Emmanuel Enemokwu, a third-year Accounting and Management student at Kent Business School has been shortlisted for Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year at the Kent Student Awards.<\/p>\n
The Kent Student Award for Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year recognises an individual or team who has demonstrated innovation, impact, skills, dedication and commitment as a result of running a business while studying at the University. The judges are less interested in profit and loss and more interested in what a student has taken from the experience (tackling of issues, challenges and opportunities).<\/p>\n
Emmanuel, a\u00a0BSc Accounting and Management<\/a> at KBS, is the founder of Jehu-cal<\/a><\/u><\/strong> a street fashion brand which has already turned over more than \u00a310,000 in trade.<\/p>\n Emmanuel reached the final staged of the Business Start-Up Journey 2017 and is now on a self-employed placement running his business for a year. Emmanuel said: \u201cThe best thing has been putting everything that I\u2019ve learned from Year 9 until my second year of uni into real life. I\u2019ve been able to think about what I learned in different seminars \u2013 and then implement it.”<\/p>\n \u201cI have started to use 50% recycled raw materials in my tracksuit bottoms \u2013 that came from a CSR module. I considered the issues and thought \u2018what could Jehu-cal do\u2019 and decided that using the recycled raw materials was important \u2013 I\u2019m planning to increase that amount as well\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the biggest challenges is staying motivated. I had taken a break from my company, I hadn\u2019t put out any collections and needed to get my brand back on track. When sales went down, so did my motivation. I didn\u2019t know what to do. But doing an internship at Dune London as part of the placement was the thing that changed everything\u201d.<\/p>\n Emmanuel\u2019s aim is to scale up his business whilst completing his exams. The course usually allows a student to do a year in industry, but Emmanuel opted to complete a self employed placement year.<\/p>\n The judges had the very difficult task of narrowing down over 250 excellent nominations to the following shortlist. The winning students will be announced at the gala dinner on Friday 1 June.\u00a0<\/strong>The winner in each category will receive their very own brick in the University’s ‘Footsteps Path<\/a>‘, a certificate and their achievement will be recognised on their Higher Education Achievement Report when they graduate.<\/p>\n To find out more about the Self Employed Placement programme and the criteria for joining either email ASPIRE@kent.ac.uk or Kimberley Munden K.E.S.Munden@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"