Feb 17th of #BHM
Working out of her home in 1970, Mascoll launched Mascoll Beauty Supply Ltd. with $700 in start-up capital.
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https://spacing.ca/toronto/2020/02/26/beverly-mascoll-a-trailblazing-black-entrepreneur/
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Working out of her home in 1970, Mascoll launched Mascoll Beauty Supply Ltd. with $700 in start-up capital.
via @drcherylt.bsky.social
h/t @spacing.bsky.social
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2020/02/26/beverly-mascoll-a-trailblazing-black-entrepreneur/
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She opened her first store in 1973, becoming Johnson Products’ sole CDN distributor. By 1985, Mascoll Beauty Supply was a multi-million-dollar company supplying national chains. In 1996, she created the Beverly Mascoll Community Fdn to aid women & youth.
- @kidscanpress.bsky.social
Beverly came to Toronto with her family as a teenager. Working at a local beauty supply company, Beverly learned about the industry she would eventually redefine.
- Heritage Toronto
https://www.heritagetoronto.org/explore/beverly-mascoll-beauty-business/
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Order of Canada recipient Beverly Mascoll founded Mascoll Beauty Supply Ltd in 1970, becoming a leading distributor of Black beauty products in Canada. Check out the full series of @beddoart’s illustration series depicting historic Black Torontonians
https://buff.ly/3oPWGXx
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Beverly Mascoll recognized a significant gap in the marketplace; the scarcity of beauty products catering specifically to Black W & took it upon herself to launch Mascoll Beauty Supply Ltd. in 1970, which changed the country’s Black beauty industry.
https://nslaureates.ca/laureates/beverly-mascoll/#laureate__content
The Honourable Mayann Francis presented a speech written by Beverly Mascoll during the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame Induction Gala.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE_tWqZc-Xc
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From Nova Scotia to Toronto with just $700 and a dream, Beverly Mascoll shattered barriers to become the first Black woman to own a beauty supply store in the city in 1973. 🌟
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