Hawkesbury Finalists Revealed 2024 Australian Small Business Champion Awards

In what marks the 26th consecutive year of the Australian Small Business Champion Awards, more than 20 small businesses operating within the Hawkesbury area have been named finalists.

More than 5,500 entrants from across the country came, more than any other year to date.

These Awards specifically highlight the finest of Australia’s small businesses in the retail, services, and manufacturing industries across a total of more than 100 categories.

An independent national survey recently commissioned by Precedent Productions, which coordinates the Awards, found that 63 per cent of small business owners worked more than five days a week.

The Woolcott Research-conducted survey also found that 57 per cent of small business owners had a side hustle of some form, primarily for financial shortfall reasons.

Founder of the Australian Small Business Champion Awards and Managing Director of Precedent Productions Steve Loe said now more than ever was the time to strongly support the nation’s hardest working sector.

“I believe the resilience of Australia’s small business community is more evident today than ever before in recent memory, and it is absolutely deserving of national recognition,” Mr Loe said.

“The remarkable quantity and quality of submissions we received this year is testament to the triumphant spirit of so many small business operators - absolutely including those from the Hawkesbury area.

“We’re very much looking forward to celebrating the very best of this nation’s small businesspeople in spectacular style this April.”

Winners of the 2024 Australian Small Business Champion Awards will be revealed via two National Presentation Evening Gala events at Sydney’s The Star on April 12 and 13.

To be hosted by popular Nine presenter and journalist Jayne Azzopardi, this year’s National Presentation Gala features a star-studded entertainment line-up that is fitting to the Champion Awards’ biggest year in more than a quarter of a century.

Headline stage acts of this year’s event include Eurovision Royalty, Dami Im, the inspirational Harrison Craig, Johnny Manuel and the practically perfect in every way star of the recent Australian production of Mary Poppins, Stefanie Jones.

Hawkesbury area finalists of the 2024 Australian Small Business Champion Awards include:

• Raggedy Bits, North Richmond - Arts, Crafts & Gifts;
• Better Truck Repairs, South Windsor - Automotive Mechanical Repairs;
• Australian Beauty Clinic, Norwest - Beauty & Skincare Services;
• Messy Makers, North Richmond - Children’s Educational Services;
• One Giant Leap Australia Foundation, South Windsor - Children’s Educational Services;
• Daddys Burgers & Wings, Windsor - Fast Food/Takeaway Shop;
• Mousse and Co, Windsor - Hairdressers;
• ACRYO Australia, Norwest - Industrial Business;
• MILEX Technology, Windsor - Information Technology;
• Greenleaf Legal, Norwest - Legal Services;
• Jessica Vegas Professional Hair & Makeup, Norwest - Makeup Artist;
• Tappt Exterior Cleaning, Beaumont Hill - New Service Business;
• MG Painters Sydney, North Richmond - Painters;
• Fantasia Showstoppers, Richmond - Performing Arts;
• Heavenly Image Photography, The Ponds - Photography;
• The Performance Line sports Physiotherapy, Norwest - Physiotherapy;
• Norwest strata Management, Norwest - Professional Services;
• iPlace Recruitment, Norwest - Recruitment Services;
• Ensuites On Site, South Windsor - Specialised Small Business;
• D Jacks Transport & Removals, Pitt Town - Removalists;
• Dido’s Place, East Kurrajong - Tourism;
• Graham Trucking Co, Ebenezer - Transport and Logistics; and
• Chop Butchery, Richmond - Butcher.

Only one small business will be crowned champion per category.

IMAGE: Group celebrates Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2023.

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