Entries Open To 2024 Australian Small Business Champion Awards

Entries have officially opened to the 2024 Australian Small Business Champion Awards, and regional NSW small business operators are urged to apply.

It costs nothing to enter the nation’s pinnacle recognition awards program celebrating the achievements and considerable economic and cultural contributions of the millions of small business operators across the country.

Specifically highlighting the best of Australia’s small businesses in the retail, services and manufacturing industries, 2024 marks the 26th consecutive year of the Awards which have always seen a significant number of NSW-based winners from regional and rural areas.

Featuring more than 100 categories as well as special spotlight categories - Business of the Decade, Small Business Young Entrepreneur (aged 30 and younger), Small Business Entrepreneur (aged over 30) and the 2024 Growth Award.

Online entry to the 2024 Australian Small Business Champion Awards is free and will remain open until February 15, 2024.

Australian Government data tells us that small businesses provide employment for 5.1 million Aussies (nearly double that of big business) and account for one-third of Australia’s GDP.

Small businesses also continue to play an important role in their local communities, despite an ongoing economic environment.

Awards Founder and Managing Director of Precedent Productions, Steve Loe has been coordinating the Australian Small Business Champion Awards since 1999.

“From high inflation and exceptional increases in operating expenses, to challenges associated with staff hire, productivity and the overall current high cost of living, there’s no disputing that Australian small businesses are currently doing it very tough,” Mr Loe said.

“It is often rightly said that small business is the backbone of the national economy.

“The millions of Australian small business operators ought to be honoured now more than ever before, not just for their economic contribution but also for their invaluable support of community-based initiatives and worthwhile causes that couldn’t otherwise be supported so significantly.

“Even after more than two decades of presenting the Australian Small Business Champion Awards, I am still in absolute awe of the resilience and remarkable triumphs of our nation’s small business operators. “It is truly a privilege to help shine a deserved spotlight on these small business champions. “From regional and rural areas to the suburbs and capital cities, small business operators from all parts of the country are encouraged to enter the Awards - free of charge - as we strive to celebrate the people behind the small businesses that shape their local communities and our nation as a whole.”

Finalists will be announced during March and 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, 2024.

Visit businesschampions.com.au for more information and to submit an entry form.

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