NZ’s Leading 10 Young Entrepreneurs

NZ’s Leading 10 Young Entrepreneurs To Be Announced After Trade Challenge Battle

Tomorrow morning, New Zealand’s top 10 young entrepreneurs will be announced at Massey University’s Auckland campus after 80 secondary school scholars competed for two days in two challenges – the regional heats for the FedEx International Trade Challenge, and the Global Enterprise Challenge.

From the moment the Prime Minister opened the event on Saturday evening, the ten teams of eight students have been working tirelessly to testing time constraints. The FedEx International Trade Challenge was to develop an innovative New Zealand product that will earn overseas funding and which takes into account current world trading conditions and challenges.

Judges from Massey University and FedEx Express will look for concise business plans and well-constructed presentations that demonstrate each team’s chosen product and international market entry strategy. The ten students announced tomorrow will have been selected by votes from the judges, Young Enterprise Trust, Massey University and from other students taking part in the challenge.

These 10 will go on to the FedEx Weekend Workshop in July to hone their international trade skills, after which, only six students can go on to represent New Zealand in the FedEx International Trade Challenge (ITC) in Singapore this August.

What: International Enterprise in Action Student Announcement

When: Tuesday June 23, from 9:30am – 10am

Where: Sir Neil Waters Building – Massey University Albany

(Gate 1, Albany Expressway, Albany)

Who: 80 year 13 students from 60 secondary schools nationwide

Tony Caughey, Chairman Young Enterprise Trust

Mathew Koshy, Country Manager FedEx NZ and Pacific Islands

Professor John Raine, Massey University

ENDS

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