First aid kit for pets wins school business award
Published: May 28, 2007
A first aid kit for dogs and a celebrity cookbook took the honours at a school business plan competition, finals of which were held at the Sport and Rugby Institute on the Palmerston North campus on Thursday.
The Youth Enterprise Scheme competition requires teams from secondary schools to prepare and implement a business plan for an innovative product or service.
A team from Freyberg High School called “Petaid” won the best written presentation, while “De’vine Enterprise” from Palmerston North Girls’ High School won the award for best oral presentation.
Petaid submitted a business plan for a comprehensive first aid kit for dogs, called Pet Vet, developed with help from Dr Frazer Allan from the University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and ProVet, a veterinary goods supplier. The students, James Stewart, Jessie Brooker, Jason Geange, Sok Lach and Anthony Burkin, received cash prizes from ASB Bank and InSpire.net.
De’vine Enterprise’s business idea was a celebrity cookbook that included healthy recipes from New Zealand’s “favourite people”. The company’s board of directors, Jess Nelson, Kelsey Pilbrow, Aleisha Beck, Casey Foster and Kirstie Stewart, received $1000 of radio advertising from Radioworks.
The YES scheme involves Year 12 and 13 students in an experiential business programme during which they set up their own company and run it throughout the year, creating products/services, implementing marketing plans, earning money, paying tax and keeping profits.
The University’s College of Business is a supporter of scheme, which is run by Vision Manawatu, working with the Enterprise New Zealand Trust. The College provided judges Barrie Humphries, Dr Colin Higgins and Lindsay Hawkes for the written business plans as well as event facilities and teacher training.
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