2023 Telstra Best of Business Awards
State Winners.
Get to know the 2023 Telstra Best of Business Awards State Winners. We congratulate them on their success, as well as every business that entered. Next stop, Nationals.
Get to know our remarkable State Winners.
Championing Health.
State Winner
1300 MEDICS
1300 MEDICS is one of the leading providers of medical services and risk management to public and private events across Australia. The team are a diverse group of clinical specialists, including qualified paramedics, nurses, and first responders. Their combined experience across thousands of events places them in a unique position to provide specialised service, while setting the standard in event medical care.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
Abundance Global
Abundance Global is an education, mentoring and support community for small to medium enterprise and entrepreneurs who desire to create intergenerational wealth for themselves and their community. They specialise in providing leaders with the training and support needed so they can, with confidence and clarity, use their business as a pathway to a remarkable life. Abundance Global's mission is to support one million socially conscious entrepreneurs globally by 2027.
Promoting Sustainability.
State Winner
AQUA CLEAN TAS
Aqua Clean Tas is dedicated to developing high performance net cleaning systems. By implementing slow action high torque scrubbing blades instead of high pressure water to clean netting, Aqua Clean Tas has revolutionised net cleaning designs. Co-Founder Tim Ford has committed the company to ongoing research and development to extend the cleaning system to all cages and netting configurations.
Building Communities.
State Winner
BET Group
BET Group is a South Australian, family-owned and operated provider of stylish accessible homes and support services for people living with disability. The team employs more than 230 local South Australians and Victorians dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of people with disability every day.
Building Communities.
State Winner
Bridgewater Police and Community Youth Club
The Bridgewater Police and Citizens Youth Club is an independent organisation that specialises in youth engagement and support, for all ages and demographics. The organisation seeks to address local and societal issues ranging from crime prevention and work place readiness to educational engagement and social cohesion.
Promoting Sustainability.
State Winner
CARBONLITE ENTERPRISES
CarbonLite is a profit for purpose company, established in 2013 in Melbourne with an ambitious vision to transform the housing sector to become ecologically sustainable. CarbonLite specialises in the pre-fabricated construction of ultra-energy efficient homes, allowing people to build their dream home anywhere, so that it performs at any time of the year without the need for excessive heating or cooling.
Building Communities.
State Winner
CLUBMAP
CLUBMAP is an innovative community club support business delivering on its stated purpose of creating healthy clubs for connected communities. Beginning as a passion project for its five founders, CLUBMAP has become a growing online business supporting metro, regional and remote community sporting clubs across Australia.
Outstanding Growth.
State Winner
Common Ground Trails PTY LTD
Common Ground Trails is a trail consultancy who have been specialising in all facets of developing and establishing mountain biking and walking facilities since 2014, aiming to connect people with trails, spaces, landscapes and most importantly each other. They create opportunities for people to connect with the environment and get outdoors.
Accelerating Women.
State Winner
Conserving Beauty
Conserving Beauty creates efficacious waterless beauty products to help people's skin and save water, carbon and waste in the process. With a background in science and a passion for social justice, Natassia Nicolao founded Conserving Beauty in 2021. The brand is financially backed by environmental and government impact funds, and has impact partnerships with organisations including the Water Footprint Network, the Australian Water Association, SeaTrees, Trace and Provenance.
Championing Health.
State Winner
Dental Boutique
For the last nine years, Dental Boutique has been crafting exquisite smiles that are intricate, naturally beautiful and unique. The evolution of Dental Boutique was inspired by Founder Dr May Chan's personal story, to help people overcome their fears to achieve the dental health and smile they deserve.
Promoting Sustainability
State Winner
Electromotiv
Founded in 2017, Electromotiv allows transport businesses to transition their fleet to zero-emissions technology. Partners can lease or run their own zero-emission bus or truck and Electromotiv provides the charging and refuelling stations to power them. The team are made up of experienced professionals in the fields of engineering, business operations, finance and project delivery.
Outstanding Growth.
State Winner
Ellis Richmond Pty Ltd
Ellis Richmond provides accounting services to help clients measure and manage carbon emissions, helping them to understand their impact and how they can make a difference. Through specialised technology, they are able to build a community of businesses measuring and sharing their emissions data, with the aim of making more informed business decisions when it comes to sustainability.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
Ellis Richmond Pty Ltd
Ellis Richmond provides accounting services to help clients measure and manage carbon emissions, helping them to understand their impact and how they can make a difference. Through specialised technology, they are able to build a community of businesses measuring and sharing their emissions data, with the aim of making more informed business decisions when it comes to sustainability.
Indigenous Excellence.
State Winner
evolve FM
Evolve FM delivers integrated facility management services for both public and private sector businesses. With Indigenous heritage founders, the business is one of the only Indigenous majority-owned full service facilities management companies in Australia.
Accelerating Women.
State Winner
FBW Gynaecology Plus
Founded by Dr Fariba Willison in 2009, FBW Gynaecology Plus is for women, by women, and offers expert knowledge and treatment in women's health, fertility and wellness. They provide a complete vision for well-being with an approach that goes beyond treatment, extending into quality of life.
Championing Health.
State Winner
FBW Gynaecology Plus
Founded by Dr Fariba Willison in 2009, FBW Gynaecology Plus is for women, by women, and offers expert knowledge and treatment in women's health, fertility and wellness. They provide a complete vision for well-being with an approach that goes beyond treatment, extending into quality of life.
Outstanding Growth.
State Winner
FONZ
FONZ is Australia's leading designer and manufacturer of quality two-wheel electric motorcycles and scooters. FONZ is proud to be a future-facing company, operating at the intersection of sustainability, style and superior performance.
Promoting Sustainability.
State Winner
FONZ
FONZ is Australia's leading designer and manufacturer of quality two-wheel electric motorcycles and scooters. FONZ is proud to be a future-facing company, operating at the intersection of sustainability, style and superior performance.
Outstanding Growth.
State Winner
GoBoat Australia
GoBoat makes the water accessible to everyone, one eco-friendly boat at a time. GoBoat offers a premium, safe, family-friendly picnic boat for exploring cities from a new perspective.
Building Communities.
State Winner
Goodwill Projects
Goodwill Projects was founded by Mark Power, a passionate advocate for small and emerging Australian businesses. Having become one of Australia's largest vendor management businesses, the team create flawless events and memorable experiences. They believe no idea is too small and big ideas really do come to life, with good attitude, ideas and people.
Building Communities.
State Winner
Happiness Co
Happiness Co was created by Julian Pace in 2017, as a legacy to his father, who took his own life on Julian's 21st birthday. Happiness Co is a social enterprise intending to tackle social problems, reduce suicide rates and improve the wellbeing of communities. The team runs tailored programs that deliver practical tools and strategies for finding happiness.
Championing Health.
State Winner
Happiness Co
Happiness Co was created by Julian Pace in 2017, as a legacy to his father, who took his own life on Julian's 21st birthday. Happiness Co is a social enterprise intending to tackle social problems, reduce suicide rates and improve the wellbeing of communities. The team runs tailored programs that deliver practical tools and strategies for finding happiness.
Indigenous Excellence.
State Winner
Hillery Group
Hillery Group is an Indigenous family-owned business founded in 1976. Today, the business is led by next generation, Luke and Liam Hillery. They operate five quarries and provide quarry products, landscaping supplies and plant hire.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
Holdaccess (WUNA)
Holdaccess (WUNA) provide organisations with an independant tool designed by Indigenous people for Indigenous people, to ensure they have a transition to digital identification verified capabilities at their fingertips. The Diji Wallet (digital) function holds diverse identification and skills capabilities that can be shared instantly at anytime.
Building Communities.
State Winner
Holdaccess (WUNA)
Holdaccess (WUNA) provide organisations with an independant tool designed by Indigenous people for Indigenous people, to ensure they have a transition to digital identification verified capabilities at their fingertips. The Diji Wallet (digital) function holds diverse identification and skills capabilities that can be shared instantly at anytime.
Accelerating Women.
State Winner
HowToo
HowToo makes building digital training courses simple and accessible for businesses of every size. With HowToo, organisations can take back control of their company training and put the power to create and update their courses back in the hands of their teams and subject matter experts.
Outstanding Growth.
State Winner
INCREDIBLE SMILES
As a modern family dental practice serving Munno Para West and Playford City in Adelaide, Incredible Smiles is committed to providing patients with comprehensive dental care of the highest standard. The team deliver exceptional care to help optimise the health of their patients as well as enhance their smiles.
Indigenous Excellence.
State Winner
Indigeco
Indigeco is a labour hire and recruitment service committed to empowering Aboriginal and disadvantaged people connect with meaningful employment and career pathways. Indigeco’s team is dedicated to improving employment opportunities and encouraging inclusive workforce development into mainstream recruitment.
Championing Health.
State Winner
JDRF Australia
JDRF Australia is the leading non-Government funder of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) research in Australia, working towards a world without T1D. For 50 years, JDRF has been at the centre of every major T1D breakthrough and advancement, fundamentally changing the way people live with the condition.
Championing Health.
State Winner
Launceston Health Hub
The Launceston Health Hub provides a wide variety of health services all on the one site with the vision to be Northern Tasmania's Leading Health Ecosystem. Inspired to provide high-quality, comprehensive and timely care to the community of Launceston, Dr Jerome Muir Wilson along with his wife Dr Jaclyn O'Keefe and business partner Dr Gaurav Singh, completed building the medical centre in 2014.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
Liberate Learning
Liberate Learning is one of the fastest growing and most respected digital and blended learning services providers in Australia. The team advise and equip clients with digital learning strategies, apps, learning platforms, technology, eLearning, and blended learning solutions.
Championing Health.
State Winner
National Nursing Agency
National Healthcare Services and National Nursing Agency are nursing agencies based in Canberra, that specialise in providing compassionate and experienced professional registered and enrolled nurses, and assistants in nursing. The agencies are family owned and operated for more than 22 years.
Building Communities.
State Winner
NATIVE SECRETS
The Native Secrets Group manufactures and sells natural skin care products and essential oils. Proudly Indigenous owned and Supply Nation certified, they extract bioactive ingredients from wild-harvested Australian natives and transforms them into high quality natural skincare products.
Promoting Sustainability.
State Winner
Pleasant State
Pleasant State is working towards a sparkling clean world that's free of toxic cleaning chemicals and single-use plastics. Most everyday cleaning products are packaged in single-use plastic filled with toxic chemicals so Pleasant State developed 'just-add-water' cleaning bars. When dissolved, the innovative product makes a multi-purpose cleaner, hand and dish soap.
Indigenous Excellence.
State Winner
Print Junction
Print Junction is a print supplier that provides digital, offset and wide format print solutions, along with creative design and artwork services. Founded in 1996, the business has an experienced graphic design and pre-press team, with fully equipped offset and digital printing, in-house binding and finishing.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
Protective
Protective is an innovative Australian technology company that designs, manufactures and supplies industries worldwide with protective equipment for safety hazard identification and accident prevention. The team is dedicated to applying next generation technology to improve and protect the lives of the world's workforce, all while working towards reducing workplace incidents.
Building Communities.
State Winner
Region Group
Established in 2016 by Tim White and Michael McGoogan, Region Media is a for-purpose news technology platform committed to local news and community information. Their mission is to serve regional Australia by facilitating important conversations through trusted, balanced journalism.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
SILENTIUM DEFENCE
Silentium Defence is one of the global leaders in the design and deployment of passive surveillance systems. They specialise in tailored solutions designed to meet the critical surveillance and traffic management demands of high-end customers. The team build systems that will empower organisations to protect what matters, when it matters most.
Accelerating Women.
State Winner
Struber
Struber believe in building a better, brighter future through infrastructure. Their professional services have supported infrastructure projects across government, independent, national and international organisations. The team of specialists have the skills and expertise to provide practical and innovative services, who are passionate about projects that define our future.
Outstanding Growth.
State Winner
Style Bundle
Style Bundle provide a highly tailored gift curation service, assisting clients to showcase their brand through customised packaging and high-quality homeware products. With a growing team of more than 16 staff and a larger operational footprint, the business has broadened the Style Bundle model of gifting to an ever-increasing range of businesses around the country.
Promoting Sustainability.
State Winner
Succession Ecology
Succession Ecology is a multi-faceted environmental business that finds innovative solutions in nature. The organisation works with clients across a broad range of areas from the collection and sale of native seed, to ecological consulting and research. The team appreciates nature and what it can do, with a philosophy of 'why engineer something when nature can often do it better'.
Promoting Sustainability.
State Winner
The Bod Society
The Bod Society is a sustainable skincare brand that is pushing the boundaries of modern day skincare and packaging by focusing on creating products that are formulated and packaged using natural, vegan and earth-friendly ingredients.
Accelerating Women.
State Winner
The Bubble Launceston
The Bubble Launceston is a boutique specialist GP clinic providing sexual and reproductive women's health services, with a large focus on pregnancy and postpartum. The Bubble Launceston was founded in 2021 by Dr Natasha Vavrek, with the aim of providing quality women's health care in a safe and nurturing environment in a way that will educate, enable and empower women.
Accelerating Women.
State Winner
The Little Bar Cart
The Little Bar Cart is an indoor and outdoor mobile bar service that infuses celebrations and events with quality drinks and customer service. The businesses focus is on creating unforgettable hospitality experiences with class and sophistication for all types of events.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
The Mullion Group
The Mullion Group is an Australian-based software company, specialising in the measurement and modelling of land-based greenhouse gas emissions and removals. Through its software platform, FLINTpro, the Mullion Group takes data from satellites, ground measurements and models and converts this into actionable information for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Outstanding Growth.
State Winner
Valenhold
Specialising in mining services, Valenhold offers end to end solutions supporting mobile fleet operations. With exclusive access to proven parts and components, world - leading engineering and procurement teams, Valenhold can support projects no matter the size or complexity.
Embracing Innovation.
State Winner
Vantari VR
Vantari helps clinicians, nurses and students practice lifesaving medical procedures in a safe and scalable virtual reality environment before performing them on real patients. Its mission is to eliminate medical error and improve patient outcomes.
Accelerating Women.
State Winner
Wildly Strong
Founded by Jennifer Lee, Wildly Strong takes a different approach to women's health and fitness to educate women on the true foundations of health and wellbeing. Jennifer created the Wildly Strong Women's Health Academy, an online course offering teachings focused on mindset, nourishment, and movement.
Indigenous Excellence.
State Winner
Winyama Digital Solutions Pty Ltd
Winyama is an Indigenous owned and operated business specialising in Geographic Information Systems and Cloud solutions. The business works with commercial, public sector and First Nations organisations to create digital solutions that optimises the management of the Indigenous land estate in Australia.
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