Congratulations to Griffith University alumni in the running for the prestigious Cosmopolitan 2017 Women of the Year Awards.
Griffith Business School graduates Sarah Schoeller and Marissa Bowden are founders of the now iconic The Village Markets at Burleigh Heads and are nominated in the category of Entrepreneur of the Year.
Sarah told the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper about the origins of the markets nine years ago.
“Marissa and I worked together for a finance company in marketing and we used to talk about how the Gold Coast didn’t have a great fashion market,” she said.
“When we were made redundant (during the Global Financial Crisis) we had some time on our hands. We’d been to some great markets in London and Sydney, so we decided to put our own flair on it and focused on local designers, live music and street food.”
The markets have been a huge success in themselves, and designers among the earliest
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