[Shaun]

Prospect - £10,485
Pioneer - £8,622

Prospect:
- After two losses in a row, but a strong early form, I was keen to see you four get back into your stride, and you did. Your catalogue idea was fairly niche and a very big risk compared to the bits-and-bobs idea put forward by Pioneer. I was a little underwhelmed with how few items you selected, if I'm honest, but you presented them nicely. I went into the sales half of this task a little worried for you guys because there wasn't as much effort put into the design and marketing side of things as the other team.

However, come sales, you completely owned it. You all pulled your own weights and - although I detected a hint of defeat about Munchkins - were upbeat and very friendly and swift to deal with customers.

Pioneer:
You kind-of lucked out in the past two tasks thanks to some stellar efforts by individuals, and this task I think sort-of saw that unravel. I think the 'Christmas catalogue' idea, although nicely designed, was a little safe and a bit too kitsch, like one of those awful Park things that come through the letterbox with pages on chocolate willies and so on.

However, I think your idea to integrate Brotherhood/Zeta hoodies, and other items personally attached to certain elements of TiBB, was inspired. This was somewhat dampened, however, when you forgot to include some of these in the full thread, and it wasn't until late afternoon that this was rectified. I was also left a little confused when I made my purchase today, as I wasn't presented with a total bill or any real help.

Vanessa, I think you bossed this task. I almost felt sorry for you because you spent a lot of it doing all of the work, and although I've been sceptical about your abilities in previous ones, I think you've been slightly let down by your team today.

Overall:
I believe that, since Prospect dealt with customers more adeptly and paid a greater deal of attention to the budgeting side of the task, they were more successful with their sales and this was reflected in the overall outcome. Pioneer, although initially promising with some great ideas, struggled to get rolling and I blame this in part to the team effort. For this task, I have to go with Prospect as the winners.