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A BRUTAL LESSON IN BUSINESS PLANNING
IT was Week Eleven in the current series of the UK TV series The Apprentice — known as interview week. The five girls left in the process to win a £250,000 investment from entrepreneur Lord Alan Sugar, had to put their plans to the test.
Wearing their colourful business suits, and killer heels, the girls handed over their plans — and we, for the first time — got a sense of their ‘big’ ideas:
- Marnie, no business experience — wants to open a gym focussed around boxing as that’s her passion. She is an experienced boxer.
- Victoria — has run a business for a short-time selling pick and mix sweets online after leaving a job as an air steward.
- Dani — wants to expand on her single salon business and branch out into buying up hair extensions in bulk and selling them to other salons.
- Megan — wants to expand her cake/cafe/cocktail bar brand and open more bars.
- Rochelle — has a successful salon in Milton Keynes and wants to grow her brand into a chain, the next one in London’s Belgravia.
With four business gurus scrutinising their business plans, regular viewers know this is going to be a bumpy ride. This time Baroness Brady joined the judges and she was taking no prisoners. Not even allowing the sem-finalists to call her Karren — that was…