Established in 1995, Footwear Industries designs and manufactures industrial safety footwear under their premium brand, Steel Blue, and a budget brand called Howler. The products are made from high quality materials with shock absorbing properties. The Steel Blue safety shoe was recently commended by a UK industry testing body as the most comfortable safety shoe ever tested.

Albury's Descend Underwater Training Centre trains divers working in the irrigation, water supply, hydropower generation and offshore oil industries. The company has worked for the Australian Federal Police, the NSW Road Traffic Authority, the Tasmanian Fisheries Department and on the Sydney Airport Link Rail Tunnel. Its training packages are exported to New Zealand and Hong Kong.

Rural Directions is an agribusiness that offers consulting, grain marketing and research and development services. Staff include agronomists, business planners, farm management consultants, project managers and accountants. Projects range from business planning and coaching to feasibility studies, grain trading and assessing demonstration trials.

Micro Forte has been developing computer games for the past 17 years. It established the Academy of Interactive Entertainment - an education institution for computer game development. Micro Forte has worked with international computer game publishers such as Microsoft, THQ, Universal Interactive and Interplay. It is currently developing the world's first Massively Multiplayer Online Game on the Xbox for Microsoft.

TAS-Saff is Australia's first commercial saffron grower. The business has been cultivating saffron for the past 12 years and marketing it for the past nine years. The business now has a network of 30 saffron growers throughout Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. TAS-Saff is a family owned and operated business.