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Young Enterprise Product Suggestions

Hey, im marketing director for young enterprise in my school. We are struggling in thinking of something which students (years 7 - 13) would like to buy. Also, something which would sell well in craft fayres etc.

Please post what you would like to be able to purchase from your school, try and be as inovative in your ideas as possible.

Also, before you post something like "why cant u think of this yourslef" etc etc, we are doing this soley for research and would like to see what YOU people want. Also dont critise me, because during the last two days we have won both the Young Enterprise Introduction Event competition and the SONY business Challange.

All ideas much appreciated.

Reply 1

Enchanté

14

Decent food lol no practical stuff i cannot think of anything at the moment i'll get back to you about it xx

Reply 2

Peter North

OP

lol im selling toast tomorrow to raise funds, we already have 65£ and we should increase that a lot from doing a tuck shop thingy

Reply 3

chupacabras

1

At my school they made candles, they charged about £2 each for one. They seemed to sell pretty well at christmas time.

Reply 4

BadKarma

Sell copies of the anarchist cookbook.
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chupacabras

At my school they made candles, they charged about £2 each for one. They seemed to sell pretty well at christmas time.

Candles?!! To Kids?!!? Crazy!

Reply 5

Peter North

OP

yeh we thought about candles, but as you rightly said, candles probably wont sell to kids

Reply 6

Swinely

2

if your marketing director then why would you still be looking for ideas if you've won? if you've won then your idea should already be good enough for the next round surely?

Reply 7

microwave69

1

glow sticks - always popular with year 7 - 9s.

Reply 8

supercat

2

A group at our school bulk bought candy canes; they ended up costing about 8p each and the sold them on for about 50p each :rolleyes:

It's a good plan for Christmas time! They made loads of money.

Reply 9

Ynox

11

if I recall correctly (and its a good 5 years since I did YE) you can't sell food stuffs :frown:

we did these wooden puzzles- were crap as they cost us a lot financially and in man hours to make them.

Thought about doing Tshirts or something?

Reply 10

toiletwall

yeah we can't sell food stuff unless it's packaged- however we rose loads of funds by doing a tuckshop.
My group are selling music mittens (and necklaces-but that is a minor product). They may sound lame but they're not! (They are like ipod socks but can be made for any size MP3 player). THEY ROCK, plus extremely popular. PM me if you want a pic.

Other ideas? hmm people always say personalised stuff goes down well, - personalised t-shirts is a good idea, and also last year the most successful two ideas were:
Calender (prof made) of teachers doing stuff around their subject-good for christmas market, some very funny pics, raised over 1000 pounds i think! e.g. music teacher lying provocatively on the piano (we have a big school, and teacher's have to agree etc) and other popular idea was making a cd of certain songs
Good luck- i know how you feel!

Reply 11

Ariadne

16

At my school we're doing t-shirts - any form of clothing is usually quite popular, especially hoodies, tracksuit bums or underwear :p:

Reply 12

microwave69

1

christmas ornaments! like angels or something...?

Reply 13

AngieM

Last year the company I was in made pyjamas. They were a big hit in the first few months, but after Years 7-9 had bought up there wasn't much more action. The other company in the year made playing cards featuring "local boys" (all girls' school!) and another deck with photos taken of Manchester. The latter did the best at all of the trade fairs we all went to.

A few years back, a neighbouring school's YE company managed to make thousands of pounds selling underwear and the managing directors now run the company themselves and make LOADSA MONEY :frown:

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Reply 14

toiletwall

We weren't allowed to do underwear because of hygiene reasons :frown:

sucks. Underwear is always popular.

Reply 15

Chewwy

17

our company's idea is amazing. basically we're importing around xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx from xxxxxxxx, and selling them to xxxxxxxxxx. we could literally make millions. why anyone would trust a company run by kids to do what we're doing i don't know, but i don't care either.

Reply 16

N9ne

7

chewwy

our company's idea is amazing. basically we're importing around xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx from xxxxxxxx, and selling them to xxxxxxxxxx. we could literally make millions. why anyone would trust a company run by kids to do what we're doing i don't know, but i don't care either.

You're importing millions of bananas and selling them to monkeys?

I wish I thought of that!

Reply 17

SketchyCanvas~

10

N9ne

You're importing millions of bananas and selling them to monkeys?

I wish I thought of that!

Reply 18

Peter North

OP

Swinely

if your marketing director then why would you still be looking for ideas if you've won? if you've won then your idea should already be good enough for the next round surely?