Hello Everyone!

Since our last post in week 6, we’ve grown a lot as a team. Now in week 13, we’ve learnt more about each other, more about business and more about Ekri. We as Ekri are excited for a new semester in the school year and look forward to new advancements such as the Cross Iron tradeshow.

Here are some facts about our company:

The key to the Ekri Notebook’s appeal, however, is that the cover— indeed, all elements of the notebook, including the papers and bindings — can be customized. Regardless of how you use the Ekri notebook, you really can’t beat the customizable nature of these notebooks. Why not try something new in 2016 and give our notebooks a try?  It has been a great help in keeping us a bit more organized so maybe it can do the same for you.

“I want to spill ink onto pages that will break your heart, then mop up the careless mess into words that might fix you.”

When we write, we do so for a myriad of reasons that can shift depending on our mood, our environment, events that have happened, or even our time in life. Sometimes, it is just a bone deep desire that we can neither quantify nor explain. Sometimes we write for a broad spectrum of needs, and sometime for only one. We will leave you with a question. Why do you write?

Thank you for staying in tune with us
Until next time,

- Ekri

Website: http://ekrijuniora.wix.com/home 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ekribooks/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ekri_ja/

Our team at Churchill's Winter Wonderweek sale

Welcome to Ekri :)

Welcome to Ekri ☺ 

Through 6 short and exciting weeks of Junior Achievement, the Thursday Deloitte team was able to accomplish quite a lot of important tasks. This week, we finalized our product idea, created our company name, mission statement and created roles in each department.

Our President and VP executives were chosen 2 weeks ago in which we collectively decided upon 6 core leaders who would best represent the different departments. Kudos to the many candidates who tried out for these positions.

Choosing our company product was a difficult task. Our team had many different innovative ideas such as Mason jar lanterns, customizable notebooks, and bracelets. There were four distinctive groups and each group promoted their idea through a small presentation. This went on for many weeks until we decided upon Mason jar lanterns and customizable notebooks and majority voted for the notebook idea. The customizable notebooks were narrowed down to being composed of 3 types of pages (lined, blank, graph) with a refillable function. There are still many issues deciding upon the costs of the product, what the product will look like, but these issues are close to being solved.

For the company name, creative individuals brought up interesting ideas that would best suit our product and we collectively came up with a list of company names. We all decided on Ekri which means, "to write" in Haitian Creole. We chose Ekri because notebooks are fundamentally used "to write". Through this message, we targeted educational charities such as the Free the Children movement. 

Our whole team is getting to know more about each other every week, and learning more and more about entrepreneurship. We're experiencing more and we're motivated to do the best we can!

Thank you for staying in tune with us
Until next time,

- Ekri 

Ekri executive team