{"id":506,"date":"2012-02-20T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/?p=506"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:15:19","slug":"yasmin-halai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/yasmin-halai\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasmin Halai: Ideal Solutions Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yasmin Halai<br>\nAge:<\/strong> 31<br>\n<strong>Company:<\/strong> Ideal Solutions Systems<\/p>\n<p>Halai spent seven years as a saleswomen before teaming up with brother Shabbir to launch Ideal Solutions Systems four years ago. The 42-person company supplies high quality, longer-lasting printer cartridges to businesses who require superior print finishes, such as insurance firms, solicitors, the travel industry and estate agents. Despite competing with Hewlett Packard it expects to generate &pound;3m this year and &pound;6m in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2016 update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to DueDil, Ideal Solutions Systems filed its last accounts in 2006 and has since been dissolved. In 2004, the entrepreneur married Bruce Carter, with both taking the name Halai-Carter. The couple founded First Impressions together in 2002 &ndash; a Croydon-based supplier of environmentally friendly office equipment. In 2008, they decided to rebrand the company as The Green Desk and expand its offering to a complete business service, helping other businesses improve their green credentials. This saw the company also start to donate its surpluses to charity, achieving &pound;500,000 turnover in its first year of trading under its new name and raising &pound;100,000 for charity &ndash; half to Women&rsquo;s Aid and the other half to other environmental projects. In 2012, the couple launched a new ethical venture called Ethstat: a social enterprise and one-stop shop for everything from printed letterheads, fairtrade cleaning supplies and biodegradable filing to recycled desks. Again, Ethstat&rsquo;s surplus income goes to charity.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasmin Halai Age: 31 Company: Ideal Solutions Systems Halai spent seven years as a saleswomen before teaming up with brother Shabbir to launch Ideal Solutions Systems four years ago. 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