Business

BEST OF THE BEST SERVE UP A TREAT

The 2022 Gold Plate Awards were held at the Darwin Festival’s Sunset Stage in August with 500 people enjoying the very best in NT hospitality – with a bit of festival fun thrown in. The awards were the biggest in their 17-year history with more than 330 nominations received from 70 hospitality businesses throughout the Territory. New...

Business

LIFE’S SWEET FOR ZIPPRINT

Highly-regarded printing and graphic design company Zipprint has moved to a sparkling new HQ in Darwin. The business fitted out a 700 square metre building in Sweet Street, Winnellie, after outgrowing the old premises on the Stuart Highway. Mark Teakle, who is celebrating his 10th anniversary as the owner, says the new ground-level home...

Issue 37

OBM IS BACK!

October Business Month (OBM) is back bigger and better with an exciting mix of high profile keynote speakers designed to inspire Territory businesses. OBM has been supporting the Territory’s small business community for close to 3 decades and it is now in its 29th year. Five keynote speakers will attend this year’s OBM: Dr Richard...

Business

NATION SALUTES BARRA PIONEERS

The husband-and- wife team of Bob Richards and Julii Tyson began Humpty Doo Barramundi against extraordinary odds. They knew nothing about aquaculture when they bought into the struggling operation on the banks of the tidal Adelaide River. There was no running water nor all-weather road access. Much of the workforce was volunteering family...

Business

GO ON, SPOIL YOURSELF

Everybody deserves to be pampered now and again, especially after a couple of tough years. And Mindil Beach Casino Resort in Darwin is now offering the ultimate in spoiling yourself. The Lagoon Day Spa reopened at the casino in late August. Resort General Manager Avril Baynes says: “We’re thrilled to have the Lagoon Day Spa open once...

Business

CROSS SOLUTIONS: A 30-YEAR SUCCESS STORY

The Northern Territory’s largest surveying company is celebrating 30 years in business. Cross Solutions was established in Nhulunbuy with just one surveyor, Graeme Cross, who along with his brother Rob, has worked tirelessly through the good times and the bad to build a thriving business that today employs more than 60 people across four...

Business

GREAT LEAP FORWARD

Indigenous people have been fishing and gathering seafood along the Northern Territory’s vast coast for more than 50,000 years. Now they are poised to become major players in the commercial industries. The Aboriginal Sea Company was set up by the Northern, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa land councils after several years of consultation with...

Business

STATE OF OUR INNOVATION NATION: 2022 AND BEYOND

The Northern Territory provides investors and international innovators one of the most commercially exciting jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region. In the past six years, the Northern Territory has quietly developed the foundations of a vibrant innovation ecosystem. A highlights reel would show you companies such as SPEE3D creating new...

Business

SITZLER SHARES SUCCESS

Award-winning construction company Sitzler has again demonstrated its key role in the economy of Northern Australia by awarding more than $100 million worth of work packages to subcontractors in the past four months. Most of the work went to local businesses. General Manager Anthony Carbone says Sitzler awards subcontracts to Northern...

NEC Business

NEC SHARES ITS GOOD FORTUNE

The company that has again been awarded the Northern Territory Government’s major IT services contract has an unmatched reputation for world-class work.  But there is much more to NEC than that – it is also constantly proving itself to be an excellent corporate citizen by using a suite of NT-based subcontractors and training...

RAPIDCLEAN NT Business

RAPIDCLEAN GROWS WITH THE TERRITORY

An Aboriginal-owned company is so confident of its future and the Territory’s economic prospects that it has built a fit-for-purpose warehouse, office and showroom in Darwin’s leading business hub.  RapidClean NT, which is wholly owned by Ironbark Aboriginal Corporation, will soon move from rented premises in Winnellie to the new 1200...

BTC CONSTRUCTIONS Business

BTC BUILT A REPUTATION ON QUALITY BUILDING

Although based in Darwin, BTC Constructions’ work spreads far and wide around the Territory and across Northern Australia.  “Our professional teams have worked in remote communities, mine sites, defence bases. Plus, on city multi-storey buildings, hotel and office refurbishments, residential builds and renovations, public housing and...