Business of the Year: CFM Air Conditioning 

Like many other businesses in their industry, CFM Air Conditioning’s biggest challenge during this past 12 months was to ensure that they had enough staff to provide a high-quality of service to their clients. And to achieve this, they prioritised employing more field staff through unique methods. 

Find out more about CFM Air Conditioning on our Meet the Finalists page or at the CFM Air Conditioning website. 

Innovation category: Coolon LED Lighting

With the weighty vision of reviving and improve Australia’s advanced manufacturing capabilities, it’s no surprise that Coolon embraced the challenges thrown by the pandemic and quintuple’d down with five times the number of projects to emerge brighter than ever before.

They attribute this growth to their renewed investment into research and development which recently helped them to launch a new generation of smart lights which mesh together to form wireless networks, enabling effortless digitisation of even the most hostile industrial sites.

Find out more about Coolon LED Lighting on our Meet the Finalists page or at the Coolon LED Lighting website. 

Employment category: CFM Air Conditioning

“As winners of both the Business of the Year award and the Employmet category, CFM Air Conditioning certainly impressed the jugdes with their unique and successful solutions to staffing shortages. They utilised their Diversity Policy to attract new staff of all backgrounds, engaged business mentors and employed more apprentices to future-proof their business, while providing opportunities for all of their staff.

Alongside these methods, they also regularly work to improve their digital presence on both their website and social media platforms, which helps them to showcase their diverse and inclusive workplace, and often celebrate the achievements of their staff. They’re known to also enter those same staff into industry specific awards.

Find out more about CFM Air Conditioning on our Meet the Finalists page or at the CFM Air Conditioning website.

Sustainability Category: Beaconsfield Dental

Beaconsfield Dental embody sustainability in an incredibly inspiring way, beginning with their building’s smart design features and environmentally minded internal processes, all the way through to their routine sustainability advocacy.

Onsite, their smartly designed building includes 144 solar panels which have generated over 226 megawatts of electricity in 8.5 years, a large 17,000 litre rainwater tank which supplies the toilets and garden, double glazed windows, solar hot water, an electric car charger, energy saving lighting and an indigenous garden with edible plants.

Find out more about Beaconsfield Dental on our Meet the Finalists page or at the Beaconsfield Dental website. 

Daniel Muir, Amstel Club 

Daniel Muir’s dedication to Amstel Club has seen its growth as a business innovator and leader in best practice, moving through the pandemic to achieve the club’s goal of becoming the number one hospitality venue in Cranbourne. 

Despite being an incredibly tumultuous period for hospitality venues as staff turnover rocketed across the industry, under Daniel’s leadership, the club was able to retain all of its staff members, recruit even more and improve their overall diversity in the process.

Find out more about Daniel Muir and Amstel Club on our Meet the Finalists page or at the Amstel Club website.