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Anne ATS celebrates birthday with gratitude, marking another year of success and happiness

By Guardian Nigeria

08 March 2023   |   12:11 am

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Life is best lived with understanding; a very profound requirement for a successful and happy sojourn on earth. It is with this deep sense of wisdom UK-based Nigerian entrepreneur and boutique owner, Anne Namgbeh, popularly known as Anne ATS, decided to count her days by smiles, not tears, and age by friends, not years, as she marked…

Anne ATS

Life is best lived with understanding; a very profound requirement for a successful and happy sojourn on earth. It is with this deep sense of wisdom UK-based Nigerian entrepreneur and boutique owner, Anne Namgbeh, popularly known as Anne ATS, decided to count her days by smiles, not tears, and age by friends, not years, as she marked another birthday.

Anne ATS, as she is fondly called by friends and associates, celebrated witnessing another year on March 7th, 2023, with immense gratitude to God and her parents.

The hardworking beauty is the owner of ATS Hair and ATS Boutique located in the UK. Her ATS Hair boasts of the best varieties of hair extensions ranging from Brazilian, Peruvian, Indian Remi, Malaysian hair and braids.

The Edo-born entrepreneur is a Business Management graduate of De Montfort University in Leicester, England. The ATS Boutique specialises in selling clothing and fashion accessories for women and children.

Anne ATS might be physically far from Nigeria, but she is well known in the celebrity circle, with the stylist and fashion consultant having worked with a number of music and fashion celebrities such as Kcee, Tiwa Savage, among others.

The woman entrepreneur, who is also a brand influencer, has worked with reputable companies including Fashionnova, BoomBod, Diva Boutique, VIP Chauffeur Car Hire, Femmeluxe and CQ Beauty in the country.

Anne ATS expressed on her social media page how grateful she is to witness another year and shared several glowing pictures to commemorate the day.

“Happy birthday to me. I thank God and my parents for creating such an incredible human being. May my days be filled with joy and fortune. Cheers to a new age”, wrote Anne Namgbeh.

“Today, I am having my cake and eating it too. Calories are non-existent on birthdays.”

Anne ATS is a wardrobe consultant, epitomises strength, courage, leadership, determination, perseverance, focus and a role model to her generation and those coming behind. She is sixth of seven siblings and at a young age of 13, she moved to the UK with her sisters for a new phase of life.

After graduating from college and doing a regular job that paid her bills, her self-determination kicked in which she obliged and began her journey to becoming business savvy and an independent woman.

Recalling in a recent interview how she started as an entrepreneur, which now also includes worldwide delivery, shipment and distributors in Lagos and Abuja, Anne ATS said:

“As an entrepreneur, one of my toughest decision was quitting my job. Quitting a job is hard because first, you have to think about how you’re going to tell your boss you’re quitting. Quitting was particularly tough for me because I loved my job and that job paid my bills.

“Also I didn’t know what challenges were ahead of me but I believed in my dream and that made it somewhat easy for me. I knew in order to be successful I had to make some if not many sacrifices and quitting my job was one of the sacrifices I had to make.

“Funding the business was another tough process because we didn’t make a profit for the first six months. Getting my products into the market was not as hard because, at the time, there were not many social media so I targeted universities and shopping malls. I would go to universities and malls to distribute my business cards and then I got referrals from there.”

“We first opened ATS Hair which is a hair extension company. We have varieties of hair extensions ranging from Brazilian, Peruvian, Indian Remi, Malaysian hair and braids.

“After 6 years of successfully running ATS Hair company, we decided to expand the company and so we opened ATS Boutique which is an online company and specialises in high quality clothes and accessories for Women and Children”, added Anne ATS.