Campus Enterprises: A Multifaceted Approach to Student Services

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Campus Enterprises is Duke University’s largest, most successful and widely known student-owned and operated business. Originally named Devil’s Delivery Service, Campus Enterprises was founded in 1994 by two Duke Students, Robert Benson and Scott Castle, making it the oldest student run business at Duke.

Although Campus Enterprises was first conceived as a food delivery service for Duke’s student community, the company made a critical transition in the Fall of 2010. Due to the rapid rate of its revenue growth, the company underwent a major corporate restructuring to fully accommodate its future potential. It was then that Devil’s Delivery Service, a Sub-Chapter S Corporation, officially evolved into Campus Enterprises, a Limited Liability Company. Since this transition period, the company has expanded to also provide laundry, screen-printing, marketing, catering, technology, cleaning, note-taking and online ordering services. Some of Campus Enterprises’ most notable business partners are Laundrymen, a laundry and dry cleaning delivery service, Radoozle, an online dining delivery service on food points, and BluePrint, a custom apparel screen-printing service. Newer ventures include BlueNotes, a class note-taking and distributing service, and Maid My Day, a professional cleaning service.

Currently, Campus Enterprises is comprised of 42 shareholders whose responsibility it is to generate about $500,000 of revenue this year for various business partners are restaurant clients. Each shareholder makes an initial one-time investment of $9,000 to buy into the company. The shareholder money is then used to provide the Campus Enterprises services. Once current shareholders graduate, they sell their share back to new members for the same price at which they bought it. This system functions as an insurance arrangement for members’ original share investments.

Campus Enterprises’ current Spring 2014 Officers are as follows: the company’s Chief Executive Officer is Griffin Cooper (Jr), Mia Hopper (Jr) is serving as Chief Financial Officer, and the two Chief Operating Officers are Jack Heller (So) and Rahim Gokal (So).
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Sarvi Shahbazi