Profiles
Martin Halphen didn’t get to where he is overnight. Now servicing over 8,000 corporate customers, and doing some 23,000 deliveries a week, Martin has steadily persevered, and grown his fruit delivery business – Fruit Box – nationwide.
At a time when even major fashion labels are struggling, Sandradee Makejev has taken her burgeoning retail business – St Frock – to enviable heights, with turnover growing by 2400 per cent between February and December 2013.
Successful health food chain Sumo Salad will refurbish its stores across Australia over the next three years on the heels of the Tulla Group’s purchase of a 60 per cent stake in the business.
It began life as the brainchild of husband and wife team, Mike and Diane Morrell. Their product, the Genie ID now has the potential to help transform voting systems across the African continent and minimise electoral fraud.
Entering either the café or the gym markets is in itself a risk. Throw in the cutthroat eastern suburbs of Sydney, and you’ve got a powder keg of risk.
It was the thrill of creating something new that led Chris Guzowski to go into business for himself.
In Aussie health food circles, acai is as mainstream as bread or butter. More than 15,000 kilometres away, for families in the Amazon, acai berries are precisely how they make a crust.
This is a story ripe for a riveting Australian film or television mini-series.
Entering the local market at perhaps just the right time, Swedish cider brand Rekorderlig is well-known and recognisable for its sleek branding. Yet far from being the brainchild of a faceless corporation, it all started at a kitchen table 19 years ago.
Dynamic Business sat down with Maureen Houssein-Mustafa to reflect on her two decades of success in the cutthroat beauty industry.
As an Australian girl in Nepal for the first time eight years ago, Stephanie Woollard experienced the full gamut of emotions.
Visiting Sydney from Amsterdam, co-founder Eduard Zanen tells me in his pragmatic Dutch accent that Bugaboo is a stroller company, and they make strollers.
Like many Indigenous Australians, Jack Manning Bancroft had grown up hearing about and seeing Aboriginal disadvantage. The difference was, at just 19 years old; he set his sights on doing something about it.
After spending four years working in garment design at one of the world’s largest surf brands, Brisbane-based Megan Todd craved getting back to her fashion dreams of creating handmade designs.
Along with his business partner Charles Rolls, Tim Warrillow founded a new category of drink – the premium mixer – challenging the status quo of Schweppes, which dominates the market.
Nick Savaidis, owner and founder of Australian fashion and sportsgear label Etiko stands out as one of just two companies to achieve an A+ rating for the integrity of its supply chain.
As the owner of a successful publishing business, entrepreneur Colin Porter became sick of slow payers and non-payers impacting his cash flow, and decided to do something about it.
The key to small business survival is doing what your enjoy and keeping your customers coming back.
A former high school dropout, it was during his brief stint as a real estate agent that Johnny Carter realised that working for a boss wasn’t for him.
For Melbourne-based entrepreneur Jonathan Hill, attending a backyard barbeque proved to be the start of a lucrative business venture.
