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Oh So Yum or Pyjamily? Which brand would get your investment?
And so we now know — we know who has won the latest series of the BBC tv series The Apprentice and we know which brand we’re going to be seeing across the UK over the coming months.
From 16 candidates across 12 episodes which I’ve watched faithfully each week since January, the winner was Harpreet Kaur and her vision of very tasty sweet desserts to be sold in stores and also online under her brand name Oh So Yum.
In second place, sadly for me, was Swindon’s own Kathryn Burn who is already selling her EveryDay Pyjamas online and wanted Lord Sugar’s investment to scale up under her new brand name Pyjamily — a name I really liked.
This was a very well behaved episode with fired candidates returning to help the two finalists so the tension of previous episodes all gone. On Harpreet’s team, the high-pitched Brittany helped created a ‘Disney’ like advertisement with a cheesy poem however it seemed to work.
Nick showed a very hidden talent as a tv extra eating cake and more cake and the logo Oh So Yum, did work overall. Harpreet understands the concept of having treats, gift vouchers and our UK love of sweet treats. There were a few things which bothered me though.
Lord Sugar has already invested in a similar business in the past — Ridiculously Rich by Alana. Although I’ve no idea if…