Footwear Academy, a shoes training firm, has won the maiden version of the Proudly Made in Aba Hackathon challenge, designed to proffer solution to challenges presently confronted via Aba marketers, particularly within the completed leather, garment and steel fabricating clusters. The occasion, organised by TBWAConcept, a marketing communications company and subsidized by Ford foundation, is in continuation of the “Proudly Made-in Aba campaign.” The Academy gained the challenge with a strategy to upgrade the talents of Aba shoemakers to enable them improve the exceptional of their products, using contemporary equipment and technology.
Co-founder, The footwear Academy, Bentley Chukwuemeka, stated that their plan was to introduce Aba shoemakers to fashionable technology, to enable them accelerate manufacturing, adding that the footwear Academy also intends to lessen the apprentice duration from 5 years to six months. for their attempt, which was taken into consideration to be the first-rate the by panel of judges made up of seasoned marketers and specialists, footwear Academy won a sum of $50,000. Clintonel technology came second with monetary prize of $30,000 with a solution to digitalise and automate the metallic fabrication procedure in Aba, thru computer Aided design, CAD and computer Aided manufacturing, CAM. The technology, according to Tochukwu Chukwueke, co-founder, Clintonel technology, might help shoe manufacturers and metal fabricators in Aba reduce manufacturing value, boom production pace, multiply production volume, enhance completing and generate extra sales. The third prize of $20,000 went to Ogwugo technologies, an online advertising and marketing platform, designed to handle exchange activities between shoppers and sellers in vast classes. They adopt shipping of ingredients, fuel, retail of clothes and footwear, bulk orders for goods among others.
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