The luxury brand of British award-winning toiletries and gifts ‘Winter in Venice’ has earned a place in FT 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022. Sri Lankan born Ermila Jayasuriya-Curtis is the Founder and Managing Director of WIV Global Ltd. and WIV Property Holding Ltd. in the UK.
The survey was carried out by Statista, the research partner of the Financial Times. The FT 1000 is the result of a joint initiative by The Financial Times and Statista, which conducted months of research, public calls for participation, intensive database research and directly contacted tens of thousands of companies in Europe. In the end, Statista was able to identify outstanding companies among millions of European enterprises.
“Winter in Venice clearly stood out and, as a result, will be publicly recognised in the FT as one of Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies” – James Bacon, Statista UK. The results of the survey for the fastest growing companies in Europe was published earlier this month.
Statista, the Global No. 1 Business Data Platform, provides current market figures and forecasts for the most important consumer goods within a total of more than 200 markets. All key figures are internationally comparable and are based on extensive analyses of data from national and international statistical offices, associations, company reports and the trade press.
The brand was the brain wave of Ermila, a then 23-year-old student who mustered the courage to set up a manufacturing and distribution company three years later. At age 26 with an investment of just 60 pounds and a phone book, she made her first million in one year.
Sixteen years later this self-made British multi-millionaire reflects on the many life lessons taught having navigated through a recession during the infancy of her business, and in more recent years the global pandemic that engulfed the world.
