Category: Small Business

Jetting off with July: CFO Paul Stevenage

16/10/2024

FINANCE, SMALL BUSINESS

Although he’s only had his feet under the CFO’s desk of luggage start-up July for a few months, Paul Stevenage says the business has more potential for growth than any other he's worked in.

Published in CFO Magazine

Beer, bugs and biomass: global techs help make food chains more sustainable

31/7/2023

REGIONAL, TECHNOLOGY

With the race on in Australia to explore more sustainable food production methods, global technology groups Bühler and Vyncke are backing local agribusinesses to fast-track innovation in fields such as complementary proteins, biomass, insects and beers.

Published in evokeAG

Lifelong bee obsession delivers Sweet Justice

10/7/2023

REGIONAL, SMALL BUSINESS, SOCIAL

Claire Moore never imagined her lifelong bee obsession would see her end up entrenched in Victoria’s criminal justice system, for good.

Published by OAK Magazine

Claire Moore, founder of honey enterprise, Sweet Justice. (Image: Emma Foster)

Former refugee’s fix for skills-starved construction industry

14/6/2023

SMALL BUSINESS, DIVERSITY, SOCIAL

As Australia’s construction sector remains hamstrung by a skills shortage, former asylum seeker Hedayat Osyan says refugees offer an untapped pool of workers ready to step up to meet demand.

First published by Westpac Wire.

Former asylum seeker Hedayat Osyan says refugees can help plug the construction industry skills shortage. (Emma Foster)

How to navigate the latest cyber scams

1/5/2023

TECHNOLOGY, SMALL BUSINESS

As financial losses to cyber fraud ratchet-up across Australia’s business community, Westpac experts explain the latest criminal tactics and how businesses can best avoid them.

Published by IQ.

New program boosts capacity of remote social enterprise

28/2/2023

SOCIAL, SMALL BUSINESS, INDIGENOUS

Like most start-up cofounders, Fraser Nai welcomes advice and connections that might help scale his community-focused cultural tourism platform, but concedes they’re often difficult to come by given the remote location of his business, in the Torres Strait.

Published by White Box Enterprises.

Strait Experience co-founders Fraser Nai and John Palmer (supplied)

New Afghan café makes big impact

23/9/2022

SOCIAL, DIVERSITY, SMALL BUSINESS

It’s not just the spiced lamb dumplings and Kabuli burgers filling Roya Rasuly with pride in Sydney city’s newest Afghan café, Kabul Social – it’s also the impact it’s having behind the scenes.

First published on Westpac Wire

Roya Rasuly, Plate It Forward HR manager, at Sydney’s newest Afghan food venue, Kabul Social. (Emma Foster)

Indigenous business builds up as supplier spend spreads

27/5/2022

INDIGENOUS

More doors are opening for Indigenous businesses as corporates lift diversity in supply chain spending, including on projects like the fitout of Westpac’s newest site at Parramatta Square.

First published on Westpac Wire.

Schiavello Ganbu’s Kyle Vander Kuyp (centre) with apprentices Elijah and Jediaha.

The lawyer turned start-up entrepreneur helping new mums

1/8/2021

Etta Watts-Russell, cofounder of startup Lactamo, with one of her four children. (Supplied)

SMALL BUSINESS, DIVERSITY, CAREER

When new mum and corporate lawyer Etta Watts-Russell discovered how common breastfeeding difficulties were, she decided to do something about it, throwing everything behind the birth of her start-up, Lactamo.

First published on Westpac Wire.

When your side-hustle makes the national stage

8/7/2021

SMALL BUSINESS, DIVERSITY, INDIGENOUS

Just days after soaking up the thrill of unveiling her fashion collection at the hottest couture event of the year, Julie Shaw slipped seamlessly back to work in her other job as an Indigenous careers’ consultant.

First published on Westpac Wire.

Julie Shaw (front, left), founder of fashion label MAARA Collective, with models during Australian Fashion Week. (Getty)

GOOD PAIR: Co-founding a family…and a social enterprise

15/6/2021

Couple Daniel (left) and Loretta Bolotin, co-founders of social enterprise Free to Feed, with their two children. (Supplied)

SOCIAL, GOODPAIR

After meeting randomly in Kenya, Australian couple Loretta and Daniel Bolotin have co-juggled the mammoth tasks of starting a family while realising their dream to create a food-sharing social enterprise.

First published on Westpac Wire.

Why walking and talking works wonders for women

19/3/2021

CARREER, DIVERSITY, SMALL BUSINESS

Bobbi Mahlab AM, Founder of Mentor Walks (Image: Emma Foster)

Bobbi Mahlab AM reckons there’s a mix of “science and magic” behind the success of her not-for profit women’s mentoring organisation, Mentor Walks, and the steady rise in participants suggests she is spot on.

First published in Westpac Wire.

New course to COVID recovery for SMEs

16/3/2021

SMALL BUSINESS

Travel specialist Justine Glen was among the first small business owners to take a new COVID recovery training course. (Supplied)

After Justine Glen’s boutique African safari business was blindsided by COVID-19, a new small business education course by TAFE and Westpac inspired a striking change in direction for her business.

First published on Westpac Wire.

Milking new farm tech to cut cost – and carbon

28/9/2020

REGIONAL, SMALL BUSINESS

Sam (left) and Peter Doolan. (Image: supplied)

After becoming a ‘guinea pig’ in a pioneering trial dubbed Keeping Carbon on the Farm, Doolan’s dairy is starting to reap the bottom-line rewards – and slash emissions – through enviro-friendly experiments.

First published in Westpac Wire

Switching from denim to scrubs

12/5/2020

SMALL BUSINESS

John Condilis, Nobody Denim. (Image: Supplied)

After leaping to help fill shortages of protective gowns, masks and scrubs for health workers, Nobody Denim’s John Condilis plans to make protective clothing a permanent part of his business.

First published in Westpac Wire.

Dairy farmers look to milk new opportunities

11/5/2020

REGIONAL, DIVERSITY, SMALL BUSINESS

Cressida Cains, Pecora Dairy. (Image: supplied)

Small dairy farmers have not escaped the COVID-19 fallout, but artisan cheesemaker Cressida Cains believes there are “incredibly exciting” opportunities for her industry emerging from the pandemic.

First published in Westpac Wire.

The 20-year-old PNG woman taking on tech

25/9/2018

SMALL BUSINESS, SOCIAL

Crystal Kewe. (Image: Emma Foster)

As a founder in a country with gender inequality and an embryonic tech scene, 20-year-old self-taught technologist Crystal Kewe is capturing the attention of global tech giants.

First published in Westpac Wire.

Behind Corban & Blair’s retail resilience

7/8/2018

SMALL BUSINESS

Amanda Blair (left) and Gillian Corban. (Image: Emma Foster)

As their business nudges 30 years, the co-founders of custom-designed product maker Corban & Blair reflect on three decades peppered with recessions, retail disruption and technological transformation.

First published in Westpac Wire.

Latest Published articles

Jetting off with July: CFO Paul Stevenage

Beer, bugs and biomass: global techs help make food chains more sustainable

Lifelong bee obsession delivers Sweet Justice

Former refugee’s fix for skills-starved construction industry

How to navigate the latest cyber scams

New program boosts capacity of remote social enterprise

New Afghan café makes big impact

Indigenous business builds up as supplier spend spreads

The lawyer turned start-up entrepreneur helping new mums

When your side-hustle makes the national stage

GOOD PAIR: Co-founding a family…and a social enterprise

Why walking and talking works wonders for women

New course to COVID recovery for SMEs

Milking new farm tech to cut cost – and carbon

Switching from denim to scrubs

Dairy farmers look to milk new opportunities

The 20-year-old PNG woman taking on tech

Behind Corban & Blair’s retail resilience

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