[Executive Summary][Descripton of Business][Personal Details][Items for Sale][Prices] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Business focus is traditionally crafted Arts & Crafts made by local traditional crafts using natural abilities to recreate items of value using naturally available resources such as bush ropes, grass, tree barks, special trees to create rare creative and invaluable marketable items. The company will trade under the name “PNG Traditional Arts & Crafts Buyers and Exporters Pty Ltd”. Its specializations are in traditional arts and crafts mainly from the two Sepik Provinces. Its intentions are to encourage and promote God given creative skills from traditional artist and promote its unique last remaining traditional cultural practices to the world who have lost such skills. Seeing a high demand for these primitive arts, the owner has invested K5, 000.00 of his personal savings into this venture. This plan details its business plan and outlines its major expenditures and revenue. The proposed plan specifies its operational plans, strategies and identified priorities to help it achieve its long term goals. This business venture specializes in rare and unique traditional arts creatively weaved, carved and thatched by past Papua New Guineans and passed down over many generations. The business is a sole proprietor operated by all family members from the start to save costs. Neither loan nor additional cost will be sought and or invested into the initial starting amount. Its intentions are to target tourists and overseas interests using available electronic mass media (internet) to market, expose and promote Papua New Guinea art to the world. Although it took some difficulties in starting this business because of lack of expertise in this area and a lot of risks are involve, seeing the demand has driven the owners to take some risks because all businesses involves risks taking. A lot of potential for future expansion is obvious depending on demand. Using the analysis of the market survey it is generally of high demand and as demand increases, there will be increase time and effort to purchase items in all 21 provinces to meet increasing demands. The marketing plan also outlines expansion plans and given a detail plan of how we see this business will expand in the future. <Back to Top> DESCRIPTION
OF BUSINESS These items will be photographed using digital cameras and download into the computer to be advertised in the internet using popular sites like; E-Bay, Yahoo, and other frequently surfed sites. The focus group to be prompted will be mainly its traditional and naturally gifted arts who have the ability no produce and market many of their products domestically and also abroad. Secondly business intentions are to target tourisms and overseas interests using mas media (internet) to expose and encourage interests from those that are not really sure of what are being at the village level. Thirdly through such buying and selling of our products, traditional skills and values will be enhanced and encouraged and promote interests from younger generations so that these god given skills and natural abilities maintained and are not really forgotten. Although arts and Crafts have been exi quantity sting in PNG, I am not really sure of such business activities currently existing in the country if there are any. However, from my own experience, I have not heard of anyone operating such business.<Back to Top> PERSONAL
DETAILS OF PEOPLE PROPOSING BUSINESS PLAN Some degree of specialization is possessed by my business parts. For example my wife is an expert in purchasing quality string bags. She is very selective and critical identifying quality bilums form amongst Sepik and Highland’s types. She can also negotiate and purchase items at reasonable prices. Her expertise also extends to traditional Sepik bilums making out from special tree fibers which are of high demand in PNG. My elder daughter on the other hand is a graduate of Business School from the University of PNG. She possesses so specialization in computing. She also has the abilities to negotiate and plan business activities. Such skills are a asset to this business. With such expertise and experience, the owners are able to buy and export high quality products. With collective skills the business owners are able to identify quality marketable items to purchase and export them based on demand. The basic items of trade will include; carvings, bilums (traditional as well as those made from wool), singsing and decorational items such as; head masks, dogteeth, pigs tusks, roped shells, penis gorge, cassowary feathers, birds feathers etc) musical instruments (kundu, conshells, bamboo flutes, shells and instruments made from tree seeds) made from locally and naturally grown vegetations. Its aim is to buy and export these unique traditional arts and craft overseas.<Back to Top> <Back to Top> |