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We were given the opportunity to sell at different events
ROAD SAFETY KIT such as the Christmas Craft Fair in The Backyard Cavan
We are a TY Mini Company and our annual Christmas Craft Fair in school. We also sold
consisting of six students. to friends and family. Our company attended the Student
Jamie McDowell, Pierce Enterprise Regional Finals in the Slieve Russell Hotel, where
Hannick, Max Carey, Lloyd we set up a stand to showcase our business and had judges
Hastings, Cian Flint and James interview the team members.
Graham. Our Mini Company
sells Road Safety Kits. Our Overall it was a great experience for the members of the
Managing Director is Jamie, company and we all really enjoyed it. We learned valuable
our Product Manager is skills within the programme, such as how to perform better
Pierce, our Sales Manager is Lloyd, our Purchasing Manager in a team based environment and how to sell our product to
is James, our Marketing Manager is Max and our Finance consumers in the real world. As well as receiving an insight
Manager is Cian. to the world of entrepreneurship.
After many classes of brainstorming, we decided to make
an emergency kit for cars that would not only aid you in
the event of an accident (minor or major) but would be
simple to use as well. We decided on the ‘Road Safety Kit’
when trying to come up with something beneficial for the
public in the event of a car emergency. We had a large target
market as many people on the roads today drive older cars
which don’t come equipped with safety kits or have been
lost over time. Our product is packaged in a strong, durable
plastic box which are water tight to keep your gear dry.
Road Safety Kit is a motoring safety company that ensures
drivers, experienced and non-experienced, have the right
equipment that they may need in the event of an accident.
Our Road Safety Kit is available in two sizes, small and large,
and include a range of products such as an ice scraper, tyre
fix, a first aid kit, a high-viz jacket, a tyre pressure gauge, a
de-icer, an LED torch and a glass breaker.

We held another car wash in April which was another great
SPIC & SPAN success for us.
We are a TY mini-company
consisting of five pupils, Overall, all our hard work, effort and dedication meant that
Andrew Hudson, Adam our mini company was a resounding success which resulted
Fuller, Craig Ebbitt, Daniel in us having a profit of €400, which we divided evenly
Moorhead and Michael- among us all.
James Metcalfe. The whole Mini Company experience was a huge part
We assigned Andrew of our TY and certainly one of the highlights and most
the role of Managing Director, Adam was the Production interesting and exciting things we took part in this year.
manager, Craig was the Sales manager, Daniel was Marketing We learned many valuable lessons and skills, such as
manager and Michael-James was the Finance manager. teamwork, communication and organisation. It is sure to be
an experience we will never forget.
Our idea was to create a convenient and affordable car
cleaning kit, which contained all the essentials needed By Michael-James Metcalfe
to clean your car. This kit would save our customers from
having to buy loads of items as they could instead get
everything in one place.
We decided to put our product on sale for the affordable
price of €20. We purchased our products from a website we
found online. We bought in bulk in order to get a good deal
and improve our efficiency as a company.
We quickly came to the realisation that purchasing all our
stock would be quite costly, so we decided to hold a car
wash in our school in order to raise initial funds.
We attended the Christmas Craft Fair in cavan to sell our
goods and this went extremely well. Our affordable car
cleaning kits were proving to be a success with customers.

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