Growth Award

For businesses - new or established - achieving outstanding growth that contributes to the Australian economy and community.
Open to eligible small and medium-sized businesses across Australia.

Is this category right for your business?

This award recognises businesses with these characteristics:

  1. Strong growth performance

  2. Deliberate growth strategy

  3. Capability built for scale

  4. Clear growth story

If growth has been a clear focus for your business, and you can show how it was achieved and sustained, the Growth Award could be right for you.

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Additional eligibility for the Growth Award

In addition to the characteristics above, this category has specific eligibility requirements.

Where applicable, businesses must be able to demonstrate revenue growth of more than 15% for the current financial year.

Eligibility is confirmed as part of the Awards Hub process.

To make sure this category is right for your business, review the full eligibility requirements before entering.

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What judges look for

Judges want to understand how your business has grown, why it mattered to your business and the wider community, and how that growth can continue.

Growth ambition

Why growth was important and what success looked like for your business.

Strategy and actions

The key decisions and actions that drove your growth.

Evidence of results

Clear outcomes that show growth, using metrics, examples or trends.

How growth is sustained

How your business is set up to keep growing over time and continue making a positive contribution.