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WORK ID: YFA 7669 (Master Record)
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| ENTERPRIZE 90: FINAL | 1990 | 1990-02-19 |
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Original Format: 1 inch Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 26 mins 47 secs Credits: Presenter Ruth Pitt Designer Robert Scott Graphics David Hartley ENG Editor Fiona Bowey Research Annie Goodyear Director Peter Jones Editor David Lowen Executive Producer Graham Ironside Genre: TV Magazine Subject: Entertainment/Leisure Industry Women Working Life |
| Summary The final in this the tenth series of the Yorkshire Television programme that is searching for the most enterprising businessperson in the region under the age of 25. Four contestants, winners from the previous four heats now compete against each other to decide who will become the winner of Enterprize 90 and a 1st price of £5000. |
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Description
The final in this the tenth series of the Yorkshire Television programme that is searching for the most enterprising businessperson in the region under the age of 25. Four contestants, winners from the previous four heats now compete against each other to decide who will become the winner of Enterprize 90 and a 1st price of £5000.
A quick-fire introduction to each of the four contestants in this final.
Title: Enterprize 90
Coming out onto the stage presenter Ruth Pitt welcomes both the...
The final in this the tenth series of the Yorkshire Television programme that is searching for the most enterprising businessperson in the region under the age of 25. Four contestants, winners from the previous four heats now compete against each other to decide who will become the winner of Enterprize 90 and a 1st price of £5000.
A quick-fire introduction to each of the four contestants in this final.
Title: Enterprize 90
Coming out onto the stage presenter Ruth Pitt welcomes both the audience and viewers to the final in this competition programme which is looking to find the region’s most enterprising young businessperson. She provides details on the qualities the judging panel have been looking for in these contestants all aged under 25 such as business skill, courage, initiative and hard work and that the eventual winner will be walking away not only with the Enterprize 90 trophy as well as a total prize fund of £9000.
Ruth moves on to introduce previous winners of the Enterprize trophy all of whom are sitting in the audience whose entrepreneurial spirit, she explains, typified the spirt of the 80s. Beginning with Derek Arnold the winner of Enterprize 82 he is followed by Ian Clancy, John Hutchings, John Docherty, Christine Tilley, Neil Oddy and Mark Dransfield all of whom stand to the applause of the audience. Finally, standing last is Enterprise 89 winner Julie Pownall now Chambers.
Ruth proceeds to introduce the judging panel beginning with its chair Commercial Manager with Lloyds Bank Michael Walker followed by Paul Gilmartin Managing Director of Yorkshire Venture Capital and John Jackson head of the Leeds based clothing company Centaur Clothes.
The first contestant in final is 25-year-old Julie Anderson a Theatrical Costumier from Leeds. As she works with her three members of staff working on and sorting through various stage costumes Julie talks about how her company was started, her role within the business and to whom she supplies costumes including local repository companies as well as regional and national opera companies. A shop run by Julie in the city centre with her inside during a fitting for a period bridal ware which she explains is a secondary business to the theatrical work she does. Returning to the studio she takes questions from the judging panel.
The second contestant is 24-year-old builder Peter Sowerby of Peter Sowerby Homes from Lincoln. At his Badgers Oak development in the village of Bassingham in Lincolnshire he speaks with some of the 40 sub-contractors on site who are building the two- and five-bedroom homes he has designed. He talks in voiceover about his business and how he got started. In his office his wife answers the telephone while he works at a drawing table in another office. As he walks around the site speaking with other contractors, he talks about his expansion plans for the site and a desire to build a complete village in the future. Back in the studio he takes questions from the judging panel.
The third contestant is 24-year-old David Sutcliffe who is a Modelmaker from Retford in Nottinghamshire. In his small workshop an example of one of his architectural and topographical models. As he sits at a drawing table working on another model the talks about producing these scale models for architects and why they need are needed. Nearby his employee Alec working on another model with David taking about the challenges in making these detailed models. An exhibition model which David uses to showcase his business to new architectural clients and a flick book of models with David talking about wishing to employ and train another modelmaker and expand his workshop space. Back in the studio he takes questions with regards his company by the judging panel.
The final contestant in this final is 25-year-old Stuart Reddich from Chesterfield. In the village of New Whittington in Derbyshire Stuart walks the short distance between the two news agency shops he owns. As he speaks with a member of staff and as shoppers come and go from his businesses Stuart talks about why he purchased both shops and what makes each shop different. As a woman buys her groceries from one shop an assistance stocks shelfs. As Stuart unpacks the evening newspapers, he talks about what he sells and the number staff he employs. A nearby former Co-operative store now owned by Stuart changes to a building site for two units Stuart is having built one of which will be a local pharmacy. As he speaks with the builders on site he talks about the benefits and challenges of having all his businesses in one small village. Back in the studio he takes questions with regards his business from the judging panel.
As the judges consider the winner of Enterprize 90, Ruth introduces fashion designer and retailer George Davies who will present the winner with the trophy. The two of them chat about his work running the high street fashion chain Next and about his current project creating his own branded clothing line ‘George’ for the Asda supermarket chain. Retuning to Michael Walker who after giving a summing up of each contestant names Peter Sowerby as the runner-up winning £2000. He then names Julie Anderson as the winner of Enterprize 90 and she is presented with the trophy by George Davies. The programme and series come \to an end with the other contestants coming to stand beside Julie.
Credit: Enterprize 90 was presented by Ruth Pitt
Title: With Judges Michael Walker, Paul Gilmartin, John Jackson
Trophy presented by George Davies
Credit: Designer Robert Scott
Graphics David Hartley
ENG Editor Fiona Bowey
Research Annie Goodyear
Director Peter Jones
Editor David Lowen
Executive Producer Graham Ironside
Title: © Yorkshire Television Ltd 1990
End title: Yorkshire Television Production
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