Kicking Horse Coffee CEO ranked as a leading woman business owner

Kicking Horse Coffee CEO, Elana Rosenfeld, ranked as a leading woman business owner. —

Photo courtesy Kicking Horse Coffee.

Business paper, Business in Vancouver, has listed Invermere’s Kicking Horse Coffee as one of B.C.’s largest women-owned businesses. Elana Rosenfeld is 50 per cent owner of Kicking Horse Coffee and she was recognized as #20 on a list of the biggest B.C. businesses owned by women in province.

Rosenfeld is the CEO of the coffee producer, she shares ownership with her husband Leo Johnson. The company produces organic, fair-trade coffee and operates a local café at the Kicking Horse facilities, which employs 42 people.

The list was published by the newspaper, Business in Vancouver, and in an accompanying article the business paper stated that B.C. women are increasingly in the business drivers’ seat.

“Women entrepreneurship in B.C. continues to grow. Women comprise 47.6 per cent of the province’s total workforce as of July 2012. That’s up from 37.2 per cent in 1976, according to historical StatsCan data. According to the latest data, the proportion of self-employed women in B.C. nearly reached an all-time high in 2011, rising to 37.5 per cent of all self-employed people in the provincial workforce."