The YEP Program Continues With New Online Sessions In 2021

The YEP (Young Executive Professionals) Exchange Program will continue in 2021 with new sessions. These are scheduled to take place in Italy, France, UK, Spain, when possible, but anyhow online by streaming. YEP’s main goal it to exchange know-how and practical experience amongst young promising entrepreneurs aiming to develop new business cases in one of the defined new market areas. The draft program of the coming YEP sessions will be sent at the beginning of 2021.

The first 2 YEP sessions took place in The Netherlands and Italy just the pandemic

First YEP Awards

In 2020, after the first sessions, the first YEP Awards were presented during The Global Best Practices Awards (Nov 4-5 last). The YEP trophies were granted to Blanc (UK) and WAUWcloset (The Netherlands).

Blanc was awarded for setting up a great omnichannel approach, that has resulted in impressive growth cleaning over 1 million pieces over the last years.  Also the product portfolio has been developed into a total solution for hygienic and cleaning solutions which is highly necessary in these difficult times. The founder, Mr. Ludovic Blanc presented his pitch during the YEP Awards segment of GBPAP2020

WAUWcloset was awarded for being an impressive business that develops a new value or finds a new customer group but this startup is pioneering to do both. The same time WAUWcloset offers a fashion rental concept for ‘power-women’ in a most creative way. The application was very detailed, containing clear details about the business model. Lastly, the start-up has shown strong stakeholder management, setting up impressive strategic partnerships. The owner, Mrs. Hanh Vlooswijk-Lu presented her pitch during the YEP Awards segment of GBPAP2020