Shaping Saskatchewan: Rachel Mielke

Rachel Mielke has ever had a passionateness for plan and creativity.

However, the Regina autochthonal ne'er rather imagined those interests would blossom into the instauration of 1 of the astir well-known jewellery brands successful Canada.

She launched Hillberg & Berk successful 2007 successful downtown Regina. Looking back, Mielke admits it was antithetic that she believed she could commencement the marque from a smaller centre — specified arsenic Regina — alternatively than a larger metropolis arsenic different fashionable brands had done.

But it was religion some from her parent and from wrong that helped motivate her to instrumentality that chance.

“I’ve ever had this innate assurance and content successful what I could execute due to the fact that of I deliberation my narration with my mom,” Mielke said. “My ma was perpetually reinforcing maine to pursuit my dreams and judge successful myself and her judge successful myself.”

And that hazard resulted successful reward for Mielke, whose travel is recognized wide successful the concern assemblage arsenic a singular communicative successful gathering a homegrown Canadian brand.

Today, Hillberg & Berk has expanded to 15 locations crossed Canada, and 95 per cent of employees are women oregon non-binary.

“What I ever similar to accidental is it really was similar my concealed limb to commencement successful Saskatchewan. The enactment that Hillberg & Berk got from the assemblage was phenomenal.”

Another concealed limb that Mielke flexed was her enactment skills. Mielke’s occurrence communicative solidified her arsenic a starring pistillate entrepreneur from Saskatchewan.

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While it’s bully quality to spot her institution proceed to expand, Mielke says what is important to her is to deliberation beyond conscionable increasing a concern and profitability.

“I deliberation a batch astir giving backmost and however our concern impacts our employees, their acquisition successful the world, our community, the environment. So reasoning astir those things, arsenic each entrepreneur should, is thing that truly tin assistance animate and nonstop radical who mightiness beryllium reasoning astir getting into business,” Mielke said.

“I anticipation that tin besides animate radical to commencement a concern that is possibly much focused connected doing bully successful the satellite than conscionable growth.”

Hillberg & Berk says it commits 1 per cent of yearly gross successful donations and jewellery to section and nationalist partners successful an effort that “ensures our partners are prioritized careless of our profitability.”

“We unrecorded our intent of supporting self-identified women to scope their imaginable done everything we do.”