This award celebrates innovations in product offer, outstanding customer service, employee care and sales and marketing initiatives.
Hero Packaging’s disruption of the traditional B2B packaging industry has earned the company the Smart50 Retail Champion Award.
Learn moreGourmet Basket is a premium online gourmet gifting company that helps people celebrate people, and connect with each other when they can’t be there themselves. They offer Australia’s largest gourmet hamper range with comprehensive customisation and personalisation service whereby customers can choose from more than 300 add-ons to enhance their gift to the recipients liking.
Hero Packaging was founded from a need in a previous business which sold personalised fashion accessories online, and with 80-100 orders shipped per day, mostly in plastic shipping mailers. The catalyst for starting Hero Packaging was seeing the founders’ two daughters surrounded by a mountain of plastic during the school holidays, as each order was being shipped in a plastic satchel, and would most likely end up in landfill. Today, the business produces home-compostable, zero-waste packaging products.
July is an Australian direct to consumer travel brand known for its luggage, travel bags and accessories. The business launched in 2019, survived COVID-19 and is now projected to hit $40 million by the end of 2022. As a challenger brand, July offers a better product and experience and a more accessible price point to its incumbents. Luggage with a lifetime warranty, and luggage for everyone.