000 Euro.

More details about the contest can be found on www.financiarul.ro.

*Mărţişor = token gift in honour of March 1st. Mărţişor is the traditional celebration of the beginning of the spring in Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria on 1st of March. The day's name is the diminutive of March (in Romanian Martie), and thus means something like "little" or "dear March". Nowadays, men offer women a talisman object also called Mărţişor, consisting of a jewel or a small decoration like a flower or a heart, tied to a red and white string.