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An Enterprising Year for our Young Businesspeople
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This has been another very
successful session for the
two Young Enterprise
Companies, made up of a
number of S5 pupils.
Celebrity cookbooks
(Storm), Watson's teddy
bears and novelty playing
cards (Idol) were all
very successfully developed
and marketed. Along the
way both companies
experienced many of the
pressures and problems
encountered in business:
meeting sales targets,
maintaining the cohesion
of business teams, supplier
problems. Storm under MD Gavin Crawford was very successfull at
using supplier contacts coupled with some very innovative marketing
enabling them to donate profits of over £1000 to Children in Need. Idol,
led by MD Fiona Wilson using two product centred teams, pursued a more risky strategy, consequently learning much about team dynamics
in business.
The session culminated with a presentation evening to determine the
Lothian Young Enterprise Awards. Once again both teams participated
fully in the programme of events with Storm coming away with high
placings in many of the categories led by David Walker's success as
Best Personnel Director. Both groups also sat the University of
Strathclyde Young Enterprise exam which resulted with Fiona Wilson
and Carol Crawford achieving distinction (top 4% of entrants) and
most of the others gaining Credit passes.
Many many thanks must also go to the business advisors to both
companies: Alan Melvin (Napier University) and Judith Ballantine
(Scottish Executive) for Storm, and Mike Timmins, Kelly McKerrow and
Chris Clark (all from Ernst and Young) for Idol.
The Storm team consisted of: Gavin Crawford, Archna Bhartdwaj,
Lindsay Blair, Tori Clark, Emma Clarke, Meryl Downie,
Natasha Grieve, Laura Harvey, Sarah Kwan, Karen MacGilchrist
and Michael Sammels.
The Idol team consisted of: Fiona Wilson, Alex Alves, Greig
Brash, Zara Christie, Carol Crawford, Ronald Dempster,
Johnny Elliot, Rachael Falla, Kieran Hennigan, Jessie Parsons,
Mikael Robbie, David Walker and Anna Weston.
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