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May 27th, 2010
Entrepreneurs of the future were rewarded for their business skills at a Grimsby Telegraph-backed celebration and awards evening.
The young Enterprise Humber Sub-region company programme reached its climax at the ceremony, held at the Forest Pines Hotel and Golf resort near Scunthorpe.
The programme allows secondary school pupils and college students from across the region to set up their own real-life companies, creating a product and attempting to make a profit.
North East Lincolnshire was represented in the Humber final by two teams, Epic Badges and Kirsty and Co, both from Tollbar Business, Enterprise and Humanities College.
Kirsty and Co, which made a 98 per cent profit selling items such as personalised key rings, scooped the award for Best North East Lincolnshire Company.
The team's marketing director, Charlotte Trench, 14, said: "I think we have gained a lot of teamwork skills and time management skills and improved our business and entrepreneurial skills in general.
"It has been a really good learning curve."
Finance director Emily Durrant, 15, added: "It has gone very well and been very enjoyable."
"The programme has been very beneficial because you get to meet a lot of business people and contacts that could help you in the future.
"It is very beneficial to you. It can also go on your CV and it is an enjoyable thing to do."
The awards evening saw a total of 26 prizes handed out to teams from North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The main award, for Humber Sub-region Company of the Year, went to Stem Enterprise, from Hymers College in Hull.
Article from The Grimsby Telegraph - Thursday May 20th 2010
