This weeks task was to choose 2 items from a collection of items designed in Britain and then sell them in the French capital.
Set in the beautiful and artistic French city, Paris it seemed that a few of this weeks candidates were less than clued up on what makes Paris, Paris. Once again Susan did not fail to amuse us, this week while examining the items her deciding questions were ‘do the French like their kids?’, ‘do the French drive?’, ‘are they eco-friendly?’. Absolutley classic questions from Susan and Karen’s face was a picture, I seriously don’t know how she and Nick keep straight faces. However we may laugh at Susan but this week her team, team Venture did actually win the task hands down and set a new record for the board room by achieving unit sales of over £200,000 from one pitch. Helen pitched their child seat rucksack to La Redoute and achieved unit sales of £214,000, think its safe to say that if she wasn’t already on Sir Alan’s radar for 8 wins in a row, she certainly is now after that pitch!
Ventures child seat rucksack Venture's Universal grip
How did Logics revenue compare to Ventures revenue? … pretty miserably to say the least. They had a revenue of only £11,705 from their teapot lamp and cress postcard and failed to secure any sales from the appointment set up by Sir Alan at La Redoute. Tom clearly had not researched of heard of La Redoute as he tried to offer them a sale of 10 units ... think they had something a little bigger in mind considering that they are one of the biggest companies.
Logic's Cress postcard
Logic's Teapot 
I actually thought that Sir Alan would make all 4 Logic team members return to the board room however it was Leon, Tom and Melody that faced the chop. Due to her tiger like fighting spirit Melody managed to save herself and eventually Leon was axed due to his lack of contribution on this task. Leon's reasoning for not assisting much with the challenge was, 'I couldn’t help or do anything as I couldn’t speak French', in actual fact Melody only asked one question in French which was - 'do you speak English' of which nearly all her contacts did and she continued the conversation in English. How could he not read one sentence in French in beyond me?!
Au Revoir Leon!!
I am guessing that Natasha or Tom will be axed next week after Sir Alan pointing out she was lucky to be saved by Tom.
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