With the slogan “From nature to you” Agata, Elizabeta and Ariana three female entrepreneurs from Pristina at “Sacro” their small shop – offer to Kosovars local and imported bio organic food

Every time that Agata Çetta a designer from Pristina would discuss with her friends about healthy food they could not avoid the question why a store that offers healthy food is not yet opened in the Kosovo capital. A lot of discussions, many questions and market research about the need for a shop with BIO products lasted nearly a year until Agata with her two friends decided to launch their joint business – “Sacro” the first shop with bio food in Pristina.

At Sacro one can buy Bio products  

A lot of discussions, many questions and market research about the need for a shop with BIO products lasted nearly a year until Agata with her two friends decided to launch their joint business – “Sacro” the first shop with bio food in Pristina.

Eating healthy and bringing innovations to the market is the main reason why Agata Çetta, Elizabeta Oroshi and Ariana Vala Kurteshi  decided to enter into partnerships and start this healthy business.

With own forces
However these three female entrepreneurs have not participated in any training about how to write and prepare a business plan, or how to properly organize their partnership.  Before starting this business they have moslty received advices from other women entrepreneurs. “We started with our own forces and we spoke with some women who have had their own businesses and they have given us encouragement and support,” says Agata, adding that now they are planning  to expand the supply of organic products in their shop.

Agata Çetta together with her assitant Daniela Çoça and her business partner Elizabeta Oroshi

“Health has been the first reason why we started this business, to offer to the consumers something that was qualitative but also beautifully presented thus not only healthy but also prepared and presented in a nicer way”, she says while adding that the three partners being from different professional bacgrounds they complement each other. “Ariana has experience wth bio products, Elizabeth is an  economist, and I am a designer and this is why we function well,” says Agata.

25 different typs of tea can be found at Sacro 

After numerous discussions in early January 2012 Agata, Elizabeth and Ariana have finalized the idea and started to search for organic products.

“For start the business is very good, people in Kosovo haveacceptes this as an idea that was missing in the Kosovo market. It has made an sensation”,  says Çetta who works as a designer at the Kosovo Post-Telecom.  These three female entrepreneurs together with their assistant Daniela Çoça provide also information about how the productsthey sell coud be combined for a better health and a balanced nutrition. They refresh every day  their Facebook page with information about products they trade.

Sacro offers bio products from Kosovo and from import 

Bio Products from Kosovo and abroad
The majority of products offered in the shop “Sacro” according to Elizabeta Oroshi are mainly from Kosovo. Among the products sold there are offered 9 different honey flavors and 25 different types of tea. “Sacro” offers several other products – like mushrooms  from Kamenica that have a bio licence from Germany. Also at the store of these three female entrepreneurs is offered organic flour milled in the traditional way.
“We want to expand our offer with different seasonings because consumer interest is growing especially for Asian seasonings,” says Elizabeta, stressing that Pristina has plenty of foreigners who want to buy Asian seasonings. Seventy percent of the products at the “Sacro” are from Kosovo while the rest is imported mainly from Turkey and Macedonia.

3 Advices from Agata, Elizabeta, and Ariana for future female entrepreneurs

1) Do not judge yourself

2) Use your creativity and start immediately

3) Bring innovation