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Meet TLC for Kids, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Social Capitalist Category]
Every day, thousands of children in Australian hospitals undergo scary procedures. TLC for Kids acts as a relief agency to give these kids immediate attention. Distraction, to them, is a noble goal.
Meet Jetts, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Global Growth Category]
In the push to make gyms more accessible and less inflexible, Jetts has leapt over expectations, replacing question marks with exclamation points. Open 24 hours? You betcha! Stuffy contracts and steep membership fees? Not at all!
Meet CQ Nurse, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [X-Factor Category]
CQ Nurse was borne out of the idea of filling deficits in remote, rural, and regional nursing facilities across Australia. Since its initial launch in 2002, the company has met with that goal and expanded into the areas of workplace health, immunisation, community, and in-home care. Other offerings from CQ Nurse include online education, both free and paid, aimed at community and workplace wellness.
Meet Yellowfin, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Winner [Global Growth Category]
Yellowfin's innovation is a single integrated platform that brings all the tools of business intelligence into one place. And Yellowfin is making a splash well beyond Australian shores, counting a partnership network of more than 150 organisations in over 40 countries.
Meet The Messenger Group, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Micro Business Category]
The Messenger Group was started in 2001 by (drum roll please!) Lisa Messenger. The fatefully named CEO had decided to write a book and donate the proceeds. Realising a shortcoming in the Australian publishing offerings, Messenger found a way to fuse corporate sponsorship and publishing, ultimately getting her book funded.
Meet STREAT, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Social Capitalist Category]
A hybrid charity/business, STREAT is a cafe that recruits, by its own admission, the most unemployable people in the labour pool: homeless youth. Many are kids from broken homes, who have fled domestic abuse, or recovering from (or still struggling with) drug addiction.
Meet Nimble, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Online Business Category]
Nimble lending is a fresh, convenient way for Australians to borrow money whenever they find themselves in a jam. Started in 2005 by Sean Teahan and Greg Ellis, Nimble lets borrowers receive loans of up to $600 via a fast approval process online. Loans are paid within an hour of applying and run for 45 days. According to the company, Nimble is the fastest service of its kind in Australia.
Meet Vinomofo, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Online Business Categrory]
Vinomofo has an ambitious mission: to create a new generation of wine consumers far removed from the effete, bourgeois, oloroso –sipping Frasier Cranes with whom the pastime has long been associated. Since its initial launch in 2007, Vinomofo has endeavoured to bring people and wine together as a source of good wines and engaging customer service practices.
Meet Fillim.com, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Innovation Category]
Fillim is an on-demand video-streaming service for independent filmmakers and film lovers. If you're a wannabe auteur, it only takes a few minutes to upload your film and distribute it, free of charge. Meanwhile, audiences have access to film festivals around the world.
Meet Bay & Fyfe, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Micro Business Category]
Awesomely Australian are the words that spring to mind when it comes to qualify the coolness of Bay & Fyfe. The company takes the artwork of Aussie artist Daimon Downey and applies it to lush silk scarves. The result? An artistic statement to wear round your neck that is basically an Australian exclusive. Cool points? Cha-ching!
Meet Doin Time, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Social Capitalist Category]
Since 2007, Doin Time has been a portal between the "real" world and one that gets easily tucked away. The company manufactures and embroiders T-shirts, polos and shorts -- employing inmates within the confines of a maximum security prison.
Meet StageBitz, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Winner [X-Factor Category]
StageBitz is a service that is changing the entertainment business for the good. In the past, prop masters (for example) always made their own lists of materials in inventory inside a desktop office application like Word, then emailed it to someone else working in Excel, and then printed it out and ticked each item off in pencil. Now, with StageBitz, users can put their entire inventory up in the cloud with photos to boot!
Meet Safe Sleep Space, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Micro Business Category]
Safe Sleep Space is company engaged in the noble cause of helping families get a good night's sleep – by helping babies sleep better. Since most parents will tell you that sleep can be a rarity up until one year of age, Safe Sleep Space is providing one heck of a service. (Believe me, I'm a father of two!)
Meet FirstGold Save in Gold, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [X-Factor Category]
FirstGold is a new savings initiative from Gold Company that is putting customers' financial futures back into their own hands. FirstGold is the smart way to get real about money, create good saving habits, all the while giving Gold Company's customers the flexibility and freedom they need. The service offers quick registration, easy savings choices, and round the clock access.
Australia’s most ‘remarkable’ companies go wild at the 7th annual Cool Company Awards
The Coolest Company accolade was awarded to app developer Budge for creating a way to make gaming meaningful. “When is losing fun? When charities win,” said Tuckerman.
Meet Pie Face, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Winner [Big Kahuna Category]
This isn't your grandfather's meat pie. Quick service upstart Pie Face is challenging perceptions of what the iconic comfort food can be: reinventing pies with fresh ingredients and flavours, and bringing them to the world.
Meet Tweaky, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Winner [Online Business Category]
Tweaky is a marketplace for website customization. The company will make a small tweak for SME websites for a small fee. Tweaks may range from installing a new company logo, adding an email subscription form, reducing the size of the footer, or embedding social media sharing links. If your company has already outsourced the design of your website, Tweaky is there to help you make those inevitable, subtle tweaks as needed.
Meet Flippa, Anthill 2012 Cool Company Award Finalist [Global Growth Category]
Flippa excels at being the vehicle for buying, auctioning and selling online real estate. The absent .au in its URL says it all: the web industry is the essence of global. Much of that global traffic, naturally, is American, and only a tiny portion actually Australian. Count on a few Aussies, then, to gloat over beating the Americans at their own game.
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