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simple packaging design. All of our packaging was spray came around to our stall we greeted them and explained the
painted by hand and the finishing details were added once aims of our Mini Company. We explained that our products
the paint dried. Our products come in a range of different are made of all natural ingredients. We also showed them
colours and fragrances. The colours change the water colour a demonstration of how our product works by placing one
to make the bath more appealing. The fragrances include of our bath bombs in a basin of water. Although we did not
peppermint and eucalyptus these help with stress relief and win the competition, a good day was had by all.
they create a calm relaxing environment.
We attended a craft just before Christmas. This craft fair
was a great way to show people what our Mini Company
provides and to make some sales along the way. The craft
fair helped us spread the word. We made six sales at this
craft fair selling both boxes of our products and individual
bath bombs.
We attended the student enterprise competition in the
Slieve Russell hotel on the 8th of March 2017. At this
competition we set up a display that showcased our Mini
Company very well.
We explained what our Mini Company was about to people
passing by our stall throughout the day. When the judges

STANFA

We are a Transition Year Mini Company named STANFA decided that our target market was
our team comprised of Stephen Wilson, Tim Palmer, Adam senior cycle students.
Pringle, Nojus Matusevicius, Fredrick Elliot and Aaron Wood.
By the first two months, we made
Our Mini Company makes hard folder dividers out of rigid around 20 dividers. By the end of
polystyrene and our goal as a company is to make long last the year, we made around 30 dividers. We got some orders
folder dividers that will last people from first year to the end from some teachers that they wanted buy our dividers; we
of leaving cert. We developed this idea as at the start of the sold 10 by 2017 and made around €20.
year as we had low quality subject dividers, which ripped, tore We made them by buying rigid polystyrene, which is a
and fell out of our folders. This annoyed our class members so thermoplastic. We got an already existing folder divider
we decided to make high quality subject dividers.
and used that as the template and we cut out the shapes
Adam Pringle our sales manager brought up the idea of using hegner saws and file the corners and edges that are
putting notes on the back of the dividers making the folders imperfect to get the best product possible and we used a
more unique to our company. As a group, we started to make hole punch to make sure that all the holes were uniform.
decisions as to what the dividers where going to look like This company has helped us all become closer and more
so we started to make sketches. We started to order plastic efficient then we were before. We are hoping that we will
online to start our work. We started to cut out the dividers be able to continue this company at a later date because
out. We used hegner saws to cut out the dividers accurately. we really enjoyed working as a team and we believe this
We then used the pillar drill to cut holes for our dividers. company can be profitable in the future. We are hoping the
For our notes, we used high quality labels, which contained get in touch with Easons or another shop that will sell our
useful information pertaining to the individual subjects.
products to spread our name and help us achieve a greater
For our research, we gave out surveys to leaving cert profit than we could get from selling it on our own.
students and teachers. From the results of the surveys, we

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