88 of New Zealand’s budding young entrepreneurs will converge In Auckland to compete in the FedEx Express/Junior Achievement International Trade Challenge (FedEx/JA ITC) on 16-18 June 2012. The students, aged between 16-19 years, will compete to win one of six places to represent New Zealand in the FedEx/JA ITC Asia-Pacific final regional final held in Singapore in August.
Sponsored by FedEx Express, the program is held in association with the Young Enterprise Trust and aims to foster business knowledge through practical teamwork exercises, allowing students to gain first-hand experience in world trade, enhance their knowledge of product distribution, promotion and sales and develop traits in competition, teamwork, risk-taking and self-confidence.
This is the fourth consecutive year, FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, will help educate and inspire New Zealand’s outstanding high school students in this year’s FedEx Express /Junior Achievement International Trade Challenge (FedEx/JA ITC).
