2025 State Finalists - Promoting Sustainability

Beysis is a lifestyle brand redefining how people interact with their everyday essentials. Its focus includes premium accessories including water bottles, beauty tools, and travel cases that customers can make their own through the power of personalisation.

Chief Nutrition is a healthy snacking and supplement brand. With a core mission to help people stop eating junk, its delicious range focuses on clean ingredients, high protein and low sugar.

Pasta'bah by Woodland Valley Farm is a vertically integrated regenerative food business based in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Founded in 2019 by Fabian Fabbro and Jodie Viccars, it grows, produces, and delivers premium, climate positive foods from pasture-raised eggs and beef to artisan pasta, sauces, desserts, and ready-to-eat meals.

Founded by Joanne Howarth, Planet Protector manufacturers and distributes high performing insulated packaging solutions made from 100% natural waste wool. Using an advanced manufacturing facility, it transforms wool, textiles, and reclaimed materials into high-performance, sustainable solutions, giving waste a new life.

WASHBOX is redefining what it means to be clean on a construction site. By providing its closed-loop wash station for trade tools, it eliminates harmful liquid waste pollution while saving water, reducing risk, and helping the construction sector meet global sustainability standards.

NAKIE is a sustainable outdoor gear company committed to making high-quality, environmentally conscious products that inspire people to get outside and connect with nature. From hammocks and sand free beach towels to picnic blankets and back packs, every NAKIE product is crafted from recycled plastic bottles and designed to last.

Project PARGO makes premium insulated drinkware that funds clean water projects for people in need. Every PARGO sold helps provide long-term access to safe, clean drinking water in remote and rural communities around the world.

Stacked Farm designs, builds, and operates advanced farming facilities that produce premium-quality leafy greens and herbs grown indoors without soil, sunlight, pesticides, or chemicals. Through proprietary automation, robotics, and AI, it delivers consistent, high yield produce year-round that is untouched by human hands from seed to pack.

Suitcase Records is a Brisbane-based independent vinyl pressing plant that has pressed vinyl for some of the biggest names in Australian music including Paul Kelly, Lime Cordiale and Midnight Oil and hundreds of smaller independent musicians.

MyEnergy Engineering is a South Australian-based company specialising in off-grid and remote power systems. Established in 2010, the business designs, assembles, and installs complete standalone power solutions using solar, lithium battery storage, and backup generators.

Teakle Wines is a premium wine, hospitality, and tourism business located in Port Lincoln on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Operating across 12 hectares of vineyard, an architecturally designed cellar door, a fine dining restaurant (The Line & Label), and multiple outdoor event spaces, it has become a must visit destination.

Untangled Hairstylists is a boutique salon in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs, specialising in curly and textured hair. With a strong focus on education, empowerment, and sustainability, the salon delivers personalised services designed to help clients embrace their natural hair with confidence.

Water Stewardship Asia Pacific is a not-for-profit organisation that empowers businesses, governments, and communities to become responsible stewards of water. Headquartered in Australia, Water Stewardship Asia Pacific works across the Asia Pacific region to demonstrate that water is the foundation of healthy communities, thriving economies, and resilient ecosystems.

Enginuity Power Solutions is an electrical engineering consultancy that helps large-scale energy users reduce electricity consumption, and lower carbon emissions through data-driven, tailored solutions. The business consults, designs and delivers energy optimisation strategies across commercial and industrial sectors nationwide.

Bippi Foods is a condiment company creating authentic Italian-style products that bring people together through flavour, tradition and connection. Founded by Benjamin Circosta, Bippi was inspired by the home cooked recipes of his Nonna Emilia, who migrated from Calabria to Mildura in 1955.

BLUE SKY SERVICES (VIC) takes care of cleaning and property services, so clients can focus on their businesses. The staff are experts in cleaning, hygiene and waste services, and treat every contract like it’s their only contract.

Bridgeford Group is an integrated zero emissions company dedicated to partnering with organisations on their journey to achieve net zero. Established to deliver practical, engineering-led decarbonisation solutions, Bridgeford Group offers end-to-end services spanning energy efficiency, electrification, asset optimisation, and sustainable building design.

Grounded Goods is a manufacturing business providing circular, scalable, and beautifully designed reusable cups and containers to help organisations eliminate single-use waste. Established in 2017, Grounded Goods partners with offices, universities, councils, and hospitality businesses to design and implement tailored reuse systems, including branded products, end-to-end logistics, and in-house recycling.

Porous Lane is transforming how cities manage waste, stormwater, and urban infrastructure through innovative, locally made permeable pavement. The company’s mission is to convert a growing waste crisis of end-of-life tyres into resilient infrastructure that supports circular economy goals, water-sensitive urban design, and climate adaptation.

Eight Acres Permaculture and its online community platform The Resilience Village are a unique and impactful enterprise dedicated to equipping Australians with vital skills for resilient and regenerative living. With a mission to empower individuals and communities to navigate an uncertain future by fostering self-sufficiency, practical knowledge, and authentic connection.

Fast Fit 20 is a boutique fitness studio in Karratha, Western Australia, delivering full body electro muscle stimulation training. Clients are fitted into a EMS suit that sends low frequency electrical impulses to the body, aimed at delivering a full body workout with minimal joint impact and no heavy weights.

Li-ion Energy is a battery reuse and engineering company tackling the growing challenge of lithium battery waste. Co-founded by Sarai Ball and Justin Manton, the company began in a garage and has grown into a specialised operation focused on lithium battery pack reconditioning, technical dismantling, and clean energy system design.

Revolution E Bikes designs, sells and services high quality own-brand electric bikes tailored to Australian conditions. As a person with a disability, Founder Glenn Meyer established Revolution E Bikes on the belief that transport should not only be eco-conscious, but also inclusive and community building.

Scott Aussie Tourism Marketing (SATM) is a boutique marketing agency with a focus on fuelling growth for businesses within the tourism and hospitality industry. SATM provides a comprehensive suite of strategic services from brand development and website design to digital advertising and social media management.