Congratulations to Bournemouth University's (BU) CIM The Pitch finalists, team B2Sea members; (pictured left to right) Ettie Greenwood Josh Rhodes and Siobhan Glover who were named as Runners-up at CIM’s Marketing Excellence Awards (MEA) on 27 April.  

The Pitch is a nationwide marketing competition for students, designed to recognise and reward the marketing talent of the future. In teams of two or three, they had to tackle a marketing challenge set by student travel company - StudentUniverse, then Pitch it to real industry leaders.

The BU team is the first team from the South West to get through to the finals of this annual competition. The students are all on Graduate Gateway degree programmes; Ettie and Josh are on BA (Hons) Marketing Communications and Siobhan on BSc (Hons) Marketing, and are all studying Level 4 CIM certificate.

Graham Goode explained they have all been on additional CIM courses since they arrived at BU, successfully completing the Foundation Certificate last year and they have just submitted the Integrated Communications unit on the Certificate Level 4. They are tutored by Melanie Gray, Shenel McLawrence and Graham Goode. 

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