Students returned home with a bronze medal after competing in the 24th Annual Manitoba International Marketing Competition at the Asper School of Business in Winnipeg. Business schools from around the globe competed and the winning team came from Mexico!

Finance and Entrepreneurship students won gold and bronze medals at the JDC West business competition held Jan. 20-23 in Vancouver, BC.

More than 400 of the top business students gathered from across Western Canada to compete in the first JDC (Jeux du Commerce) West. Finance team members Kyle Banbury, Trent Hope & Clayton Weir received Gold medals, and Entrepreneurship team members Nathan Dyck, Curtis Mann, & Angie Ritz received Bronze medals. The teams were lead by Coach & Faculty Advisor Ayten Archer, Team Captain - fourth year accounting student Marlaina Hauser and Kurt Loescher Finance faculty advisor.

Fourth year Commerce student Nathan Dyck - who competed in both events states, “The competitions we have entered and won have been the highlight of my university experience. Applying four years of superb business education to real-world applications and networking with young business students from around the globe has been an extraordinary experience. We fair very well with the rest of Canada and the world and bringing home two medals in different competitions speaks highly of our innovative, multi-disciplinary programs.”