woman who left england penniless is now worth
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Oct 29, 2006
7:50 AM
by Anonymous
This article is taken and adapted from "New Headway Upper Intermediate" - OUP, pages 38-39.
Trascrizione compiuta da Anna Valdemarca e Cristina Zappin.
Woman who left England penniless is now worth £ 20 m
A British woman, who went to Australia with very little money four years ago, has sold her business for £20 million.
Cherry Haines, 39, who once worked as a market stallholder made all of her fortune from marketing a new kind of make-up. She left England because there wasn't much employment, caught a flight to the other side of the world, and arrived with no qualifications and very few friends.
'The flight took every penny I had. At first, I stayed with a friend. Then I had a bit of luck.' The friend gave her the name of Peter Maddox, an Australian businessman. 'I rang him and told him I was the best salesperson in England and that he should give me a job.' He liked her idea for a kind of make-up that stays on the whole day, so together they formed a company to market it. At first, she wasn't earning much, but soon she was getting over A$200,000 a year. 'Hard work means happiness to me,' she said.
Her brother, Roger Haines, who is spending three weeks with her in Brisbane, said, 'She left school when she was 16. She had hardly any work experience. But she could sell a fridge to an Eskimo. She's amazing!'
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Trascrizione compiuta da Anna Valdemarca e Cristina Zappin.
Woman who left England penniless is now worth £ 20 m
A British woman, who went to Australia with very little money four years ago, has sold her business for £20 million.
Cherry Haines, 39, who once worked as a market stallholder made all of her fortune from marketing a new kind of make-up. She left England because there wasn't much employment, caught a flight to the other side of the world, and arrived with no qualifications and very few friends.
'The flight took every penny I had. At first, I stayed with a friend. Then I had a bit of luck.' The friend gave her the name of Peter Maddox, an Australian businessman. 'I rang him and told him I was the best salesperson in England and that he should give me a job.' He liked her idea for a kind of make-up that stays on the whole day, so together they formed a company to market it. At first, she wasn't earning much, but soon she was getting over A$200,000 a year. 'Hard work means happiness to me,' she said.
Her brother, Roger Haines, who is spending three weeks with her in Brisbane, said, 'She left school when she was 16. She had hardly any work experience. But she could sell a fridge to an Eskimo. She's amazing!'
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