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Bijou

We are Bijou – We consist of Keziah
Mahiya, Esther Olujitan, Claire Turner,
Inesa Dubaviciute, Jodie Chapman,
Soha Aman, Whitney Eguakun and
Shoko Odaka. Our enterprise project
was to produce high quality jewellery.
Our chosen target market is young girls as well as older ladies.
The raw materials we used to consummate our jewellery were
from different parts of the world such as China, Africa and
Lithuania; we did this in order to inter-mingle our cultures
together as our group is very multi-cultural.
We are now advertising our products in the local shops in our
town. We sold our products in numerous places which included Half Full Productions
the Christmas craft fairs in school, outside of school to family
and friends, and at the Cavan Enterprise Competition. At the
Enterprise competition which was held in the Slieve Russell In September 2014 we formed a Minicomapny called “Half
hotel in Cavan; we had to leave the school at 7:45 and once we Full”. Our members consist of: George Marshall, Mark Noble,
arrived we had to set up our stall. We displayed our jewellery Octavian Carey, Craig Stratford, Nathan Elis and Sultan Adelke.
and hung our laminated business report on the wall. We were We designed and made an Android app. We designed a game
then interviewed by the judges and Cavan TV. The afternoon that most people can play but mostly aimed at children. We
then led to an awards ceremony where the winners in each advertised our app via Facebook, YouTube and promotions. We
category were announced. entered two Minicompany competitions through the year. We
had to prepare in the lead up to the completion during which
This Enterprise project was a very good and useful experience we had to draw up a report,
for us. It has showed different aspects of owning our own and make up presentations.
business and how we deal with various parts of having a We were very happy with our
business such as production, finance and many more. app as we achieved over 80
downloads and gained many
useful skills, for example:
People skills, organisational
and management skills.

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