A family-owned manufacturer and exporter of custom-made agricultural machinery that began 20 years ago in a farm workshop has won top honours in the 2010 Telstra South Australian Business Awards.
Kelly Engineering has evolved from a machine-repairing hobby business in the Southern Flinders Ranges into an award-winning supplier of innovative farm machinery to markets in North America, Denmark, South Africa and New Zealand.
Panasonic Australia Managing Director meets Jessica Watson to find out how she used her Panasonic Lumix products on her succesful bid to become the youngest person to sail solo non-stop and unasissted around the world.
Prior to Jessica’s 210 day trip Panasonic Australia MD, Steve Rust, met up with her to supply her with with 4 Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 ruggedised laptops to assist in her journey. Steve recently boarded the ‘Pink Lady’ again to catch up with Jessica to see how the Toughbooks faired. She describes them as ‘completely indestructible’, even when being soaked in salt water, and used them for a wide variety of tasks on board including forecasting the weather, email, troubleshooting problems with her team, navigation and even a bit of schoolwork.
A Deakin business that provides information security consulting and testing services for government and commercial clients has won top honours in the 2010 Telstra ACT Business Awards.
stratsec has grown from a three-person start-up in 2004 to a market-leading business with 40 employees and offices throughout Australia and in Singapore.
The business was announced as the Telstra ACT Business of the Year on the 6th July at the 18th Telstra ACT Business Awards after earlier winning the Panasonic Australia Medium Business Award.
Telstra have announced the finalists in the 2010 Telstra Business Awards for ACT, Queensland, Victoria, Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales. The judges were impressed by all the finalists growth plans which included national expansion and international exporting. A shortlist of over a hundred small and medium sized businesses from ACT, Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory Western Territory, South Australia and New South Wales have been chosen as finalists for this year’s awards, with Panasonic sponsoring the ‘Medium Business Award’. For the first time in its 18-year-history the awards offered entrants the chance to get a free ‘Business Health Check’. The ‘Business Health Check’, which was developed in conjunction with the NSW Business Chamber, confirmed that all the territories’ leading firms had solid business plans in place.
“The Health Check showed that all of the companies selected as finalists had thorough plans looking as far as a decade ahead and were primed and ready to seek out future growth opportunities. This is well above the national average, where less than half of all small and medium businesses have business plans.These leading businesses are also focused on knowing their customers better, increasing productivity, enhancing day-to-day processes and expanding their product offering.”
Deena Shiff, Telstra Business Group Managing Director & Tesltra Business Awards Ambassador
