Accounting | Accounting firms, taxation agents, financial management services |
Accounting Bookkeeping Services | Bookkeepers managing a company's financial accounts. |
Agricultural Services | Farmers, packaging of primary products, support services, farming equipment |
Arts, Crafts & Gifts | Artists, craft stores, gift stores, pottery, embroidery, textile crafts, galleries, crystal, and spiritual stores |
Automotive Mechanical Repairs | Mechanics, Servicing electrical and mechanical vehicle systems |
Automotive Services | Mechanics, service centres, panel beaters, petrol stations, tyre fitters, car sales, car detailing, auto electrical, automotive accessories |
Automotive Smash Repairs | Panel beaters, spray painters, spare parts, wreckers |
Bakery/Cake Business | Cake shops, patisseries, bakeries, celebration cakes, home speciality, wholesale and retail |
Barbers | Specialists in men's haircuts and styling |
Bathroom Improvement | Bathroom renovation, bathroom products, wholesale and retail |
Beauty and Skincare Services | Beauty salon, day spa, laser/cosmetic, spray tans, hair removal |
Brows and Lashes | Eyebrow and eyelash services |
Builder / Renovations | Builder, granny flats, building renovations / additions |
Business Coaching | Business coaches guide a businessperson in the pursuit of their work goals. |
Business Consultancy | Business consultants work with company managers and business owners to guide them in improving their organizations |
Business Services | Business to business services, sign writers, printers, publishing, office fitouts |
Butcher | Butcher wholesale and retail |
Buyers Agent | Buying agents or purchasing agents |
Café | Café, coffee shop, coffee bar, casual dining |
Cake Shop / Patisserie | Cake shops, patisseries, celebration cakes, wholesale and retail |
Children's Services | Children's entertainment, children's health and sporting |
Chiropractor | Treatment of the spine, aches and pain, muscle stiffness or chronic conditions |
Cleaning Services | Cleaning companies residential and commercial |
Conveyancers | Legal work for property lease or purchase |
Dance Studio | Studios that teach dance for all ages, ballet schools, performance studios |
Dental Services | Dentists, orthodontists, cosmetic dentistry |
Digital Marketing | Agency using internet and online digital technologies including social media for marketing and SEO. |
Disability Support Services | Providers of services and support for people living with disability. |
Doctors Surgery | General practitioners, surgeries, home doctors |
Early Childhood Services | Daycare, long daycare, family daycare, services |
Educational Services | Tutoring, life coaching, industry training, first aid training, trade education, driving schools, swim schools |
Electrical Business | Electricians, residential and/or commercial. |
Environmental Business | Any business with a focus on environmental sustainability. |
Event Management | Event Management |
Fashion | Men's fashion, women's fashion, children's fashion, formal wear, dress hire, boutiques, stylists |
Fashion Designer | Fashion experts who create original clothing and accessories. |
Fast Food/Takeaway Shop | Hamburger shops, fish & chips, takeaway franchises, sandwich shops, kebab shops, pizza takeaway |
Financial Services | Mortgage broker, lending services, investment, lending, and management of money and assets |
Fitness Services | Personal trainers, outdoor fitness, health and wellbeing, fitness coach/mentoring, gyms |
Florist | Flower shops, flower deliveries, wholesale and retail |
Fresh Food | Fruit & vegetable shops, seafood outlets, deli and gourmet food, food subscription services, farmers market |
Garden Centres | Retail operation that sells plants and related products for gardens. |
Gym | A complex providing exercise and strength training equipment. |
Hairdressers | Hairdressers, stylists, hair bars, mobile hairdressers |
Health Improvement Services | Massage therapists, occupational therapy, accupuncture and alternative therapy |
Home & Garden Improvement | Gardeners, furniture shops, furniture design, Garden products, trees, shrubs, fertilisers and garden tools |
Home Specialty Cakes | At home cake baking business for celebrations. |
Information Technology | Hardware and software used to create, store, communicate, transmit, manipulate, and display information and data |
Interior Design | Experts who make interior spaces functional, safe and beautiful. |
Jeweller | Jewellers, diamond traders, jewellery design |
Kitchen improvement | Kitchen renovation, kitchen products, wholesale and retail |
Landscaper | Design, plan and maintain gardens and parks. |
Legal Services | Lawyers, intellectual property, solicitors and barristers, legal services |
Make-up Artist | Make-up studio, mobile make-up artist |
Manufacturing | Raw materials are transformed into finished goods - including food, beauty, building products and accessories. |
Marketing Services | Marketing, public relations, branding, graphic design, advertising services, direct mail, corporate video production |
Martial Arts | Martial arts academy, self defence |
Migration Services | Emergency relief for migrants, Family and domestic violence financial assistance |
Music Tuition | Professional musician/teacher teaching private instrumental/vocal lessons |
Nail Artist | Nail salon, mobile nail artists |
NDIS Provider | A person, business or organisation who delivers NDIS funded supports to participants. |
New Retail Business | Retail businesses must be in operation for less than 2 years at the time of awards entries closing date. |
New Service Business | Service businesses must be in operation for less than 2 years at the time of awards entries closing date. |
Online Business | Businesses that have no shopfront and sell products in an online capacity. |
Optometrist | Examine, diagnose and treat diseases and disorders that affect your eyes and vision |
Painter | Painters, residential and/or commercial. |
Performing Arts | Dance studios, music schools, acting schools, drama academies |
Pest Control | Specialist in animal and pest removal |
Pet Groomers | Cut and style pet hair. Maintaining pet health. |
Pet Services | Veterinarians, animal training, pet accessories, pet cremation |
Pharmacy | Chemist shops, compounding chemists |
Physiotherapy | Experts in the human body and movement including sports injuries. |
Plumbing Services | Professional who fits and repairs pipes, fittings, and other apparatus of water supply, sanitation, or heating systems |
Podiatry | Treatment of the feet and their ailments |
Professional Medical Services | Qualified professionals conducting services directly related to the profession of the practice of medicine. |
Professional Services | Architects, ISO certification, research, SEO, web design |
Psychology | Professionals providing help with issues such as anxiety, depression, stress and eating disorders. |
Real Estate | Real estate agents, buyers agents, commercial agents |
Recruitment Services | Recruitment agencies, work placement |
Removalist | Professionals in the moving of household items or office equipment from one location to another |
Restaurant | Fine dining and family restaurants |
Retail Sole Operator | Any retail business that is owned and operated by a single individual and do not have staff. |
Services | Delivering expert services without physical products |
Social Enterprise Business | Any business that applies strategies to maximise improvements in financial, social and environmental wellbeing. |
Sole Operator | Any business that is owned and operated by a single individual and do not have staff. |
Specialised Retail Small Business | Retail businesses that focus on specific product categories |
Specialised Small Business | Any business that specialises in industry services. |
Speech Pathology | Prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication disorders |
Sport and Recreation Business | Sports, camping, recreation business |
Strata Management | Strata management, body corporate management, property management |
Tattoo Artist | Designing and application of tattoos or body art. |
Tourism | Hotels, accommodation, tour operators, bed and breakfast, souvenir shops |
Trade Services | Specialised trade services |
Transport and Logistics | Transport companies, warehousing and distribution, shipping management, freight forwarding |
Veterinarian | Vet practices |
Web Development | Web/digital design and improvement |
Wedding Services | Bridal wear, dress design, wedding planners, wedding mc, venues, wedding car hire |
Yoga & Pilates | Yoga and Pilates studios |