In TY, we all have make a business. i, along with my friends, Órla, Ciara, Taylor and Leah came up with the idea of baking boxes. Our boxes include all the dry ingredients to make either brownies or cookies and all you have to do is add an egg and butter! We decided to name our business, Batter & Crumbs- (Brownies and cookies ;) ). We then had to figure out what jobs each of us had to do in the company e.g manager, market researcher, financial manager etc. After getting our jobs, we had to work out how we were going to produce our products ,where we were going to buy the ingredients, how we were going to present the product. etc etc. We found boxes that were perfect to keep our ingredients in and the supplier was also from Limerick ! They also gave us a great deal! We had to price each of the ingredients from Tesco, Lidl, Aldi and supervalu. We had to then calculate the price for one box and then set our price and ensuring we would make a profit. We also set a target to sell before Christmas, which we reached. We got 194 orders before Christmas which we got a surprise from, they were a great hit ! We had to make an Instagram account as well where we kept our followers up to date on what was happening! We also sold one of our boxes to a government minister, he reviewed the on his Instagram account too which was great !
We were very lucky to be chosen as one of 3 companies from our school to compete in the Limerick finals. We had to make a business report and a 5 minute video telling the judges about our company. We finished both and are now waiting on results that will be announced on the 16th of March. We are also very fortunate that we are still selling our boxes in 5 local shops, Coughlans shop Castlemahon, O' Sullivan's forecourt Feohanagh, Dolans shop Ballyagran, Moloneys shop Broadford and Roots community shop and cafe Kilmeedy. We have also made a website too!
Here the link to our website- https://sites.google.com/d/1pM07GIA-EgmKzPDbeiQENvuZkPgfyCjA/p/1cGqxrToDdEZtJvuW3pu4CgUmx3GUK7zB/edit
Here is our report and video too!
Here we are at school selling our baking boxes during school. We were very fortunate to have gotten so many sales since November!