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SFYU business students capture top awards
Movers and Shakers column by Julie MacLellan
SFU students are making waves in the business world.
Business teams from Simon Fraser University took all three prizes at the second annual management of technology case competition sponsored by the Chief Information Officers' Association of B.C. and SAP Canada.
Eight teams competed from MBA programs at SFU, UBC and Royal Roads University.
The case competition is designed to create an awareness of current business issues facing managers who are trying to implement and use information technology.
The first-prize winner of $5,000 was the SFU specialist MBA team, including Masud Chand, Avin Wadhwani, Majid Ghorbani and Vishal Raniga.
The SFU executive MBA team took the $3,000 second prize, with team members Edwin Fok, Gary Rae, Russ Cork and Sean Kelly.
The university's management of technology MBA team rounded out the top three, with team members Shan Satoglu, Abel Rauch, Jose Luck and Nelson Chan taking the $2,000 prize.
Kudos to all.
Sales pitch
When it comes to selling, BCIT marketing students are top of the class.
Marketing students from the school of business at the British Columbia Institute of Technology won top honours in a sales competition held by the American Marketing Association's annual collegiate conference in New Orleans.
BCIT students swept the top four spots in the sales competition, with Ryan P. Malcolm - president of the BCIT Marketing Association - capturing first, Jonathan Pickersgill second, Richelle Gonzales third and Larissa Beardmore fourth.
The competition saw 50 marketing students from across North America challenged with the task of selling a prospect before a panel of judges.
"You have to sell yourself and draw on relationship-building, personality and the skills learned at BCIT. You have to know your product and speak confidently and honestly," Malcolm explained in a press release.
The student team also won second place in the exhibit competition and was voted the outstanding regional chapter for the western region.
Joining Malcolm, Pickersgill, Gonzales and Beardmore were Chad Bomford, Ron Enriquez, Laura Thiessen and James Laker.
Students survive
It's been a long road, but they made it.
Twenty-three Burnaby chartered accountant students have qualified for their CA designation, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of B.C. announced recently.
The successful students are Omar Alwarid, Martin Bajic, Nahla Charaf, Arthur Chin, Richard Chong, Salina Chu, Andrea Ciolfitto, Wendy (Wei) Ding, Thomas Earle, Karamjeet Heer, Anil Jamani, Sebastian Jung, Amy C.M. Kong, Kristy Kwan, Shaun Ouellette, Martin Poller, Jennifer Sam, Harkanwal Sandhu, Ada Saw, Miki Welch, Corinna Wong, Mark Ye and Andy Yu.
The new CAs were welcomed into membership of the institute at a convocation ceremony held in Vancouver.
"These students have demonstrated the required competency in business and accounting to earn the CA designation," said Richard Rees, CEO of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia.
"They should be proud of themselves."
To qualify as a CA, a person must have a university degree or equivalent and 30 months of practical work experience in a chartered accountancy firm, as well as completing courses in the CA School of Business - all before passing a rigorous national final exam.
Congratulations to all.
Record growth
It's been another year of record growth for Fibre-Crown Manufacturing.
The Burnaby company saw sales of $934,190 in 2003, a 67 per cent increase from the $559,096 reported in 2002, the company announced in a press release. That follows on the heels of 48 and 45 per cent increases in the previous years.
The company is expanding its market share through the Lower Mainland and B.C., and is also making headway into Washington state. It has also entered into a distribution agreement to market its products in China and other parts of Asia.
Fibre-Crown develops and manufactures architectural details, cladding and moulding using expanded polystyrene - known to most of us as styrofoam - reinforced with fibre mesh and coated with a cement mixture.
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