The company has been based in Monaco since 1986, specialising in the creation, operation and management of shopping centres in West and Central Africa. “ With three sons at home soon and a father and brother running the business alongside me, I was born to experience male-female complementarity on a daily basis!” This is how Johanna Houdrouge, Vice-President of Mercure International, laughingly describes herself. She wants to encourage all women to become entrepreneurs. Johanna Houdrouge is simultaneously Vice-President of Mercure International, President of the Association Monégasque des Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises and soon to be a mother of three.