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From baby carry slings and bottle-warmers to tulips and chrysanthemums, the Young Apprentices’ task this week takes them into the corporate realm of flower selling. A domain they may again be too young to have any real life experience in as shown by Harry H as he sweetly divulged that he has only given flowers to his mum. However, the teams had to learn fast as Sir Alan lined up three corporate clients to put them through their paces. For the first time the groups are mixed up and Sir Alan chooses Hannah as one team leader and Lizzie as the other.
In the first pitch, a client event held in a hotel, Harry H and James are forced to make up prices on the spot due to the remainder of the team's slow calculating. On the other team, as well as Lewis' bizarre determination to pitch again despite his desperate pitching skills last week, Zara completely ignores the project manager's calculations and pushes up the price, apparently unaware of the concept that the two teams are competing for the deal. Unsurprisingly, Harry H and James win the deal but later pitches fare more kindly towards Zara as, even though Lewis commits pitching suicide when his phone goes off twice, she wins both deals for a West end musical and a stylish hairdressers (as James' concept of 'rainforest chic' doesn't gel well with the contemporary minimal style the exclusive salon were aiming for). In fact, Lewis seems only useful at providing comic relief with his priceless imitations of Harry, who is quickly becoming the pantomime villain of the series.
While Hannah's team fulfil the client's brief, Lizzie's team fails to impress their clients with their strategy of picking the cheapest flowers and assembling them into a bouquet reminiscent of one a child would give to their mum after a trip to the park. Therefore payment is deducted by the clients for their frankly puny offering. With the rest of the stock, the teams set about selling from their stalls with Hannah's inexpensive pricing structure of £3, £5 and £10 for a small, medium and large bouquet immediately ringing alarm bells. However, Gbemi and Harry M set about selling to local businesses relatively successfully with Harry M securing a particularly good last minute sale of £150 for the evil looking 'ugly plant' which wouldn't look out of place in Sauron's back garden. Lizzie's teams follow the expert's opinion of charging triple the price of production to their benefit. Therefore whilst they lost two of the pitches, they rake in the money from stalls sales.
In the boardroom, Hayley's projection to triple the production price wins Lizzie's team the task albeit by a measly £12 margin. Lewis refreshingly admits he is partly responsible for the loss of the task but has a lucky escape when Hannah brings Harry M and Zara back into the boardroom. Annoyingly, as per normal, Harry M makes sense in his criticism of the pricing structure and Hannah's reason for bringing him back into the boardroom seems entirely personal. Zara on the other hand committed a fatal error in not listening to the project manager but it was Hannah's poor pricing structure that really lost the task for them and she is sent home. Therefore Hannah becomes another example of 'nice guys always finish last' as Ben did last week and proves that in the cut-throat business world admitting your faults will end in your demise; shifting blame and bulls**tting is still the order of the day.
Young Apprentice continues Monday at 9pm on BBC1
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