Twenty years ago, Jo Horgan, chief executive of cosmetics giant Mecca, realized something had to give. “I had my first child and I was trying to juggle everything and I thought, ‘This is hard. I need to think outside the box here and make this manageable.

Mecca now has more than 100 stores, and with a combined wealth of $812 million, Horgan and her husband and business partner Peter Wetenhall have a place on the rich list of the financial review. But twenty years ago, the business – and Horgan’s newborn – were respectively in their infancy. She felt overwhelmed.

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