VIC - Telstra Australian Business Awards

With two randomised control trials and a 15 year track record, The COACH Program is a proven way to improve risk factor status and reduce hospital utilisation for sufferers of cardiovascular disease. The company’s unique business model enables organisations to deliver the program using their own staff, substantially reducing the costs of delivery and allowing The COACH Program to expand its services much more quickly and widely. The program is designed to be easily integrated into any existing health care system. It is delivered over the telephone and supported by personalised written information enabling virtually 100 percent of chronic disease survivors to be targeted. The COACH Program has been adopted as standard care in the Australian public health system and through private health funds both in Australia and the Netherlands with plans to expand into the USA.

Through its revolutionary website, LIVE IN australia.com has turned the immigration market on its head and in so doing has already assisted more than 90,000 foreign citizens and their loved ones realise a dream of migrating to Australia. Launched in 2001, LIVE IN australia.com is a multi-award winning company that now boasts over 1.5 million registered clients in nearly 230 countries. As the first of its kind to provide an affordable, reputable and convenient online alternative to the traditional and costly immigration services, LIVE IN australia.com has established itself as the leader in its field. LIVE IN australia.com has successfully established a global footprint and is now poised to branch out further in key locations nationally and internationally over the coming years.

Started in 2004 by three friends in a spare bedroom, Revolution IT is now Australia’s leading provider of software testing and application quality management solutions. Revolution IT assists organisations by providing the people, process and tools to plan, test and successfully deliver IT projects on time and on budget. What the founders realised early on in the business was that it was not the testing of the software that mattered to the clients, but the resulting quality of their applications and that these applications delivered their desired business objectives. As a result, Revolution IT broadened its offering to focus on application quality management, from the point of a business deciding they have a need for an application through the development and then operation of that application. The company now has over 185 staff located in offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra.

With two randomised control trials and a 15 year track record, The COACH Program is a proven way to improve risk factor status and reduce hospital utilisation for sufferers of cardiovascular disease. The company’s unique business model enables organisations to deliver the program using their own staff, substantially reducing the costs of delivery and allowing The COACH Program to expand its services much more quickly and widely. The program is designed to be easily integrated into any existing health care system. It is delivered over the telephone and supported by personalised written information enabling virtually 100 percent of chronic disease survivors to be targeted. The COACH Program has been adopted as standard care in the Australian public health system and through private health funds both in Australia and the Netherlands with plans to expand into the USA.

With over 60 years experience in red meat retail, wholesale and abattoir operations, this Victorian business is leading the way in certified organic and ethnically-sensitive meat production. Radfords’ Certified Organic facilities enable conventional producers to convert to organic practices, thereby removing chemicals and residual pollutants from stock feed and stimulating rehabilitation of grazing land. In the early 1980s Radfords identified and successfully developed a number of niche markets otherwise overlooked by many processors. Supply of ‘Greek Lambs’ has extended to similarly culturally driven requirements from other Mediterranean and South East Asian communities. Supply to meet these ethnic or religious observances typically includes offal products that would otherwise be relegated to commodity ingredient markets. Radfords is also leading the way in tackling long-term environmental issues in the industry, recently undertaking an industry-first project to recycle 95 percent of waste water to potable quality with potential industry-wide annual water savings of over 13 gigalitres.