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It’s odd to think that just a few years ago, Sydney wasn’t known for its small bar culture. Pubs and large-scale venues reigned supreme – but thankfully, things have changed.

“It’s getting exciting,” says Douglas Barton. The youthful looking Mr Barton has good reason to be excited. His business, Elevate Education, has just won the 2014 NSW Telstra Business of the year. The business also took out the NSW small business category. Elevate Education operates across four countries and holds study skills seminars attended by […]

It’s an ‘it’ product in certain circles, and just like any other type of beverage, there’s the good, the bad, and the just plain cheap n’ nasty.

It’s the quintessential party scene in countless American movies since the 1990s: exuberant youths sprawling over a house in the burbs, sipping mystery liquids from red tumbler cups.

Jason T Smith wasn’t planning to go into business for himself. Instead, he aspired to become a “medical missionary” and work in the developed world helping those less fortunate than himself.

If using entirely plant-based ingredients in his products means Malcolm Rands is labelled a hippie, then that’s a label he’s ok with.

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.