Nominees
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2008 Business3000 Nominees
Nominee: mag nation
Sahil Merchant & Ravi Pathare Directors
mag nation is the brain child of Sahil & Ravi and is the world's first and only magazine superstore with a growing number of bricks and mortar retail stores in Australia and New Zealand.
Stocking over 4,000 magazine titles, they have the largest range of maintstream and special interest magazines in the galaxy.
Magazines are Sahil and Ravi's passion and they want to share their product with the world and to continually strive to exceed the highest expectations of their customers.
Nominee: Down Syndrome Victoria
Catherine McAlpine Executive Director
The Down Syndomw Association of Victoria was established by a group of interested parents in 1978. It is essentially a peer-support service operated by volunteers.
Since then they have grown in professionalism, employing a Family Support Coordinator and Adult Support Coordinator to provide advice and counselling services.
They also operate family support networks throughout the state, most of which are play groups or coffee groups facilitated by a volunterr.
Nominee: Sales Force
Stuart French - Manager - Culture Salmat Group
SalesForce is a division of Salmat and is the largest out source Contact centre and Direct Sales channel provider in Australia.
Salesforce employs over 5000 team members over ten centers of excellence across sites in regional Victoria, NSW and Queensland with major hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Kuala Lumpur.
Working with some of Australias most recognizable brands, SalesForce has been named Best Employer in Australia and New Zealand through the Hewitt and associates Best Employer in Australia and New Zealand Awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
SalesForce was named the fastest growing business in Australia through the GIO Business Star Awards in 1999.
Nominee: Red Bubble
Martin Hosking - Executive Chairman
RedBubble is an online art-gallery and creative community.
The Site, launched just over a year ago, on 2 February 2007 is now the largest art related site in Australia (Hitwise) and one of the fastest
growing in the world at 30% per month.
With 50,000 members from all over the world, RedBubble provides an artistic alternative to such social networking sites as Facebook and MySpace. Sales on the site have tracked member growth and RedBubble is on track to do more than $1 million in sales for its first financial year of operations.
Nominee: Virtual Enterprise Australia Ltd
John Macdonald - CEO VEA
Virtual Enterprise Australia manages a virtual economy in which over 100 Virtual Enterprises (simulated businesses) are managed and operated by students as they learn and develop business skills in partnership with:
A real business mentor
An educational institution
Their teacher, trainer or lecturer
Students in these VEs trade with one another and over 5500 counterparts internationally. Thus, they learn about business operations and complexities, how to make business decisions, to develop business plans; and importantly, why some businesses flourish and others fail.
At the same time, they acquire nationally recognised industry competencies
Nominee: Aruspex Pty Ltd
Tess Watson & Stacy Chapman - Co-founders
Aruspex is a young but fast growing Australian business that delivers Strategic Workforce Planning solutions that help organisations design and attain their future workforce.
Aruspex’s intuitive CAPTure planning software goes beyond simple reporting; it analyzes internal and external demographic trends, identifies future workforce gaps and guides executives and HR professionals to solve different scenarios. The Aruspex model was developed through years of practical experience, and they are passionate about workforce planning.
In addition, Aruspex offers a comprehensive consultation service engaging clients in depth to assist in building & strengthening their Workforce Planning, host workshops for clients and the public on learning workforce planning fundamentals
Nominee: haul
Scott Kilmartin - Owner
haul…Pop Culture Recyclers
Haul manufactures a range of fashion accessories and corporate gifts from recycled materials including used advertising billboards, truck inner-tubes and number plates.
Evolving from a hobby in Tasmania selling a single product from a market card table. The biz re-branded as haul in 2004, now wholesales to specialty retailers & makes green promotional products and eco-gifts for companies including BP, Jetstar, SEEK, AGL, Origin Energy, NRMA & Virgin Mobile
Nominee: Aesop
Michael O'Keeffe - CEO
In February 1987 Aesop was established in Melbourne with clear and simple ambitions - to create the best skin, hair and body care products on the planet and deliver them elegantly, honestly and intelligently.
Our core focus at Aesop has always been premium product efficacy, sensory pleasure and safety. We aim to deliver these objectives with solid science, uncomplicated packaging and an unwavering sense of humour.
In Australia alone Aesop is represented by 11 signature stores and 9 counters. Now in our 21st year, we have grown to over 140 employees and have offices in Melbourne, London and Tokyo and distributors and subsidiaries throughout Asia, Europe and the USA.
Nominee: Oodles.com
Directors - Des & Steve Sherlock
Oodles.com is a Melbourne based company that allows business travellers to compare and save oodles from the 5 major car rental brands in less than 2 minutes.
Founded by brothers Steve and Des Sherlock officially in 2006, after several years of prototyping and funding raising, they came up with a software solution that connects directly to multiple rental company’s own reservation systems, to allow a single screen comparison of live internet prices rather than going from site to site.
Simply put Oodles takes the leg work out of finding the best deals for car rental currently in Australia, New Zealand and the US with many more countries to come
Nominee: Lachesis Biosciences Pty Ltd
Mr Miguel Wood, Executive Director
Lachesis Biosciences is focused on bringing preventive healthcare to life.
Founded in 2005 the company
seeks to develop and ommercialise innovative proprietary products/ services in the preventive healthcare field via the convergence of information and healthcare technologies.
Our company vision is: “Bringing preventive healthcare to life”
Personal health optimiser® is a new, secure, personalised, web-based service to help customers
improve their health and well-being through primary intervention.
It was developed by a Registered Pharmacist, in consultation with a Doctor and Dietitian and is accredited by the Health on the Net Foundation (www.hon.ch).
Currently, the leading causes of death are preventable chronic diseases, yet in Australia we only
spend about 2% of our current healthcare expenditure on public health and prevention services.
Personal health optimiser provides customers with affordable (about $80 p.a), online primary
intervention from the convenience of their own home.
Nominee: Curried lint Productions (Quiz Meisters Trivia)
Founders: Steffan van Lint & Peter Curry
Operating for over four years now, Curried Lint Productions currently runs over 45 Quiz Meisters Trivia shows across the country – every week
We provide entertainment and infrastructure to pubs, bars, corporations and fundraising groups through the means of a film based, comedy infused trivia concept called Quiz Meisters Trivia. Our service creates a fun and social experience that help clients build regular cliental, increase profits, raise funds and build morale…and we disguise all of this serious stuff with a tongue-in-cheek attitude that transforms drool into cool!
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