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Coastal Coasters

Vancouver

The Coasters for a Cause

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Executive summary

Why coastal coasters? What do we do to reduce waste?

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Mission Statement

To make make everyday life more eco-friendly

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Tagline and logo

‘’Coasters for a cause’’

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Product

Our handcrafted wooden coasters

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Production Process

-get materials (wood and art supplies)

-contact wood company

-handcut the coasters

-sand and decorate coasters

-package coasters with twine

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What worked? What didn't?

What Worked What Didn’t

  • Production Process - Mass Selling
  • Decorating - Coaster Size
  • Advertising

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Company Goals

  • Our company’s goals are to reuse and recycle old tree products, and then redesign and sell them.
  • Raise money to donate to

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The 4 P’s

Place- Sold at Handsworth Secondary School

Price- 1 coaster for $2 or 3 coasters for $3

Promotion- Advertising throughout the school

(posters, announcements and word of mouth)

Product- Wooden handcrafted coasters

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Advertisements

We used our school announcements, posters and word of mouth as our advertisements

Coasters for a cause

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Target market

Our target market was specifically teenagers and younger children as they were the age groups mainly shopping at the fare we were selling the coasters at.

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Competitive Analysis

Our competition were the other companies at our school selling body scrub, slime and reusable cup holders.

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SWOT Analysis

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

-

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

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Financials

Sales Revenue

$97.00

We made $97.00 from selling

Cost of Goods Sold

$100.00

We spent the full $100.00 micro loan

Gross Profit

-$3.00

We made a negative profit

Selling, Marketing, Other expenses

$0.00

We did not make a profit or use any of our other money on marketing or expenses

Operating Profit

-$3.00

We had to repay our cost of products

Microloan Repayment

$97.00

We did not break even so we could only reapy our product costs

Net Profit

-$3.00

We did not make any profit (negative profit)

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Metrics

Number of people empowered (students and Project Representatives)

17

Number of youth directly impacted (anyone who purchased or contributed to their product via time or monetary means)

35

Number of youth indirectly impacted (how many people saw you at school? On social media?)

300

Number of youth pursuing post-secondary education (estimate)

11

Number of youth exposed to entrepreneurship as a viable career path (estimate)

7

Number of hours donated (inside and outside of class)

25

Waste brought out of landfills (lbs)

0

Amount donated to charity and which charity was donated to

No profit

Beginning and final stock price

5$ for 3

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Conclusion

As a company we are proud of the product we have made and are happy to say that our coasters and environmentally friendly and handcrafted.