The project entitled "www4you," developed by Piotr Antoszek, student of the Agricultural University of Lublin, won the 8th edition of Wokulski Competition for the best business plan. The project provides for establishing a business which deals with Internet domains positioning and selling. On March 6, in the press center of the Polish Press Agency (PAP), Witold Zielinski, vice president of Citibank Handlowy, and Andrzej Wilk, chairman of the jury, handed over to the winner the main prize of 25 thousand zlotys. The awarded amount is earmarked for implementing the winning business plan. The competition is aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and is organized by The Citi Handlowy Leopold Kronenberg Foundation of Citibank Handlowy.
Due to the high standard of the participating projects, the jury also decided to award three distinctions:
First Distinction - Agnieszka Siek from the School of Banking and Management in Cracow for the idea of opening "Aswik" - a shop with willow products,
Second Distinction - Jedrzej Borowiak from the School of Logistics in Poznan for the "Investment Club" project - training courses and counseling services related to CE (Conformite Europeenne - the European Conformity) mark required by the EU from the Polish producers,
Third Distinction - Aneta Gryglewicz, Klaudia Magierowska and Dominika Melon from the Poznan University of Economics for the "Business for Sport, Sport for Business" project.
"Our Foundation's motto is: 'Inspire to Action.' Through the Wokulski Competition we would like to popularize the active attitude towards entrepreneurship and economic initiatives among young people. I wish the prizewinner every success in implementing his business plan and I do hope that his success will encourage participants of the future editions of this competition," said Slawomir S. Sikora, CEO of Citibank Handlowy.
Jędrzej Borowiak and Agnieszka Siek
The Wokulski Competition has been organized by The Citi Handlowy Leopold Kronenberg Foundation since 1998. It is targeted to students and graduates who have completed their studies less than a year earlier and are not older than 28 years. The participants have to develop a business plan for a start-up enterprise, which includes a detailed description of business activity, financing sources and risk factors. The projects were evaluated by a jury chaired by Andrzej Wilk, from the Polish Confederation of Private Employers.
So far, approximately 250 business ideas developed by students have been submitted to the Competition. Projects of businesses with very diversified activity profiles, starting from simple ones such as a bicycle messenger service company or multimedia presentations producer - to very complicated ones, such as a business trading in secondary raw materials of the fuel and energy industry. The prizewinner in the previous year's competition was Marta Witka, student of post-graduate accountancy studies at the Administration Faculty of the Maritime University, for her "Active City" climbing wall project.
