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Issue No. 7 - October/November 2002
SA's Business Talent Honoured in Global Awards Program
Six South Australian entrepreneurs have been recognised for their vision, determination and hard work as part of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® awards held for the first time in Adelaide last month.
Ernst & Young Managing Partner, Adelaide, Tony Smith presided over an immaculately staged, black tie event which assembled many of South Australia’s business elite. Evening compere Ian Leslie’s laid emphasis on celebrating entrepreneurialism in his interviews of the winners (and contenders), that set small firms on par with their heavyweight peers.
A panel of independent regional judges comprising leading figures from the business and academic communities selected the winners. The judging criteria included growth in turnover, profit and employee numbers, together with such factors as degree of innovation, development of creative and ingenious production, marketing and selling techniques and extent of expansion into national and international markets.
Greg Siegele is co-founder and CEO of Ratbag Pty Ltd, considered by many as Australia’s most successful video game developer. Ratbag is now recognised as the premier racing game developer in the United States market, and was awarded ‘Racing Game of the Year’ for each of the four games it has released. Ratbag’s games have sold over a million copies worldwide in more than 30,000 stores. Greg also received the Young Entrepreneur award.
Malcolm May is the driver behind Balco, formed in 1990 to develop opportunities for the rural community of Balaklava. Malcolm is a third generation Balaklava farmer whose vision and skill at finding solutions has enabled Balco to build up reliable product processing facilities and an overseas client base. The company began exporting hay to Japan, and in 2002 turnover is expected to exceed $30 million. Malcolm received the Services including Financial, Business and Property award.
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