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Miss Bunting

Our Mini company was formed
in September 2015 and it is
comprised of five members. We
decided to make bunting for
personal and educational use. We came up with our mini
company idea as we noticed just how popular bunting has
become. It is very popular in homes and at various events.
We noticed a gap in the market for personalised bunting
in our local area and thought it would be a good idea to
make some of our own. We distributed surveys to see if the
rest of the community thought that our mini company was
as good as we thought it was. To broaden our customer
base, we thought it would be beneficial to incorporate an letters onto the the triangle and sewed them on. We then
educational aspect to our mini company. It also helped the sewed the triangles on to some bias binding so that it could
children to learn as it was a great visual aid and different to be hung up. We made the educational by printing off the
everyday posters. We placed an order form on the back of design, cutting it out, laminating it, punching holes at the
the survey to encourage them to buy something. We got top and placing it on to string.
great feedback and many orders from the schools.
We made many products for a wide range of occasions such
Our first step in production was to source our materials. We as, weddings, birthdays, Christmas, Easter, hen parties and
had many of the fabrics at home before we began our mini numerous products for children’s rooms. We made Irish,
company and we mainly used recycled material such as, French, Maths and English bunting for schools. We used
old shirts. However, we often bought clothes from charity themes and colour schemes to match the occasion, the
shops in order to help the charity and to be environmentally decor and the colour schemes, as requested.
friendly. We made the fabric bunting by using a template There was a high demand for our product and “Miss Bunting”
to cut out the triangle. We then pressed and hemmed the have sales so far of €1,132. We were awarded best display
triangle. Next, we made a letter template on the computer, in the Senior category in the Cavan Student Enterprise
printed it off and cut it out. We then pinned the template Awards along with €100. We also attended the Get up and
on to the felt and cut it out. Following this, we pinned the
Go competition where we came first for our accounts and
second for sustainability.
We gained many new skills during our mini company
experience. We have learned to communicate within the
team, we developed our I.T. skills when producing our
paper bunting, we learned to use our initiative to be able
to complete our orders and we came to understand the
importance of work ethic to meet our deadlines. We also
became proficient at machine sewing.
We would like to thank Mr. Robertson for his help
throughout the year.

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