TECHNOLOGY won through when budding tycoons did battle in a Young Enterprise competition on Saturday.

Nine companies from schools in Redditch and Bromsgrove offered goods and services at a trade fair in the Kingfisher Centre.

Overall winner was FTL, from Woodrush High School, Hollywood, which used hi-tech equipment to create customised logos and ring tones for mobile phones.

Company members Neil Caldicott, Robert Bowers, Adam Green, Tom Docker and Stuart Brownlie picked up the Redditch Advertiser trophy and the £50 first prize.

Runner-up was BTB, from Alcester Grammar School, which won £20 with its handicraft products.

A new prize of £30 for the most eye-catching trade stand went to Creative Images, of St Augustine's High School, which designed personalised letterheads and stationery.

The other companies taking part were Pigs Might Fly (Alcester Grammar), Blinc (North Bromsgrove), Simply The Best (Bromsgrove School), Novus Captus and VIVA (Waseley Hills) and the aptly named BYE - Bridley Young Enterprise - from Bridley Moor High, which is to close under the Redditch Review.

The stands were judged by Redditch MP Jacqui Smith, Kingfisher Centre director Brian Walker and Redditch Advertiser editor Paul Walker.

The presentation evening is on May 1, at Bordesley Hall and is by invitation only.