Posts tagged "smart50"

Gym franchise Plus Fitness has undergone massive growth in the past three years. The New South Wales-based franchisor came in at number eight in last year’s Smart 50 after it more than doubled its revenue in 12 months.

MBS Services Australia, which specialises in providing professional services for local government throughout Victoria, was the brain-child of Terry Baker and Wayne Wilkie.

Since Now Digital appeared in SmartCompany’s Business Start Up Awards in 2009, the digital marketing agency has picked up a raft of impressive clients.

The founder of Sydney-based fixed-interest broker Curve Securities, Andrew Murray, says launching the business during the global financial crisis actually created the company’s point of difference in the industry.

Brisbane-based shopfitting company Tu Projects has had an impressive growth spurt in the last few years, taking on some major clients and almost tripling its revenue to more than $32 million.

Brisbane’s property market has been volatile in the past few years, but Calibre Real Estate is proving good agents can grow in any market.

There’s a good reason video game developer Daniel Visser says he would like to run into the high school career adviser who told him to learn a trade and stay away from video games.

Adelaide-based solar company Suntrix experienced extraordinary growth in its first year of operation – ballooning from a business with a $250,000 turnover to become a $7.3 million company. “It was a crazy time,” says Jenny Paradiso who founded the business with husband David Hille while they still had two small children at home.

Sydney-based cleaning company Clean Business Services has had an extraordinary past few years. The business, which was established in 1985 after the merger of three cleaning companies, has nearly tripled its revenue in three years – jumping from more than $1 million in 2011-12, to $2 million in 2012-13 and posting more than $3 million for the last financial year.

Since appearing at number 38 in last year’s Smart 50, Melbourne-based labour hire company Amrick has nearly doubled its revenue and bulked up its internal resources, taking on at least 15 more staff.

Richard Haby was at a friend’s barbecue when he overheard someone complaining about the cost and quality of trampoline parts in Australia.

Klyp founders Chris Byrnes and David Perkins met at university in 2002, when they were encouraged by their professors to commercialise a CD-ROM project they’d been working on.