In its 10th year, the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards hosted a gala evening in the Conrad Jupiter’s Ballroom. Presented to B-free was the Emerging Business Award sponsored by AusIndustry.

“We hope the AusIndustry Emerging Business Award will encourage broader business growth and development on the Gold Coast,” Mr Cousins said.

“We’re out to recognise and promote a new generation of business achievers – something that’s particularly relevant for this region boasting the high new venture creation rate that it does,” he said.

The AusIndustry Emerging Business Award is open to businesses that undertake and maintain the majority of its activities, employees and assets on the Gold Coast, have been in operation for a minimum of eighteen months, and maximum of five years.