Jane King, a teacher and head of Business, Economics and Enterprise in a private school in the UK organized a project at RSF Dhaka Project School on 28 March 2012. 35 students of Grade 7 & 9 took part forming 5 different groups. They were trained to open a company, make a healthy food product with the local ingredients, fix a selling price, where to sell, how to promote the product. Such projects were recently held in Zambia, Ghana, India and Jordan.
The 4 P’s of marketing Product, Price, Promotion & Place ensures the selling. The 5 companies were 1) Good Food, 2) Seven Stars S P, 3) Shat Tara, 4) Sunrise Ltd & 5) Seven Star Kings.
Seven Star Kings became the champion. Sunrise Ltd Runner up. Seven Star Kings product was Wood Apple Juice. It will be available in Pet bottle at only 12 Taka. The production cost shall be 9 Taka. The company will make 2 types of Wood Apple Juice, Sugar free for diabetes and sugar coated for general people.
Certificates on different category were also given to the teams. All the participants got an Enterprise Certificate singed by Jane King.