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Empire fail to move rocking horses at the Earl’s Court Baby Show

The Apprentices pick 2 items and sell their socks off in Manchester and Liverpool, or do they?

have you ever wondered what traits you need to be an Apprentice candidate? Wonder no more, check these out…

Yes, those canny Apprentices completely fail to get the point of the task. Which is to value the 10 items and then sell them at better than the value where possible.

Apprentice candidate Ben gets in a lather about why he shouldn’t be in the boardroom.

The Apprentices create te Bingo Buster and The Bum Ball – with names like that who will order them?

To many The Apprentice is looked upon purely as a form of entertainment for all us unwashed masses. In fact on the BBC Apprentice forums someone has (with a little tongue in cheek) suggested that The Apprentice is unfair and good bosses would train their apprentices before testing them in the way Sir Alan does. [...]

The Apprentices hold a city high flyer evening event and manage to ruffle feathers and of course one gets fired. This explains who and why…

Car wash TV arrives in The Apprentice 2009. Two teams Ignite and Empire fight to clean the most profitably

The Apprentice 2009. What happened, who got fired, why they were fired and whether it was fair from a business viewpoint.

When the boys lost it was immediately apparent to me that the glum-looking Gerald Ratner should carry the can and get fired.  After all he’d not factored in the massive cost of tooling up to capture a limited market with the swap belt and its tiny characters. As one commentator pointed out the figures were [...]

I think you can truly say that Jonathan Ross really took The Apprentice format by the scruff of the neck and gave it a really hard shake for Comic Relief. When he’s interviewed Sir Alan on the Jonathan Ross show he’s always been interested in the ins and outs of what goes on. He made [...]

The Apprentice with Sir Alan Sugar leaps into Comic relief with a bevy of stars to amuse one and all. So we have Jack Dee, Gerald Ratner, Patsy Palmer, Carol Vorderman, Michelle Mone, Ruby wax, Fiona Phillips, Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Gok Wan. Obviously, given the involvement with Comic Relief the teams have comics [...]

Unusually Sir Alan only fired one candidate after the interviews with his gang of 4 (augmented by Karen Brady). That leaves 4 Apprentice candidates to fight to the death in the final.

Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentices try to sell experiences in some of the world’s most coveted supercars. Do they succeed? And more to the point who went home after the task?

The Apprentices create an advertising campaign for tissues with interesting results. The net result is a surprising firing.

Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentices are let loose at the NEC Wedding Expo to sell wedding dresses. Someone got fired. Was the firing fair? It’s easy to decide with the benefit of hindsight – that doesn’t mean it’s less fun though!

Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentice Candidates demonstrate how not to negotiate in Marrakesh. Was the firing fair? It’s easy to decide with the benefit of hindsight – that doesn’t mean it’s less fun though!

Margaret and Nick gave the following card sales figures:   Renaissance Sales Alpha Sales Card Buyers     Tesco 6,000 1,500 Clinton’s 0 1,500 Celebrations 0 19,500 Obviously Renaissance, Kevin’s team, with the ridiculous Environmental Day lost. The more I see of Kevin the more I wonder how he expects to be the best businessman [...]

In my previous post on the Greeting Card task I described how Kevin (I Eat Italian I Do) Shaw and his team created the disaster that was the environmental warning card theme. Let’s move onto the slightly less silly card theme – Singledom, or Singles Day. Raef Wants To Celebrate Singledom Michael Sophocles had his [...]