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Collecting the 2022 Smart50 Innovator Award is online pet-sitting platform Mad Paws. Sponsored by BlueRock.

This year’s Rising Star winner is Zero Co, an eco-friendly cleaning and body care brand that has an audacious mission to untrash the planet from single-use plastic. Sponsored by Aiven.

Our inaugural Smart50 Marketing Award winner is ethical skincare brand Botanicals by Luxe, a company driven by founder Bec Connolly’s expertise and passion for the industry.

Hero Packaging’s disruption of the traditional B2B packaging industry has earned the company the Smart50 Retail Champion Award.

This year’s Community Hero winner is none other than Code Like a Girl, founded by Ally Watson.

Higher State Co has taken the top gong in the new Smart50 Regional Award category, with the drinks company making a significant impact on the Geelong and Port Fairy communities in Victoria.

There’s no business more deserving of our Smart50 Sustainability Award than this year’s winner, River Stone Aquaculture Innovations.

It should come as little surprise that the first recipient of the new Smart50 People Power Award is hipages Group, the country’s largest online tradie marketplace. Sponsored by Employment Hero.

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