Spiral, a team from Junior College won the HSBC Young Enterprise Company of the Year 2008 award.

The winning team, which received the trophy from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Louis Galea, will represent Malta at the European Company of the Year contest to be held in Stockholm between July 23-27.

Waterwise from St Aloysius College were first runners up and second runners up were Switch from De La Salle College.

The other competing teams were Maniark - Junior College, 9 to the 0 - Junior College , Centiva - St Martin's College, React - St Aloysius College, PRO - De La Salle College and Emulsify - Verdala International.

Led by Karl Gouder as chief executive officer, Young Enterprise Malta aims to introduce and develop entrepreneurial education programmes in as many schools and organisations as possible. Through team building and a personal experience of how business works, the organisation strives to build confidence and competence in future business leaders by developing suitable character traits. Young Enterprise offers youngsters a great learning experience, which will serve them well for many years to come.

The chairman of Young Enterprise Malta, Josef Camilleri awarded the John Harper Award, given each year for excellence and outstanding performance, to Chris Cutugno and Bjorn Azzopardi from Think Design Ltd in the first category and to Jon Vella from Sound Systems Ltd in the second category.

Mr Cutugno and Mr Azzopardi are former Young Enterprise Malta participants who went on to put entrepreneurship in practice by successfully setting up their own IT company.

Sound engineer Mr Vella has supported Young Enterprise Malta all along its 20 years.

Awards were also presented for different categories of skills in running a Young Enterprise company: Best Business Plan - Switch; Most Responsible Business - Waterwise; Best Product / Service - Spiral; Best use of Innovative Product - Spiral; Best Implementation of Quality System - PRO; Best Implementation of Marketing and Sales Strategy - PRO; Best Use of Technology - Spiral and Best Presented Financial Statements, Accounting System and Profitability - Maniark.

Alan Richards, chief executive officer of HSBC, main sponsor of Young Enterprise for the last nine years, highlighted the values of integrity, entrepreneurship and personality when embarking on new business ventures.

More information on Young Enterprise Malta is available by calling 2124 4991 or by sending an e-mail to kgouder@youngenterprise.org.mt.

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