GEW2011 at Lancaster University
2011
Competition & Awards at Lancaster Student Enterprise awards 2011:
Friday the 18th November saw the Student Enterprise Awards 2011 evening at Lancaster University.
And the winners were:
Student Enterprise of the Year:
This award celebrated students who have not only been enterprising in behaviours and mindset but have taken that entrepreneurial plunge and have started a business whilst still studying at Lancaster University.
The winner was:
Black Zest Solutions Limted – Sarah Cooper
Sarah established Black Zest Solutions in late 2010 whilst in her final year studying full time towards a degree in Marketing Management. Black Zest Solutions is a full service marketing and design agency providing services from marketing consultancy, copy writing, websites development, brochure and logo design. In its first year of trading the company had a turnover of £30,000 and has turned over £26,000 in the first six months of this year.
Highly commended: Costumeless Ltd – Sepi Arain and Jack Nelson
Costumeless provides a one stop shop solutions for all your fancy dress needs. From a stall in Alexandra Square and an via their website they sold over £3000 in the first few weeks and have projected turnover of £40,000 this year. Both Sepi and Jack are full time students at Lancaster University.
Enterprising Alumni Award:
This award celebrated recent graduates from Lancaster University who have taken that entrepreneurial step and started companies that are having a real impact in the marketplace, in society and to their lives. The quality of entries in this category was outstanding and this has been a very difficult decision and split decision!
The winner was:
Freedom Deli Limited – Angela Murtagh - graduate from Law
Freedom Deli produces two ranges of gluten free, 100% natural ready meals specifically designed for people who suffer from allergies and coeliac disease. Within nine months of incorporation the company won a contract to supply major supermarket chain Waitrose and is also distributing to independent retailers throughout the Northwest. The company won the Northwest Fine Foods Awards 2011. The inspiration for Freedom Deli came from Angela cooking meals for her mother who was diagnosed with celiac disease and pancreatic cancer as there was nothing on the market which was convenient and healthy.
Highly commended: SDMV Limited / Slingshot – Mitch Vidler
SDMV Limited owns Slingshot, an online shopping tool which allows anyone to add products to their existing shopping baskets with online supermarkets like Tesco from the websites, Facebook pages and e-flyers of brands like Doritos. The company is working with some of the world’s largest brands and is preparing to roll out across Europe, the USA and Asia in 2012. The company was recently named one of the top 10 technology start-ups in Europe and received financial backing from PepsiCo.
Highly commended: Pinevio – Daumantas Dvilinskas and Mindaugas Krisciunas
Pinevio was co founded by two graduates from Lancaster University who cannot be with us today as they are in the process of relocating the company to San Francisco. Pinevio is a social media web filter which allows users to manage their various social media content to deliver it to them in a more manageable fashion. The company has recently received substantial business angel funding after presenting at the world’s largest technology conference, DEMO Fall 2011 in Santa Clara California.
Placement Student of the Year
This award has been sponsored by the Unite with Business project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund to place our students and graduates with paid work in local companies. The project develops the employability skills of our students whilst adding value to the local economy. For this award the students have been nominated by the companies that they have worked with.
The winner was:
Sharon Crane (Mechanical Engineering 2003) who supported Cumbria STEM Centre Ltd to develop an alternative energy activity for key stage school pupils in secondary schools throughout Cumbria.
Highly commended:
- Ms Rajni Parashar Vasa who worked with Global Media Connect Ltd
- Kate Brinkley who worked with Savvy Productions
- Sarah Braeunling who worked as a cultural consultant for Primera Ltd
- Elizabeth Chike who worked with Pendrill Photography
Competition winners for 2011
Coffeemat Challenge 2011
The Lancaster University Business Idea competition, run over 6 weeks in Michaelmas term each year.
http://lancs.coffeematchallenge.co.uk/
- Number of entries – 511 entries
- Number of site visits – 24,000 visits to the website
- Number of votes – over 41,000 votes on the website
Winners:
Heat 1 – prize Digital Camera
“A student focussed budget and health conscious recipe book that contains recipes with only 4 or 5 ingredients”
Chloe Hoctor -Sociology and Criminology, County College
Heat 2 – prize Amazon Kindle Wifi
“A Lancaster University swimwear calendar to be sold on and off campus”
Vaibhav Jariwala
Grand Final – prize Xbox360 Kinect
“Shop selling your old stuff and charging a 5% commission, you decide the minimum price. You don’t need eBay!”
Ha Anh Do – Accounting and Finance, 1st year student, Furness College.
Sim Venture Challenge 2011
The first annual SimVenture Challenge. Competing in pairs teams use the dynamic and multi-award winning business simulation software to run their own virtual business.
Winners – Prize £50 of Amazon vouchers each
Jaroslavs Conda and Shin Chi Fung.
Student App of the Year
Winner – prize of £100 of iTunes vouchers
Chirag Gude
School of Computing and Communications
News App+ – the app that keeps you updated 24×7!
A simple app to help reading news simple and fun, colour coding news articles to the relevance of the reader. The app takes news from other online sources and presents it in a simple cross platform compatible presentable format. Users select which news sources to subscribe to.
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