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...

JL PROPERTY NT Business

JIMMY HITS RIGHT NOTE IN WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Many business people don’t make the time to nurture interests outside of work.  They are too busy building their companies.  Not Jimmy Lay.  He has worked ferociously hard all his life to provide for his family – but has found time for outside interests.  Jimmy, who is one of the best-known and most...

ICN Business

MATCHMAKING MADE EASY

The agency that acts as “matchmaker” between Northern Territory business and lucrative contracts on major and medium-sized projects is working smarter and faster – statistic by statistic.  Industry Capability Network NT is using in-depth data analysis to not only evaluate its own performance but to make effective use of a vast bank...

INPEX Business

ASHLEY TAKES INPEX PATHWAY TO SUCCESS

Ashley Stephensen worked as a lab technician for more than a decade in the mining industry before securing a laboratory analyst position with INPEX in July 2021 as part of the Solid Pathways Program.  Ashley is born and bred in Darwin and his family are Woolwonga people from the Frances Creek area near Pine Creek.  He started his...

DITT Business

BOOST FOR EXPORTERS

Northern Territory businesses punch well above their weight in the highly-competitive export trade.  And a new grant program aims to help keep it that way.  The Northern Territory Government released the Global Trade Scheme program to help Territory businesses establish or expand their exporting capabilities.  The program...