RPM Helps the Big Deal

On Monday morning, the RPM boardroom was filled with enthusiastic students, all part of ‘The Big Deal’ project. The Big Deal is an enterprise competition for students from disadvantaged backgrounds identified as having high potential, and a number of RPM volunteers helped mentor them over ten weeks.

Teams of students compete against each other to develop business plans, which they then pitch at an exciting Dragons' Den event. The successful team wins a weekend business trip of a lifetime to New York.

Over the course of the day, Hugh took them through the fundamentals of marketing and the history of RPM, with follow-up talks from our Head of Creative, Neil Hooper, and guidance from our Digital and Planning departments.

We wish them the best of luck in their final presentation!