Name: Bhavana Satwani
Business Name: Aura Interiors LLC
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Establishment (Year): 2014
Profession/ Specialty: Interior Design and Fitout company
Company Detail:
Aura interiors is a turnkey fitout company specialized in commercial Interiors and has built more than 20 Restaurants, 50 offices, 2 gyms, 2 clinic's 3 Retail outlets. They provide an end to end solution right from designing to permissions to execution of all commercial spaces. They have their specialized and qualified team of project engineers, designers, carpenters, electrician, painters and a 3500 sqft joinery based in Dubai.
Unique Selling Proposition / Competitive Advantage:
The biggest challenge someone opening up a new venture in Dubai would be to save money on rentals which is huge. Aura have a record of completing 95% projects on time thus saving time and money for their clients.
Challenges faced during the Journey:
The eight year journey has been filled with enormous challenges and learnings. Right from when they have started to get the right team.
Over the years they have improvised on the recruitment process that has helped to take the right decisions. We also believe in collaborations and therefore have developed strong partners that have been working with us from day one.
Advice for Women Entrepreneurs:
Bhavana Satwani would like to advise to choose a right mentor that really helps as taking the right decisions at the right time can save time and money both.
She also advices to make sure to have the systems and process in place so that one can have this data collected. She says that it is more important to have a business plan, that can ensure to have goals, financial plans and risks in place.