Mrs. Grace Amey-Obeng

Grace is the founder of the Grace Amey-Obeng foundation, a not-for-profit organization established to aid less privileged women. She says “The joy of putting smiles on the faces of people that this business offers, that’s what makes me want to do it forever; Women leaders should offer a helping hand to less fortunate women, encourage them and share expertise.”

Her FC Group of Companies – which includes a beauty clinic, a firm that supplies salon equipment and cosmetics, and a college, now has eight branches in Ghana and exports to Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

This woman of excellence has won dozens of accolades and industry awards for her skincare beauty products and marketing. Like The CIMG Marketing Woman of the Year in 2002; the GAWE awards by the Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs in November 2003; the Nobles International Award presented by West Africa Nobles Forum in November 2003, the Silver Award for Technology, the Industrial Pinnacle Awards in 2004 and the ACE Awards in 2004.