Success stories

When best friends Nadia Tucker and Stevie Angel moved to Brisbane on the same day in 2011 and became neighbours, it was inevitable that they would go into business together.

In 2007, Canberra businessmen Shaun Moore and Bruce Power were well placed to identify a gap in the defence market.

It all started with four brothers, a love affair with fresh and authentic pasta, and a determination to succeed.

That was over 55 years ago.

Danielle Clayton was working on a surf charter boat in the Maldives in 2012 when her women’s surf leggings business Salt Gypsy came to life.

When is a biscuit not a biscuit? When it’s lavosh!

If you ask Karen Lebsanft, the co-founder and CEO of Kurrajong Kitchen, ”am I allowed to call it a biscuit?”, you will get a very terse reply -  “no you are not!”

Daphne Crowhurst knows paint. She also knows how to transform a stagnant family-run business into a successful franchise.

As a nine-year old, April Armstrong often destroyed gardens by ripping the stems and branches off plants and claiming it was for a business she was starting.

As a teenager Gus Fares would spend hours drawing the many buildings he loved before they were destroyed by bombings.