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Name It

This year ‘Name It’ was time, unfortunately ‘Name It’ didn’t place in the competition
established as a Transition but we were pleased with our effort throughout the year.
year Mini Company. The There is still great hope for ‘Name It’ in the future as it is a
aim of the company was profitable business with a lot of potential.
to personalise clothing All in all it proved to be a very good experience, as setting
using embroidery. Products up a company is both challenging and rewarding. It has
included stockings, baby highlighted the hard work and dedication needed to
bibs, baby blankets etc. The members of the company succeed in business. Everyone involved agrees that they
included Hope Jameson (Managing Director), Lorraine have learned a lot from forming the company.
Trenier (Sales), Dawn Smyth (Finance) and Aisling Kells
(Marketing). From September onwards the company Aisling Kells
have sold in school to teachers and pupils and at home to
neighbours and friends. To promote ‘Name It’ a Facebook
page was created and posters were displayed around the
school. At Christmas in the backyard in Cavan there was a
craft fair, all the Mini Companies set up their products to sell
them and hopefully make a profit. Personalised stockings
were very popular on the day and fortunately ‘Name It’ made
a reasonable profit and left with some potential customers.
It was a long day but everybody was happy to be there.
After the Christmas break, all effort was put into preparing
for our competition which was fast approaching. Each
company had to prepare a business plan before the
competition which was held in the Slieve Russell in March.
The judges talked to each company for a short period of Dawn, Hope, Victoria & Lorraine

The Baby Sitting Guide

In first year Mr Robertson gave us the opportunity to set up Each person in the group took over a particular job, either as
and run a Mini company for the year. We got together a group Manager, in charge of Finance, production or sales. We got the
of 5 girls and after some brainstorming of ideas we decided to cover professionally printed and we sourced and printed all of
produce a guide to babysitting for 2nd level students seeking to the useful information in it ourselves.
make money caring for children. We had wanted to do a book We sold our books in school, to family and friends and before
of some description, but felt it needed to be unique, not just a Christmas we went to a craft fair where we were very successful.
recipe book, as these were already freely available.
On March 6th 2012 the day of the big competition in the
Slieve Russell came. We had to be there early to set up for the
Judges to come around and view our stand. We were nervous
but our interview went really well and when the awards were
announced we won 2nd place for the best Junior Mini Company
in all of Co. Cavan. We were thrilled with the award and the cash
prize and trophy.
We have future plans of how to develop our product and get an
online presence and to further our entrepreneurial skills and are
already looking forward to Mini Company again in TY!

Mariyam Haneen

Pictured L-R: Kate Agaba, Mariyam Mujeeb, Enimofe Elegbede, Sonia Cahill,
Hamna Akhtar & Esther Olujitan.

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