One Mall Step

Budding entrepreneurs are being offered the chance to try their hand at retailing in a new competition.

Make your Mark in The Mall will give contestants the chance to test their own business ideas and the overall winner will be offered an amazing retail start-up package.

The competition will be held in two parts, regional and national. To enter all you have to do is supply a simple business plan to impress a regional panel of judges. Finalists will each have two weeks free trading in one of 23 local shopping centres.

The national winner will be chosen from the most successful traders at each mall by a judging panel which includes the 2005 winner of The Apprentice, Tim Campbell. The prize is six months’ rent-free trading, support from The Mall, which operates shopping centres, a business mentor from the Royal Bank of Scotland and a place at the British Shops and Stores Association’s summer school at Keble College, Oxford.

Apply online at www.themall.co.uk or pick up a form at the Ask Me Point in your local mall. Closing date is January 27 so there’s not much time left.

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