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The Apprentice UK Season 20 Episode 5
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00:0012 weeks will be the toughest of your life Lord sugar is on the hunt for the next big thing
00:06this
00:07is an opportunity of a lifetime battling for his backing some of Britain's brightest prospects come
00:15on boys get up your life depends on it and then hit him it's a deal worth fighting for I
00:22can sense
00:22a bit of friction actually done was that on you no 20 candidates never been kicked in the
00:29balls by a goat to be honest with you oh 12 tough tasks this is a complete and utter joke
00:37just jump
00:38straight in one life-changing opportunity you're fired you're fired you completely messed it up
00:45you're fired previously on The Apprentice I want you to create a campaign for a new bottled
00:59water action I want some movement look tough and rough Karishma's campaign factor punch I really
01:06like that was electric the logo is north h2o while Connor's team struggled to stay afloat what are
01:14you doing now well it's just rather drinking the water again but we've already got that and in the
01:19boardroom the logo looks like a road sign on the m6 Roxanne you have a lot to answer to was
01:26filtered
01:26out you're fired I think everybody is on thin ice there's no room for hiding 9 a.m
01:54good morning could you ask the candidates to meet me out there in the garden yeah yes okay
02:07Jugga's dancing
02:08go
02:09Jugga dancing
02:10stop it
02:13why would you do that for me
02:15I've not even got my nice pajamas on
02:19Do you need a brush I.T?
02:21No
02:21No sign mate
02:22No
02:23No sign mate
02:33good morning i guess you're surprised to see me but in the world of business you have to be ready
02:39at a moment's notice now your next task sounds simple i want you to make a bunch of money
02:45out of flowers now the uk spends over two billion pounds a year on flowers so this is a market
02:53in
02:53full bloom as it were you're going to create bouquets to sell to the public and i've arranged
03:00for each team to meet a corporate client who are looking to place a bespoke order the team that
03:07makes the most profit will win and on the losing team at least one of you will be fired now
03:13i'm
03:14going to mix up the teams a bit karishma lawrence and priesh swap with rajan levi and rothner
03:29so everything clear good well i'll see you in the boardroom in a couple of days time
03:38teams have two days to turn petals into profit okay welcome to the team rothner rajan and nevi
03:45thank you glad to be here nice first job is anyone interested in putting themselves forward
03:52as pm choose a chief florist well i just did it and i need i need a minute to get
03:58gather myself
03:59i know my hand is blooming in the sky like a flower and i see no one else's hand i
04:04mean i was you put
04:05you i didn't mind doing it but if you're up for it i'm up for it only because i haven't
04:09had a chance
04:09i like flowers i like good things but i also want to just be do something i haven't done before
04:13so this is an amazing challenge um i want to push myself completely in a new place and thrive there
04:19so i'm my pm that's my pm
04:25i'm excited to be the project manager for this task this is not my roommate i've never done flowers
04:30before but i want to show lord sugar that i can absolutely excel at anything i put my head to
04:34what is your what is your strategy that's my only question let's let's let's let's get there in a
04:38second let me move all right we're kids across the hall i've arranged flowers before so i'd feel
04:46pretty confident needing this team already running the rest does anybody have a preference on what
04:52flowers we want to do rothner from my experience if we do go for country garden that is usually a
05:00lot
05:00cheaper to buy than higher end things like roses i think the garden ones personally i wouldn't ever
05:04purchase because i just think i could grow them in my own garden in my personal opinion i feel like
05:09they look a bit like an old style i totally get it but the good thing i would say about
05:12country garden
05:13is i know that in the flower market it's a bit cheaper to buy not to sound cheap but it's
05:17a profit
05:18task right so at the end of the day that's my priority but i just need you all to believe
05:21in it
05:22okay yeah amazing okay brilliant rothner was really keen on the country garden theme but if you
05:29don't arrange them right they can look like a bunch of weeds picked up from the garden if they look
05:35cheap they sell cheap and this is a profit task do you know what type of colors country garden is
05:40pastoral colors like lilacs baby pink create like a relaxed vibe we're bringing the outdoors inside yeah
05:46i was leaning towards tropical flowers i like the vibrancy of it debating a direction for their bouquet
05:55we are talking bold bright just like all of us vanessa's team i do love the tropical idea however
06:02i feel like in the market it may be a little bit isolating whereas a classic flower you can really
06:07sell that to anyone being like you want to give a gift or you want to show your loved when
06:10you love
06:10them it appeals to everyone for a reason also if they're being imported the cost price might be a
06:15little bit higher i 100 get you i still am leaning towards the tropical flowers i think we can kind
06:21of
06:21evoke the feeling of if you don't get to travel this year you can travel with your flowers it's time
06:25to like get the vibrancy out and i probably will go for tropical flowers that gave everyone yeah we
06:30have to be very cautious because bald can be brilliant but bald can be extremely risky
06:39next so if we could now decide on a team split choose who will focus on flowers i'll be on
06:45the bouquet
06:46team with andrea harry and megan and who will woo the client and then the corporate team can i get
06:53somebody that's happy to be a sub-team leader on that side i don't mind putting myself up for sub
06:57team looking at the previous market task yeah thoroughly enjoyed it and we i've done a very
07:02good job there so we are sub-team leader two tasks ago for the corporate i'm happy to do it
07:06again
07:07didn't you get a really good negotiation on the one i did yes yes i think that you absolutely smashed
07:13that
07:13yeah yeah so i think it's best for roger to be some team leader i'm more than happy brilliant
07:20she's definitely made a mistake there i think i'm one of the strongest sellers in the group however
07:24i think me and raj will leave this one and get the deal done obviously pricing is really important i
07:30obviously want to make sure that you negotiate a really good price okay try and go as high as you
07:34can happy perfect good corporate side i'm going to put lawrence jan and priesh arranging her bunch
07:44with lawrence as the sub team lead project manager vanessa i put a lot of trust into you you're going
07:51to please the corporate client and make sure you understand everything they want just understand
07:55their vibe we're going to go in there we're going to listen about the business we're going to establish
07:58what they want we're going to discuss the types of flowers that we could add into that installation
08:01we're then going to see how we can match the two together once we've listened to them
08:05we're then going to decide in a price we're going to push for as much as we can without over
08:09promising
08:09yeah and then we're going to get a clear idea of exactly what they're expecting also please please
08:15please do not go there and oversell overdo over promise exactly one thing i just don't like yes
08:21what we're not going to do at any point is offer perfection because if there is one leaf out of
08:26place and we've offered perfection yeah someone's going home 11am teams divide
08:41well i mean being sub team leader this this week i mean i'll hopefully i can bring some fresh ideas
08:46we hope so too mate well what i do know is i've got the right suit for the job hey
08:51i love it central
08:55london hi hi nice to meet you nice to meet you at a floral studio so i hold my foliage
09:03so i go filler
09:05flower flower okay yeah after a crash course in bouquet building as you can see you've got none of your
09:14same flowers touching each other that's amazing yeah looking for ways to keep down costs obviously
09:20we're going for pastels as we can see certain flowers are a little bit more but filler flowers
09:25luckily aren't too expensive project manager rothner guys do you like this it's hydrations
09:35that is very nice we'd have to see how much they are though hydrangea that's one pound 75
09:41so that would be our most expensive yeah item there but then it's both it'll bulk it out yeah
09:45okay and then i would like to add a bit of foliage just to bulk it up a bit with
09:50the leaves eucalyptus
09:51is 30 people 30 keepers to him i definitely want quite a lot of them adding extra foliage usually is
09:57cheaper and it's a profit task i ideally don't want each bouquet to be any more than about eight pounds
10:02i'm just slightly worried we have too many fillers and not enough like actual flower can we take maybe one
10:07them or one of them out and add another flower i actually agree with you but i just would rather
10:12have a bit more greenery i think at the moment we're being a bit too price focused as much as
10:18we
10:18want to use things that are a bit cheaper to make a profit we've also got to use things that
10:22are pretty
10:23and people going to want to buy i'm just a bit concerned at the moment it just looks a bit
10:27flat
10:27okay so what are we thinking it still looks quite thin on the ground i just think this looks really
10:33nice
10:36across town right guys what i want us to do is look for the the bright tropical colors just make
10:42it really fun selecting stems for their bold bouquets i was thinking even if we have one or two premium
10:49flowers team tropical this is a premium one to be fair but the color is gorgeous that is quite
10:57expensive anthurium is two pounds i'm happy with that chico leaves they give me tropical vibes okay
11:04cool we have the rub veronica's i've got one two three four veronica's i like the shape that's quite
11:09cute it looks very tropical but it's not full for me yeah there seems to be not enough big flowers
11:16can i get one more please i think this yellow is not yellow yeah if we say for example this
11:21yellow
11:21that is 175 a flower i think for 175 is quite expensive i like the color yeah can i get
11:27two
11:28more of them yellow ones cool yeah it was a little bit like bringing kids to the shop and just
11:34telling
11:34them to throw in whatever flowers they like i think our cost price is extremely high so i'm extremely
11:39worried about our margins girls look at this quickly do you see the vision can it work can we sell
11:44it as
11:45tropical yeah so that's roughly 16 pounds okay is this what you envisioned yeah
11:52west london i can smell your fragrance already it's beautiful oh good pitching flowers for an event
11:59hosted by fragrance brand connock this is our english countryside fragrance the main thing to understand
12:06about it is that it's elegant and says british luxury absolutely salesman rajan
12:12i think we've got a fantastic idea of how we can make this really special for you my vision for
12:17you
12:18if it's if it's capturing your guests on the way in then potentially an arch it's the wow shot as
12:24they're coming in with a lovely kind of like an archway it would be a fantastic kind of backdrop we
12:28could
12:28really capture the essence of your brand you know people can hold your fragrance under the arch the
12:34colors we can enswine with your you know your branding already i love that idea yeah now in terms of
12:40costs for the full arch it would be three thousand it's a little bit above our budget is there anything
12:46you can do what we could do we could have foliage around the bottom yeah and then the flowers coming
12:51over that could then bring the price down with that being said i think the best price i could really
12:56go to would be two thousand two hundred we still might need to come down a bit yeah just a
13:01little
13:01bit if we could shake on two thousand okay we could shake on two thousand okay yeah amazing i'm happy
13:08with
13:08how the meeting went you know kieran was a little bit disruptive felt like i had it under wraps um
13:14so
13:14yeah a little bit disappointed there but overall i think you know we secured a good price in terms of
13:20the price i think we've done pretty well i can not skimp on the really expensive flowers yeah it's not
13:25so
13:25important i mean they're an english countryside brand it's less rather than more yeah across town
13:32what we want to do is create a floral installation something high fashion opulent a show-stopping
13:39piece hoping to stage a sale with a west end show something that we were thinking about was a flower
13:46wall it could be like two double horns i would just bring it back to as long as it feels
13:50high fashion
13:51and glamorous pr man lawrence we know that what we're going to offer is is that glamour and that
13:58sort of high class element we were looking for this about three and a half thousand we've done this
14:04before and we would expect to pay about 750 pounds for a flower installation right i i don't think 750
14:11is
14:12kind of where we were looking at um i don't want to promise perfection if we want to stick with
14:17the
14:17premium flowers we are looking about the 2000 pound mark or we can slightly dampen down the quality of
14:22the flowers we can get that to about 1500 i don't think we can sacrifice on quality as long as
14:28it's
14:28quality as long as it's show-stopping final price would be 1500 brilliant thank you so much thank you so
14:34much the client was really clear with their brief they wanted something that was show-stopping glamorous
14:40and lawrence interestingly thought he'd go in and offer the client something that wasn't perfection
14:45that didn't really feel like a proper negotiation and almost risked them the deal i know we've
14:51obviously had to promise show-stopping i don't know about you fellas but i'm not a florist i'm not
14:55going to be delivering the best of the best 4 pm next for vanessa how many do you think we
15:02should be
15:02making tomorrow i want to go around the 40 to 50 decide how many poses to push to the public
15:11i would want to be a little bit more adventurous and like just be brave enough to go for 60
15:15maybe 10
15:16more selling for 50 pounds each that could be 500 pounds more there's a huge risk to get 10 more
15:20we
15:20don't know what the market's going to be like tomorrow there's a lot of what-ifs i would push for
15:2460
15:24i don't know if it's um i do agree you know it's a pm decision but if we've got more
15:30you sell more
15:31it's a risk though isn't it none of us are floral experts we don't know how long that's going to
15:35take it's a lot of waste if we get it wrong yeah um so i'm going to take a massive
15:40risk let's go for
15:4260 bouquets so i think the safest option we're not super experienced so i would say that we should aim
15:51to make 45. for rossner flower order firmed up hi roger how are you how's things a chance to check
15:59in
16:01we managed to secure a price of 2 000 pounds okay perfect that's great we've pitched to them
16:09a flower arch they want to go with like a lovely english garden meadow yep and like foliage and
16:16like wild kind of like cheap cheap cheap yeah cheap cheap cheap lots of greenery you said yeah yeah
16:22yeah lots of greenery and with like sprinkles of like flowers okay brilliant thank you very much bye
16:29i'm quite happy that they've decided on a lot of green foliage because i think we've yeah that's
16:34the cheapest i think i understand what they're going for they're basically what something like
16:38this on an arch yeah so we've ended up with a flower wall they were tough negotiators touching base
16:47with her team they started with 750 we've walked away with 1500 project manager vanessa
16:55what type of vibe are we looking at they wanted show-stopping opulent but something to do with
17:01the devil wears something to do with fashion so you know it has to look nice one thing to mention
17:06as
17:06well dan suggested like the devil horns and then you know people could take a picture in between it but
17:11we're happy to leave the sort of creative aspect to you okay cool i'll just be very clear again
17:16the most important thing is that it's that they wanted quality that's the clear brief we've got
17:22they don't want us skimping on anything okay awesome yeah i mean i'm a little bit nervous about
17:28that because i did say we should be definitely transparent and not over promised but show-stopping
17:34opulent they obviously have a very very they've got briefs that that needs to be hit basically
17:39i think because dan obviously spoke about the devil horns and it sounded like an idea that they
17:44were into it's a safe bet to go with that these two greenery we're going to need quite a bit
17:50of
17:50so so do you want to do that 100 of these 100 of these yeah i think so i just
17:54think we're going a bit
17:54too stingy on the flowers oh wait okay we have sold this for 2 000 pounds okay now let's just
17:58add
17:59the entire total up yeah the total is 219 pounds 70 pounds if you've sold a flower installation for
18:062 000 pounds the average florist will spend about 500 on the flowers well this team have only spent
18:13220 i'm worried they haven't ordered enough we've got so much for leo okay hopefully all look good
18:216 pm i think that they'll love that and it's a showstopper designs done i'm hoping that we can
18:28actually smash this out of the park so we're not hoping we are going to smash it let's go let's
18:33go
18:33everyone tomorrow pedal pedals to pull in a profit
18:436 a.m west london wow today teams must transform flowers right let's get some
18:51aprons on let's get to work yeah into bunches of cash my whole aim going into this was keep costs
18:57low
18:57filling in her followers project manager rosner i hope the flowers meet your expectations yeah
19:05we've got 45 bouquets to make costing wise per bouquet how much did you say andrew so the actual
19:09flowers was eight pound 95 per bouquet and then the arch was 219 pounds 70. that's really good so
19:17obviously we spent 219 pound on the art which is really cheap how many flowers did you order 410. okay
19:24a little bit concerned about the amount of flowers they actually ordered we negotiated a 2 000
19:30pound price for this archway the customers are expecting big things we'll have to just try and
19:34improvise as best as we can because it's mainly foliage i think try and get as much of the foliage
19:39done as possible because you're going for that whimsical enchanted kind of vibe downstairs so this
19:46was our final bouquet we ordered for 60 bouquets setting out her vision with this you need to move
19:52incredibly fast if we're trying to make what 60 of them vanessa however the priority is the corporate
19:59client for me personally because that is a guaranteed money right there so we have actually designed
20:03something for you guys this is what we have we decided to go with some horns which are made up
20:09of
20:11coronations and red roses um and then what we have in the sky we're going to hide the hindrangers
20:15um as clouds yeah the only thing to note on the corporate team is precision and density around
20:20the horns so they're clearly horns otherwise it'll just look like a mess my issue with the flower wall
20:26design is that the corporate client might find it a bit too gimmicky so they might think of it as
20:30a
20:30halloween element to it but that's the design that the team have come up with and that's what we have
20:35to go with so karishma dan and priyash are going to work on the flower wall and florence will be
20:40moving
20:40over to bouquets i will be floating in between both so i'm picking up anything that's like
20:44doesn't look right but let's get going
20:50don't worry too much about the length but you want it to be a decent level so that they're sticking
20:53out
20:54okay 9am each of them will look a bit different but as long as to your eye it looks yes
20:59okay
20:59while rothner's team race ahead so far we've got 12 bouquets done i just want to get as many done
21:05as
21:05possible ideally we want it to kind of end up looking like this focusing on finesse
21:11it's raised in lines for making it look messy yeah we just have to be very careful team tropical
21:18how about my first attempt yeah i'm gonna help you just rearrange it because if you look at the
21:24height okay when you're doing it it's also nice to kind of turn it around so you have an equal
21:28spread
21:28of flowers also just ask each other is that fine guys yeah i do think that one sticks out like
21:36a bit of a
21:36sort of farm how are you guys doing are you guys okay yeah we're just about made four yeah okay
21:41we
21:41need to speed things up guys we got to get going over half an hour into making the flowers the
21:48team
21:48have only managed to produce four cookies but they don't seem very panicked at all i wouldn't have been
21:53taking it easy i would be running 100 miles an hour the most important part as well is having that
21:58play
21:59around with it at the end yeah the finesse yeah i'm finding this quite therapeutic to be fair yeah
22:06short on flowers to fill their arch i've been at class so far it's good that the wall we put
22:12on the
22:12better it's gonna look the other team oh no that's snapped off keep breaking these and i'm putting them
22:21into at mass rape fiddly remember time is all the essence careful so we don't lose any flowers or
22:30whatnot yeah i'm just i've spilled some
22:47right done
22:50they only ordered just over 200 pounds worth of flowers for their whole arch and most of that is
22:55foliage so every stem counts they're all so heavy-handed though they're dropping them they're
23:01stepping on them they're breaking them i mean at this rate they're really not going to have enough
23:06to fill this arch it really needs packing out with flowers you know for two thousand pound it needs
23:12to be packed with the flower yeah you're starting the scenery first yeah so like around here and then
23:20in the gaps we're going to put the birds of paradise okay leading on her team's devilish design if you
23:26stand here yeah the tail needs to start about here karishma we've done enough blue at the top so
23:33now let's concentrate at the bottom to fill in the green i don't want them to be much green
23:37yeah it's quickly sorry krishma yeah if the blue was supposed to only go in the sky i think you
23:42have enough i'm just using this to cover the green i'm gonna come and support you i feel like i
23:46need
23:46to be here right now okay cool we need to focus the flowers a little bit more lower just and
23:51then
23:51spread it out sporadic so make sure the back the bottom is covered yeah guys make sure you're
23:56pushing them in there's two are falling out of my hands and be mindful something like the tail
24:01shouldn't be covered okay guys spread them out spread them out come on faster these all need all
24:06these flowers need to be on yeah don't cut them too short don't cut them too short yeah it's very
24:14stressful it is very stressful and i'm a bit more stressed because vanessa's so stressed her stress is
24:18rubbing off on me i think vanessa needs to calm down maybe she should be on the bouquet team and
24:22not
24:22on our team you know the too many cooks mess up the broth or whatever it is that's what's happening
24:27today i shouldn't be able to see the ends coming out of here it's not that's not good enough
24:35mid-morning we've hit the quantity and let's put it into buckets and let's go i love that let's do
24:40that
24:41we've got 24 here two people can be working the back to finish some more my main focus now is
24:46getting out
24:47because now we're just costing ourselves well we need to start moving stuff yeah let's get
24:50everything going while half of each team pack up their corporate orders oh be careful the castle
24:56be careful no wait it's bending it's bending man stop stop stop play down the rest head off to market
25:05so my strategy out there is to try and sell for as high as we possibly can
25:10you know i think we're bigger yeah go on they're 49.99 all right let's do 49.99 and i'm
25:15confident
25:16we're going to sell these battersea power station oh it's so busy base for both teams to flog their
25:25flowers megan do you want to get on the chalkboard yeah and write down the price put down 49.99
25:31for now
25:32giving their budget bouquets a premium price tag right in jameswood go get your flowers
25:39rothner's country garden crew hello can i introduce some fresh flowers these are hydrogens and so they're
25:47like pink gorgeous fresh flowers to treat yourself or your loved ones just a special deal for you
25:53really so beautiful what are you thinking 49.99 it's a little too high okay you could maybe like put
25:59a few in
26:00your hair can i interest you in fresh bouquet flowers it is a tough crowd howie hello i see smiles
26:09up there
26:10why don't you come over and treat yourself this is tough tough tough are we like scaring people away this
26:16yeah i'm quite concerned just because the momentum isn't there i didn't listen to kira when he mentioned
26:22the 49.99 i think now i'm going to be mindful of what he is saying and just kind of
26:26take back the
26:27rain a little bit and make sure that i stick to the pricing strategy that i feel is best
26:31yeah so i think 49.99 is just a little bit expensive so i think we should just go in
26:36and try
26:36and sell it for 40 pounds what do you think oh no change on the board 40 pounds it is
26:41okay
26:44across the shopping center we have tropical flowers here one day only
26:49make your day for the other team we're selling them today 49 pounds a bunch go on then i will
26:56be
26:56the first customer thank you so much business is blooming our hint of summer bouquet is centered
27:03around the anterium an italian bright red flower would you like to proceed yeah yeah brilliant now you
27:08sold it to us guys we've got tropical flowers this is our our stunning showstopper let's buy them for her
27:16let's make her happy look how happy she is already this is my favorite you're happy with this one yeah
27:20perfect give me one moment sir we have another sale you can imagine them just like this in your living
27:26room sitting room would you like to seal the deal yeah perfect could i ask and be super cheeky could
27:31i
27:31ask for a 50p tip just to make my day go on then brilliant thank you very much sir take
27:36care
27:38the team are performing their heart out you know everyone is giving their best i think connor and i
27:43naturally are more sort of salesy people but i can't fault the effort we've just got to shift as
27:48many as we can they are really lovely what type of flowers are they um so they are tropical okay
27:54exactly what it says on the tin west london oh be careful it was it once it once it put
28:01the knot on
28:01then it's holding held in place delivering on yesterday's promises to the fragrance brand hello hi guys
28:07lovely to see you amanda how are you hi rajan's corporate crew here is what we've created for
28:15you what do you think okay oh let's have a look the overall vibe you've nailed it it's nice that
28:21it
28:21feels natural but i was definitely expecting more flowers based on our conversation but we just thought
28:28you know what why not just put a little bit less flowers here and work up towards more the built
28:32-up
28:33flowers light in the middle so it's like the blooming i don't know two thousand pounds is pushing
28:37it i would be happier with a little bit less so i'm thinking what do you think amanda 1500 1500
28:45we didn't know if you wanted to um have some bouquets for your guests there's obviously eight people
28:50what about if we say 1800 including the bouquets i think and then i think we'll be very happy thank
28:58you
28:58very much thank you thank you so much thank you so much i'm feeling pretty chuffed with what we've
29:05achieved i mean we did give them the bouquets of flowers a goodwill gesture but in the grand scheme
29:10of things it's cost us 40 pounds cost price so i think we firefighted very well there at least we
29:15got
29:15a sale yeah let's go make that 200 pound back yeah that's what yeah let's go let's go across town
29:22it's stuck it's stuck it's stuck it's stuck it's not showcasing their vibrant vision give me a big one
29:30move the flowers that actually don't step on them please vanessa's team they look more like wings
29:39hi guys so we thought what can we do to really symbolize devil's product so we've gone with the
29:47horns for you to demonstrate yeah of course what is your first impression um okay um do we think
29:55there's reader's horns i think it definitely gives some symbolism of devil yeah i remember the tail
30:02coming out of the back so i did say inspiration from high fashion okay can you talk me through
30:08which elements you feel are high fashion here um with high fashion i definitely didn't get that passed
30:14on but i think with the of the bright colors you really can't walk past this and miss it for
30:18me
30:18this clashes it's just not this show and it's not this brief so we can't honor that original quote
30:24so um yeah if possible if you do like i know we said 1500 are we able to get to
30:29the 1200 mark
30:30look we'll recognize the labor and the time and can offer you a thousand pounds for it ultimately this
30:35isn't something that we're going to use i'm a little bit disappointed because i definitely mentioned
30:40to the boys do not over promise and understand exactly what they're looking for and that was
30:45completely ignored well unfortunately yeah that was they could have literally said do you know what
30:52we're not willing to pay for anything yeah i think to lose out of 500 is i have to be
30:57able to take it
31:00mid-afternoon all right team let's huddle are we saying it's best to just plug it all at 30 quid
31:06otherwise we're going to be left with a load of flowers still pruning back prices as long as we
31:12sell them for around 20 quid minimum we're making profit rothner's sales squad this is my special
31:19one i made myself look how beautiful they are it's the biggest one i could find that's stunning how much
31:26they're 30 pounds today yes we'll have amazing right okay so the price is 30 pounds for them please
31:33and that will be 30 pounds 30 pounds you're bad why don't you meet me and we're gonna do 27
31:39.50
31:39come on yeah 27.50 amazing the least i can do is 25 today okay okay perfect how about two
31:47for 20 each
31:48oh you drive a hard bargain all right fine down to 20 pounds yeah great yeah like that we've got
31:56a bunch of flowers for you for 20 pounds so yeah so two for 40 thanks so much
32:02it's going really good we're making quite a few sales now my only worry is are we going a bit
32:06too low
32:06sometimes but i think the most important thing is just trying to sell it because if we take a lot
32:10of stuff home then we're just not going to make any money at all and we're not going to get
32:13any profit
32:14the best that i can do today from 30 is 20.80 19 pounds i'm gonna shake on it okay
32:21okay perfect
32:25on the other team all right guys i think we're doing really well we're starting to really get these
32:31sales coming through rethinking roles we have six bouquets left do we think at least one of us should
32:37focus on bouquet creation now i do think that's a good idea lawrence i'm going to put you two guys
32:43on to making some bouquets okay so do you want the two girls to just stay there and just bang
32:48bang bang
32:48yeah we will focus on the sales if you guys can make them and really throw them together absolutely
32:53people are going to enjoy watching you make them i can see this in your living room in your kitchen
32:57area they're tropical it's a flash of summer can i run around if i make more no make more we
33:03don't have
33:03any stuff could i ask for a 50p tip for the smile thank you so much now so 25.85
33:09perfect
33:12and then the wonderful pasha is going to hand you a fresh bouquet thank you so much have a lovely
33:16rest your day thank you sorry i have this nice couple that have been waiting for some time give
33:20us a sec i think the excitement of the selling and the market has got to lawrence no one else
33:28is making
33:28bouquets apart from me and krishma the boys are sort of out there trying to sell which is fine but
33:33we're running out of bouquets we don't have any made and it doesn't look great could you as well just
33:38tidy i'm just a tiny bit just so it doesn't look quite so messy thank thank you hello ladies
33:475pm corporate orders fulfilled absolutely beautiful they are stunning yeah for both teams
33:54how about we do 50 pounds yeah yeah a chance to flog leftover flowers to trade we've been selling these
34:01at 40 pounds okay i'll take them all for 40 quid we'll shake on that fresh and freshly packed okay
34:10you'll never see again 20 minutes till sales must cease last bunch of flowers fresh out of stock
34:19right guys we are officially out over this side for rothner's team we've got a few leaves there if you
34:25want to bunch them together a plan to flog foliage sell them for whatever you can but make a little
34:31cute bunch please thank you amazing she clipped us put it in the shower the hot stain comes up
34:37they've sold out but there's still so many people here who want to buy flowers clearly they just didn't
34:44make enough they could have sold an awful lot more bouquets for a higher price what a missed opportunity
34:5010 minutes to go down to 21 pounds in total for both teams a final push i love when i'm
34:57on
34:57face for the flowers i want to try and get some sales out i understand that but we just need
35:02to make
35:02them up as quickly as possible so the sound of two pound 50 is that okay right we're charging you
35:07two
35:07pounds tonight can i get three cheers for our last customers of the day see you later thank you so
35:16much
35:20trading over we managed to sell absolutely everything out yeah so good work guys let's hope it was
35:27enough i'm a little bit apprehensive that we obviously dropped the price quite low that could
35:32come back and bite me but i still made a profit every single bouquet sold so i feel quite proud
35:37listen guys i know people are keen to try and sell more but actually you getting behind and actually
35:42doing it drew more sales in we have some expensive stock left over my only fear yeah
35:47my biggest concern was that we wouldn't be able to make 60 bouquets and sell 60 bouquets
35:51i'm feeling extremely apprehensive we have too much excess stock and i think it's going to really
35:55affect our bottom line oh there's so many beautiful flowers tonight profits processed
36:01tomorrow for one team the sweet smell of success
36:14krishma how you feeling this morning i feel like no one's immune from being thrown under the bus big
36:19time we needed more bouquets so like me and krishma were focusing a lot on making bouquets so yeah i'm
36:24a
36:24little bit worried i don't know but you lot but i'm feeling very confident my flowers are fire we were
36:31hearing that your flowers are pretty dull and boring look in the boardroom today it's all gonna be weeded
36:35out yeah going into the boardroom i'm actually pretty confident i really got a chance to show
36:47everybody that i'm a worthy enough candidate i did what i was asked to do by a pm of course
36:51i have
36:52doubts in my mind about decisions i've made but ultimately i'll stand by them i know i could have
36:57performed better but win or lose i'm not going anywhere you can go through to the boardroom now
37:18so let's see how you went in this um war of the roses we'll start with eclipse
37:28rossner you became the project manager of eclipse is that right yes so i actually really wanted um
37:35country garden just because it's a profit task and i knew that filler flowers of foliage would be my
37:41main focus for this task yeah this is a typical bouquet of yours yeah yes
37:47oh thank you yeah thank you so much so this no disrespect is the cheaper end of the market some
37:58of
37:58this stuff yeah yeah i knew that because of i've worked with eucalyptus before and i know that they're
38:03great filler flowers that make a bouquet look a lot bigger than they are and you could actually charge
38:07a lot more um for it rothner was really keen that it looked substantial it didn't cost very much yeah
38:15hmm okay and you don't think that's a little bit dull no it's like that keir starmer would buy his
38:21wife on her birthday a bit boring yeah boring yeah i think it looks a beautiful bouquet and i would
38:27buy it
38:28and have it in my home um so you spent 400 pounds i heard on this uh which came out
38:37that eight pound 88
38:38per bouquet right were you involved in making them up uh kieran i heard you're a bit uh uh unstable
38:46in flower arranging it yeah i spilt some flowers a few times spilt them you stepped on them you broke
38:54them you had the touch of an elephant and they were quite flimsy so they kept snapping but we got
38:59there
38:59in the end you had all the finesse of uh an airport baggage holder i was told yeah yeah megan
39:07what were
39:07you doing in this task um i was making the bouquets lord sugar right and um i understood that you
39:13had
39:13difficulty in pronouncing the names of some of the flowers yeah it wasn't my strongest area i must admit
39:20yeah yeah not hydrangeas hydrogens oh yeah she said that sorry about that thank god he wasn't
39:26selling fuchsias yeah yeah moving on the corporate team i led the sub team so we went to meet the
39:34client
39:34in the morning um this is the client that does the fragrances correct yeah chronic they were called
39:39right so you started negotiating with the client and i think you went in at something like three and
39:44half grand didn't you three three thousand three thousand yeah so i went into the pitch with that
39:50money forget a flower arch you need marble arch yeah i think the client saw that too yeah so i
39:56wanted
39:56to go in high um knowing that they would bring me down and i got them up to two thousand
40:00right we then
40:02presented the arch to the client they then proceeded on to say that you know they think that the two
40:07thousand pounds was a bit excessive on their end and then andrea came out with a great idea luckily we
40:12had some of the bouquets that the other team prepared for us we then shook on 1800 pounds
40:17including the bouquets i have to say i thought it looked good oh thank you right now what about the
40:22actual bouquets who was out selling them it was myself harry and megan yep and kieran i've got some
40:30figures here 49.99 yes so on the way there kieran was quite confident having looked at the bouquet
40:35he can push for 49.99 now for me did you ever sell one at that price no we didn't
40:39we then went to 40
40:40didn't sell one people were like avoiding us like the plague we were pretty worried at the beginning
40:45because we started so high and we were like we're not going to sell any of these but then we
40:49actually
40:49were selling them like hotcakes they were they were flying off the shelves all right okay let's move
40:54on to the other team uh alpha right now vanessa you put yourself forward as a project manager
41:03yeah yeah yeah um i wanted to try something new you wanted to prove yourself i guess so yeah i
41:08just
41:08quite i like trying new things you went for the tropical yeah thing yeah because i really wanted
41:13to push boundaries i don't think it's the stuff that you see every day okay and um this would be
41:19your
41:20bouquet yeah this is the typical like tropical yeah expensive yeah yeah so this is not a cheap bunch
41:29it's not they went for the stuff you find in the garden that you normally run your lawnmower over to
41:34get
41:34rid of um they're very bright very colorful but from what i can see you spent a hell of a
41:41lot of
41:42money on them how many are we going to make so initially i wanted to make 40 to 50 so
41:48i bought 45
41:48and the team convinced me that we should go for the 60 because they believe that they could sell but
41:53because we ended up only making four bouquets in an hour we had to end up making a majority of
41:59our bouquets
41:59at the stall itself which meant two man down for selling so how many did you make i believe there
42:06was 20 made by the end what were you doing growing them from seeds or what yeah it was quite
42:12painful
42:12to watch there wasn't that much organization was there but this was trying to go i really was trying
42:17but anyway your client that you were going to pitch to is the um theater right and currently running the
42:27the devil wears prada is that right yeah yeah so what did they want they kept using the word
42:32show-stopping and opulent and and high-end fashion i think is what they wanted yeah yeah but then they
42:39want something to do with the devil horns and things like that yeah and we we did put that in
42:43the final
42:43design we suggested that dan i believe or we will give them pretty much free reign to do what we
42:49like
42:49okay how much did you end up agreeing we started off at 3 000 they said 750. um it was
42:56i understood
42:57i was being lowballed but we doubled that 750 to 1500. right okay what did the client think when they
43:03saw the wall we put it up and the corporate client was not too pleased um so i mean i've
43:09got a picture of
43:10it i mean don't look great does it this wall it looks like elton john's qr code
43:17yeah um explain to me where the horns are it's the two red things at the top these two things
43:24here
43:25you're saying yeah really anyway what did they say financially because you'd agreed 1500 pounds so
43:33they were saying essentially that they can't use it um they're not happy with it but they're willing
43:38to offer us um essentially we got down to a thousand okay yeah i mean we still more than
43:45doubled our doubled our money on it yeah all right let's move on a little bit here now what about
43:51the
43:51main bulk of your uh bouquets then we sold out of the bouquets that we brought with us and then
43:57myself and karishma were pretty much making bouquets on the spot we had a severe amount of excess stock
44:04hmm right well the last thing we need to do is to read out the results so tim tell me
44:15what alpha
44:15spent yes the team spent a lot it came to a total of 1436 pounds and 25 pence right and
44:24what were
44:25the sales their total sales were two thousand pounds and 84 pence that gave them a total profit of
44:30five hundred and sixty four pounds and fifty nine pence profitable anyway so karen same question to
44:38you well uh eclipse spent a lot less uh six hundred and twenty pounds and fifty pence and they also
44:46sold
44:47a lot more uh two thousand seven hundred and ninety two fifty giving them a good profit of two thousand
44:55one
44:56hundred and seventy two pounds good so well done you won off you go thank you thank you well done
45:20guys
45:21um you lost i would take a leaf out of the gardener's book and would say it's time to remove
45:30the dead heads
45:32off you go thank you
45:43hey get in we nailed it honestly i am so so proud those numbers compared to the other team as
45:51well
45:52then it was so small i obviously think out all the tasks we've done and out of all the pms
45:56that was such a clear plan everything was perfect i think it was amazing big win big win you smashed
46:03that
46:10ultimately the failure of the task comes down to not knowing the full brief from the um corporate
46:14client because when they asked me about high fashion i didn't have a response for it
46:17i looked silly with all due respect when i open the call i think that information is being said
46:23i believe that as sub team leader lawrence needs to take some ownership because when it comes down to
46:28it we missed what the client wanted completely he was the leader of that group so something has to
46:32come from there even if we got the full 1500 pounds we'd have still lost and i think really the
46:38failure
46:38of this task is because the price of the flowers 16 pounds cost to make a bouquet of flowers if
46:43that's a
46:43lot of money i mean literally all the profit from this task has come from the corporate team
46:48so if i get sent home i can walk away with my head held high but i'd be pissed off
46:52i did want to keep the price low but every single time i kind of brought it up it was
46:56it looks cheap let's go for x y and z let's go for x y honestly i don't think the
46:59biggest fault was
47:00in the pricing strategy we came there with so much excess stock that was left over at the end
47:06vanessa was easily swayed by karishma who wanted to go with the 60 units and didn't listen to the
47:10practical advice and the worries that i had about excess stock i mean essentially we can go around
47:14around around this table so let's just go in there and all the best
47:27yes lord sugar can you send the candidates in please
47:40well if i was a condolence card i'd be telling you sorry for your terrible loss
47:48because it was a terrible loss you got whacked by 1600 pounds you spent 962
47:56pounds 50 on all the materials to make your bouquets your takings on the bouquets were 950
48:06pounds 84 so you made a loss of 11 pounds 66 just on the bouquets alone i think what we
48:15were doing is
48:15finding flowers originally that were aesthetic and nice yeah which is like what me and pasha were doing
48:20is trying to make a bouquet that was presentable they were panicking away
48:23they were little sugar it's like buying flowers at a garage on mother's day morning you know panicking
48:28it was quite clear they were just throwing flowers to make a bouquet look pretty they focus on pretty
48:34but didn't focus on profit that's a very good point yeah and even worse still out of the 962
48:42pounds that you spent at the end you threw some stock away didn't you a huge amount of stock so
48:48we had
48:48enough to make 60 we only made 43 bouquets which is my biggest concern here 272 pounds of excess stock
48:55laid over so i wanted to go for 60 because i thought we would have made more before we entered
49:01the market
49:02but because we were under so much pressure to make bouquets while we were there they missed half the
49:06clients that we could have got if me and pasha were also selling yeah but anyway moving on the corporate
49:12team you spent 473 pounds on that bloody stupid wall it was more like the hanging gardens of bethnal green
49:21just for your reference after you left they chucked it out that's how good it was yeah right so who
49:28was
49:28who who built the wall um dan priesh myself and krish dan and priesh yeah bill and ben the flowerpot
49:36men
49:38um they're not at one point any of them say this is not what the client's looking for we did
49:42at one point
49:43give the idea of the i think dan gave the ideas to the client with the two devil horns and
49:47the tail and they didn't
49:48say no to the idea you know that wall was a disaster um and the negotiation for it was ridiculous
49:56i and i understand lord sugar i mean we we doubled from where we were it's not perfect i will
50:02hold my hands up to that
50:03doubled but you didn't get it did you we when you finally turn up with that um thing they only
50:09give
50:10you a thousand quid don't they um so where do you think the failure of this task lays with them
50:15i think
50:15ultimately on the other side here partly because we we didn't make a profit on our on our particular
50:20product although it was bad we did make where do you think it lays connor i do you think it
50:24lies with
50:24us i do think i think it lies who out of you four then do you think i think ultimately
50:29vanessa you made
50:30the decision on the bouquet and then i do think karishma you ultimately influenced vanessa to go
50:34up higher i don't think 160 pounds on an extra 10 broke the camel's back i don't think that was
50:40i think it's okay to say krishma also did that but you guys still took very long to make it
50:46right well vanessa who are you bringing back into this boardroom i'd have to definitely bring somebody
50:52back from both sides and this side i'm gonna have to bring pasha back and i can give the reasons
50:56after
50:57i'm happy to do that and i think on this side um i'm gonna have to lawrence i think you
51:02being the
51:02sub leader could have definitely pushed it out a bit more right okay the rest of you go back to
51:10the
51:18house right um well i'm going to talk to tim who was with you all of the time baroness brady
51:26knows you uh and um at least one of you is going to be leaving the process today okay yeah
51:34thank you
51:44well what do you have to say tim you were with them i'm slightly confused with vanessa one why
51:49she's brought in pasha pasha did well throughout this task she was really enthusiastic and everything
51:55that was signed off with regards to the flowers was vanessa's fault they lost this by spending too
52:00much on flowers and not thinking about how they were going to make it back and what about our friend
52:04lawrence here the disappointing thing for me about lawrence is that he says look we made money
52:10but he actually left a lot of money on the table he disappointed the client
52:14and his flower wall ended up in the bin yeah okay
52:20yes could you send the three of them in please
52:33right well um vanessa um tell me why did you bring her back in here so the reason why i
52:39brought pasha
52:40back was because um she was key at instrument in me picking the flowers even once we picked me picking
52:46the
52:46flowers no sorry as in the team picking the flowers she was pushing for the more expensive ones when i
52:51picked the cheaper alternative she was saying no i completely disagree and i am shocked that i'm sat here
52:56honestly i think vanessa is just coming up with excuses honestly to back herself there was no strategy
53:02no decision at all lawrence in this particular task there was certain artistry about it
53:10that i don't think you took the ambience of the theater into account you sold something the client
53:18didn't want i mean lord sugar i still doubled our money i mean it's disappointing who should be fired
53:24then um i think ultimately it is vanessa i think what a lot of thing is obviously i put myself
53:29in this
53:29position to lead this thing with when i have no experience on it no price no costing strategy let me
53:36just
53:36finish what i'm saying i put myself in a position to be the pm of this task i couldn't easily
53:39do this
53:40thing where a lot of people are doing waiting for the perfect task i wanted to challenge myself as
53:43something i've never done well i do tell people don't get involved in running something which
53:48you've got no experience honestly if i didn't put my hand up nobody would have put their hand up
53:53it's easy for a lot of people to hide behind the person who puts themselves to be fired then
53:56in all honesty i think we're halfway through the process passion has not put herself forward for
54:00anything but she jumps on the back of a lot of things if it sounds good she's happy to go
54:04with it
54:04and if it doesn't work out i've pulled my weight in every single task i've been a backbone of pretty
54:09much every task i've done what i've been told to do to the best of my ability we can all
54:14say what
54:14we've done from task one to now each and every single task i've also put myself out there i never
54:20ever stay silent i'm not a background person i'm not a background person either who do you think should
54:24be fired i think vanessa should be fired honestly in the market i was making bouquets i took that
54:29initiative because we didn't have enough bouquets i told you to do the bouquets yeah but from the
54:35minute i was doing bouquets and selling as well the issue is that flowers you guys didn't make enough
54:40you weren't helping us in the morning making them i helped you do a few and i went over to
54:44the other
54:44side because i had to be in between both there was a great just one thing i want to add
54:48i i did work
54:49across both teams as well and on both days i had a clear strategy neither of the days did the
54:54strategy
54:55fall apart i do have to say like i have learned my lessons from this but right listen i think
55:00i've
55:00heard enough i'm going to conclude here um pasha i um don't quite understand vanessa's uh choosing
55:10you to come back here yeah but um your team was responsible for making the bouquets and buying the
55:19flowers and it's quite clear that far too much was spent there there was no cost strategy yeah i don't
55:25want to hear any more from anybody sorry lawrence you completely and utterly lost the plot you didn't
55:33realize this was a very artistic type of thing that these people wanted and you made them a very ugly
55:41wall
55:44Vanessa i don't think you led this team very well at all uh in fact i think far too much
55:51money was
55:52spent on flowers and also the manufacturing of the bouquets was a joke complete and utter joke
56:01and and on that basis vanessa you're fired thank you very much good luck good luck
56:19laurence you'll stay in this process pasha you'll stay in the process also thank you simply because i i
56:28can't see what you did wrong in this task me neither it doesn't mean that i haven't got my eyes
56:34on you
56:34okay go back to the house thank you lord sure that bang is ready to
56:41it was the right decision there's only one decision we could make
56:47i took a big risk and put myself for something i've never done before and i'm not regretful about that
56:52i think i'm an amazing person and i think i'll definitely go for our life
56:56i think vanessa's coming back i've got a feeling what was she like in the ballroom she held herself
57:01very well she was composed but she didn't take account of it she didn't take accountability
57:05laurence and pasha shocked that they were brought back yeah i was quite surprised with who vanessa
57:10picked but i have no idea who's coming back or which way this will go well i don't want to
57:13see any more
57:14flowers ever again
57:20who else is coming is it just you
57:28you look like you've been through it mate what happened it was pretty brutal to be honest with
57:34you i mean i do feel like i've used the life up there like i didn't get any grilling in
57:40there he
57:40literally was saying to vanessa i don't understand why pasha is sat here if anyone is in that position
57:46as project manager if you're bringing back the wrong people lord sugar's gonna see right through you
57:51he knows like he knows everything now 14 candidates remain the search for lord sugar's next business partner continues
58:05next time i'm sending you to el guana in egypt
58:11let's go
58:12thrills
58:15actually cooked grills they've sent back all the potatoes oh my god and in the boardroom one of the
58:22worst performances in the history of this process a one-way ticket you are fired
58:29well we've sent flowers of commiserations over to bbc2
58:32angela talks to vanessa join them for unfinished business
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