Westpac Waikato Business Excellence Awards 2009

CATEGORY	FINALISTS	WINNER
Newstalk ZB Not-For-Profit and Public Sector Organisation Award	Age Concern	Sport Waikato
	Community Living Trust
	Sport Waikato
Hamilton Innovation Award	Webspring Ltd	Sport Waikato
	Sport Waikato
WEL Networks Best Emerging Business Award	Mitre 10 Mega Hamilton	Webspring Ltd
	The Barn Company Waikato Ltd
	Webspring Ltd
Deloitte Business Growth Award	Red Bins Ltd	HIGHLY COMMENDED:
	Hamilton Garden Bags & Red Lid Bins	Red Bins Ltd
		Hamilton Garden Bags & Red Lid Bins
Waikato Times Retail Excellence Award	Fresho	HIGHLY COMMENDED:
	Mitre 10 Mega Hamilton	Mitre 10 Mega Hamilton
Tompkins Wake Excellence in Service Award	Community Living Trust	Life Care Consultants Ltd
	Life Care Consultants Ltd
	Te Akau Thoroughbreds
	Hamilton Garden Bags & Red Lid Bins
Gallagher Agriculture and Primary Producation Award	NZ Farm Environment Award Trust	Te Akau Thoroughbreds
	Newmont Waihi Gold
	Te Akau Thoroughbreds
Stafford Engineering Manufacturing Excellence Award	The Barn Company Waikato Ltd	Longveld Engineering Ltd
	Longveld Engineering Ltd
Waikato Management School Leader of the Year	Janet Brothers, Life Care Consultants Ltd	Les Roa, Longveld Engineering Ltd
	Les Roa, Longveld Engineering Ltd
	David Ellis, Te Akau Thoroughbreds
	Murray Bain, Red Bins Ltd
ACC Workplace Safety Award	Environfuels Ltd	Newmont Waihi Gold Ltd
	Life Care Consultants Ltd
	Longveld Engineering Ltd
	Newmont Waihi Gold
	Red Bins Ltd
Westpac Waikato Business of the Year Award	Longveld Engineering Ltd	Longveld Engineering Ltd
	Life Care Consultants Ltd
	Sport Waikato

Hamilton is a smart city full of smart people and businesses that provides a significant commercial hub for the greater Waikato.

With good leadership in Councils and committed agencies for business this region is full of opportunity.  Opportunity that makes others sit up and take notice.

One of the greatest opportunities for businesses is the annual Westpac Waikato Business Excellence Awards.  The process involves business owners stepping away from the day to day operation and looking at their business from a different perspective, one that considers the plans and strategy for a sustainable future.

Winning a business excellence award provides more than just a trophy.  The judging process is robust using the Baldridge system and is generously undertaken by local business people with mana in the region.

Winning a business excellence award is one of the best marketing opportunities a business can have.  Being edified by your peers is a significant and strong testimonial of your ability and excellence.

Looking for great staff or more customers?  One of the recent winners says, ‘that winning the award has ensured they have a rich pool of talent to choose from because people want to work for organisations that are successful.’  Customers are the same, positive energy and recognition of excellence is a great draw card.  People go where there is energy and other good people.

Some organisations use it as a training ground for the future.  When you are working hard in/on your business, time to reflect on systems and strategies is easily re allocated to support your team meeting deadlines or other pressures.  The entry process will provide business owners with the information to assist in identifying future opportunities, staff development possibilities and a template for a sustainable and successful future.

Seeing value in this process can only be truly experienced by being part of it.  The opportunity to acknowledge your team at the Black Tie Dinner and Award ceremony is great for teamwork and networking.  Networking has become one of the most important business tools in this decade.   A recent speaker for the Chamber said that ‘Trust is the new currency and trust comes from meeting people face to face and building a positive relationship’.

The Waikato Chamber is proud and acknowledges the support of its family of sponsors.  The majority of these sponsors have been supporting this Event for the last five years.

We wish all of the competitors well for the Westpac Waikato Business Excellence Awards 2009 and we look forward to a fantastic celebration of diversity, passion and sheer grit with you and your team.

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