The Australian Business Awards are a national awards program
recognising the success, innovation and ethics of Australian companies and organisations
across all industry sectors.
Conducted annually, the awards honour Australia's industry leaders through the
acknowledgment of innovative business processes, product development, enterprise,
sustainability and overall business success.
The awards also recognise the important social and environmental contributions
made by organisations through excellence of service, commitment to their customers,
philanthropic ideals, ethical behaviour and environmental sustainability.
The most comprehensive of its kind, the awards are open to all Australian companies
and organisations, private or public.
This includes multi-national subsidiaries, government departments, agencies
or bodies, franchisors and non-government organisations are all eligible to
enter.
Entries are judged on
specific criteria underpinned by the program's values of success, innovation
and ethics.
The judging panel is carefully selected and coordinated by the Australian Business
Awards to ensure that the judging process is fair and objective, free of bias
or influence.
Receiving an Australian Business Award is an independent and prestigious endorsement
of your organisation and the quality of the products and services your organisation
produces.
If you are striving for excellence, the awards raise the bar across all aspects
of business and provide you with ways to benchmark against top performers in
your industry.
Submitting an entry provides your organisation with the opportunity to review
its business performance and identify its core strengths.
A valuable resource of evidence and endorsement that can be put to good use
in a variety of communications, creating opportunities for publicity, positive
business profiling and heightened credibility within your industry.
The Awards are an opportunity for Australian companies to gain that competitive
advantage by having their achievements recognised whilst highlighting their
best products and services.
The Australian Business Award winners are acknowledged as industry leaders and
named the elite of their industry.
The selected organisations are eligible to publicise their achievement and display
the Australian Business Awards symbol on their marketing and promotional material
including the packaging and promotion of their award winning products and services.
Use of the Australian Business Awards name and trademarks is only permitted
under licence from the Australian Business Awards and must comply with the Australian
Business Awards Licence Agreement.
In order to recover some of the administrative costs related to the provision, protection and proper use of the licensed material a condition of use is the
payment of a licence fee. The Australian Business Awards Licence Agreement and
Fee Schedule can viewed upon entry registration.
Timetable for the 2009 Awards 2009 Entries are now closed Winners announced 19 June 2009 Register now to be notified for the 2010 Awards