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SPARC Entrepreneur Challenge Announces Winners on Friday, March 4th |
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Winners have been announced SPARC Entrepreneur Challenge. Top prize was awarded to Collingwood's Technicraft Product Designs (pictured above) on Raglan Street for the creation of a product called "Shutgun" that shuts off active fire sprinkler heads to minimize damage. Second prize was awarded to Old School Brewery (pictured above), a company that brews organic beer at a nearby Blue Mountains historic schoolhouse. The Old School Brewery second place winners had a great time and posted comments on their web site following the event. "Last night was a blast. The Sparc Entrepreneur challenge was good times from start to finish and the Old School Brewery ended up taking second place and the people’s choice award. What does that equal? About $11,122! Hell. Yes. As promised the free beer was flowing late into the night at the school house. We’re getting fermenters! Thanks to all that came out and all that voted in our favour, and thanks to the Small Enterprise Business Centre for hosting a great night." Third prize was awarded to a company called Dock On A Rock recognizing its entry of a system of environmentally friendly, adjustable brackets, designed to mount a dock or deck structure to any solid sloping rock surface. Designed to sit above the waters' edge, these brackets allow you to simply use standard deck building methods and materials to give you access to and from an unusable shoreline. The awards ceremony was held at the Georgian Manor Resort in Collingwood on Friday, March 4th. More than $50,000.00 in prize money was up for grabs in the competition, including a $40,000.00 first prize. |
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| Andrew Angus of Switch marketing presented the first place prize |
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SPARC Entrepreneur Challenge is a unique opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs to showcase their new business ideas. Entrepreneurs will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges who are successful local business owners, and compete for cash and prizes in an open and friendly competitive environment. Prizes awarded will assist the winners with starting their new business initiatives. The event is a celebration of local entrepreneurship and an opportunity to encourage business development in the area. The competition will be similar in format to CBC’s Dragons’ Den© and will be open to all new and existing business based out of one of the following four regions:
This will be a ticketed event with proceeds from the ticket sales going toward local youth entrepreneurship programs, such as the Secondary School Business Plan Competition. The Small Business Enterprise Centre is a premier resource centre helping local enterprising people start and grow their businesses, and meet their entrepreneurial aspirations. Small businesses and entrepreneurs play a major role in the region’s economic development in terms of jobs, investment, trade, innovation and prosperity. The Small Business Enterprise Centre wants to celebrate local entrepreneurship by hosting SPARC Entrepreneur Challenge. |
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