8:40am Saturday 13th March 2010
By Kevin Bradford
YOUNG entrepreneurs from schools across north and west London will be putting their business skills to the test by attempting to sell products at Brent Cross today.
The groups of students have been working with Young Enterprise to create and run their own companies over the past four months.
Organisers said the participants, aged 15 to 19, have managed to develop a wide rage of products such as books, T-shirts, and jewellery, and they will go head to head in a sales push this weekend at Brent Cross shopping centre.
The pupils, some from schools in Harrow, Barnet and Brent, will gain first hand experience of running a business which includes electing a board of directors, marketing, financing and then selling the products and services in the community.
Ten companies each day will be testing the success of their business by operating in a “live and competitive market environment” in two malls of the shopping centre.
Michele McKendry, director of Young Enterprise London, said: “Our research shows that participants of the Young Enterprise Company Programme are more passionate than their peers about their jobs, twice as likely to go on to become entrepreneurs, and more likely to get involved in voluntary work.
“We are grateful to Brent Cross shopping centre for supporting this weekend's trade fair and allowing these young entrepreneurs to get a sense of how the market place works."
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