May 18th saw over 500 people attend a huge night of glitz glamour and loads of bling at Port Panthers to celebrate local business with the Coastline Greater Port Macquarie Business Awards. A big congratulations to Port Medical Aesthetics Clinic on taking out Business of The Year Award. Congratulations to all our winners and to all the finalists.
And the winners are:
Accommodation – Beachscape Holiday Rentals
Automotive Services - Get Detailed by Joseph
Childcare Education & Training - Port Macquarie Performing Arts
Cleaning & Property Maintenance Services – Wonder Women Cleaning
Community & Social Services – Omnicare
Construction – Hotondo Homes Mid North Coast
Creative Service & Communication - Lucy Humphries Photography
Financial Services – Farnsworth Financial
Food Production & catering - Soul Sister Grazing
Hair & Beauty – Lux Laser & Aesthetics
Health & Wellbeing – Port Medical Aesthetics Clinic
Hotels, Clubs & Bars – Panthers Port Macquarie
Industry Manufacturing & Engineering – On Time Blinds
New Business – Florence Jones
Professional & Business Services (5 Employees or less) – Belle Property
Professional & Business Services (6 Employees or more) – PC Pitstop
Restaurants & cafes – Round & Round
Retail (5employees or less) – Touchwood Flowers
Retail (6 ormore employees) – Coast 2 Coast
Tourism & Attractions – Wildnets Adventure Parks
Women In Business – Rebecca Stockwell - Soul Sister Grazing
Community Impact Award – Tender Funerals
Outstanding Employee – Sarah James - Port Macquarie Performing Arts
Outstanding Young Business Leader – Laura Mayes – LJ Finance Capital
Outstanding Business Leader - Catherine Shaw – The Nature School
Employer of Choice (20 or under employees) – Port Medical Aesthetics Clinic
Employer of Choice (over 20 employees) – Just Better Care Port Macquarie
Excellence in Innovation – Coast 2 Coast
Excellence in Sustainability – Port Medical Aesthetics Clinic
Outstanding Community Organisation – The Nurtured Village Hampers
Excellence in Micro Business – Any Occasion Cakes and Party Food
Excellence in Small Business – Port Macquarie Performing Arts
Excellence in Large Business – Eire Constructions
Business of the year - Port Medical Aesthetics Clinic
June 14th, we have a Boardroom Lunch on Leadership, Resilience & Triumph with special guest presenter Lorraine Hatton OAM (Aunty Lorraine).
Aunty Lorraine is a very inspirational lady with a military career of over 21 years & widely recognised as a pioneer for indigenous and non-indigenous servicewomen.
Aunty Lorraine was the first Aboriginal female to be promoted to Warrant Officer in Australian Army history.She mentors throughout QLD & Northern NSW with The Preston Campbell Foundation & the Gold Coast Titans Deadly Futures Secondary Schools program.
Aunty Lorraine is widely recognised as a leader & ambassador of Community Capability Building & Relationship Enhancement and is a keynote speaker to a variety of Government, Corporate & Community Based Organisations & a highly inspirational role model.
We look forward to you joining us at The Westport Club for this inspirational lunch. To register head to our events page.
25th June we have an evening of wine and cheese and learning more about the process of wine making with a tour of Cassegrain’s Barrell room. This event will also be a thank you to our Business Awards sponsors.
Happy end of financial year and I look forward to catching up with you all next month.
Until then have a great month
Alex