VERONICA PEDROSA, CNN ANCHOR: Starting your own business can be a risky venture, to say the least. So when an entrepreneur invests everything, and is rewarded with success, it's an occasion for applause. That's what happened for one Asian woman, who found her success in England. Lisa Mirando has her story.</s>LISA MIRANDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Madi Sharma was named the winner in the entrepreneur's category of the 2001 Asian Women of Achievement Awards.</s>MADI SHARMA, ENTERPENEUR: It's an absolute honor. As I was discussing with somebody the other day, when you are in business and you are self-employed, you don't get a promotion as if you were in a normal job. This to me is a promotion and a huge pat on the back.</s>MIRANDON: Madi began Original Eastern Foods seven years ago in her own kitchen in Nottingham, sales were meager, only four of the savory snacks, called samosas, a day. Today, she oversees one of Britain's largest manufacturers of Indian snack foods, a business worth an estimated half-million pounds. The company turns out 14,000 snacks every week, and the future is looking even busier.</s>SHARMA: We are just going down a million-pound expansion program, so we are having a new factory facility built. That will then give us the potential to go and supply the supermarkets, where turnover will be at least a hundred thousand products per hour.</s>MIRANDON: Madi is hoping that all the recognition she's getting will help her lobbying efforts to win more funding for other small businesses.</s>SHARMA: It is great not only for my business, it is great for the people that I employ, it is great for my family who have supported me, and it's great for the city of Nottingham. Lisa Mirando for INSIDE ASIA.
Asian Woman Finds Her Success in England