Awards

2025 Shoalhaven Business Awards in partnership with ActewAGL Celebrating 40 years of Shoalhaven Business

Celebrating 40 years of Shoalhaven Business

 
Employer of Choice – 20 employees & under 
 
Employer of Choice – 21 employees & over 
 
Outstanding Business Leader – 20 employees & under 
 
Outstanding Business Leader – 21 employees & over 
Heather Marciano – BCR Communities
Highly Commended: Erica Jones – Interchange Shoalhaven
 
Outstanding Young Business Leader 
Leonard White – Lone Fig Environmental
 
Outstanding Employee 
Jeremy Comas – Lone Fig Environmental
Highly Commended: Ritchie Butler – Bomaderry High School
 
Excellence in Innovation 
 
Excellence in Large Business 
 
Excellence in Small Business 
 
Excellence in Micro Business 
 
Outstanding New Business
 
Outstanding Community Organisation 
 
Outstanding Visitor Experience 
 
Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion 
 
Shoalhaven Food Network Award 
 
2025 Business of the Year 

Finalists

EMPLOYER OF CHOICE

Good Things Organic

CareSouth

South Coast Therapy & Support Group

Interchange Shoalhaven

Nursing Solutions Group

Activate Health & Movement

OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY ORGANISATION (sponsored by CareSouth)

Be Here Nowra

PCYC Shoalhaven

Keith Payne VC Veterans Benefit Group

Southern Cross Housing

BCR Communities

Community Bank South Coast

 OUTSTANDING VISITOR EXPERIENCE

Supercalla

Cupitt’s Estate

Bumpy Road Catering & Events

Wildwood

Where We Escape

EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION (sponsored by Nowra Ignite)

South Coast Therapy & Support Group

Nursing Solutions Group

Hannah’s Beauty Clinic & Japanese Head Spa

South Coast First Aid

OUTSTANDING EMPLOYEE

Richie Butler – Bomaderry High School

Tina Hopkins – Juggernaut Advisory

Jake Kelly – GJ Gardner Homes

Sophie Lymbery – Activate Health & Movement

Helen Simister – South Coast First Aid

Jill Scott – South Coast Therapy & Support Group

Deborah Tomarchio – Neck of the Woods Café

Kirsty Nesbitt – Encore Support Group

Jeremy Comas – Lone Fig

EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY & INCLUSION (sponsored by Hansa Sailing)

South Coast Therapy & Support Group

Activate Health & Movement

Southern Cross Housing

Stella Studioz

Bomaderry High School

Shoalhaven Food Network Award, recognising our amazing small hospitality businesses in the Shoalhaven.

The Valley Table

Two Brown Men

Penzo’s Pizza & Gelato Bar

Kohli’s

Leaf in Nowra

Neck of the Woods Café

Bella Pizza & Gelato Bar

OUTSTANDING NEW BUSINESS

Soul Skin & Laser

Yandolera Community Care

South Coast Kitchen Gardens

Blak Cede

Expressive Mind Therapy

Bella Pizza & Gelato Bar

EXCELLENCE IN MICRO BUSINESS (less than 5 employees, sponsored by 2ST/Power FM)

Supercalla

Nowra Fasteners

Where We Escape

The Valley Table

Innovisuals

Colour Capsule

Be You Ballroom

EXCELLENCE IN SMALL BUSINESS (5-20 employees, sponsored by ActewAGL)

Good Things Organic

South Coast Therapy & Support Group

Activate Health & Movement

South Coast First Aid

Burbank & Brown Lawyers & Conveyancing

Hannah’s Beauty Clinic

Shoalhaven Signs

Neck of the Woods

Juggernaut Advisory

EXCELLENCE IN LARGE BUSINESS (21+ employees, sponsored by Ex-Servos Group)

Bumpy Road Catering & Events

Encore Support Group

OUTSTANDING YOUNG BUSINESS LEADER (sponsored by McDonalds)

Ashleigh McGuire – Ripe Mentoring

Hannah Morley – Hannah’s Beauty Clinic

Emily & Brad Humphreys – Be You Ballroom

Leonard White – Lone Fig

Emily Turner – Soul Skin & Laser

Andrew Brkic – Shoalhaven Signs

OUTSTANDING BUSINESS LEADER (sponsored by Macey Insurance Brokers)

Ian Morris – Bomaderry High School

Erica Jones – Interchange Shoalhaven

Clare Carson – South Coast Therapy & Support Group

Kim McArthur – South Coast Brides

Sian Ludlow – Stella Studioz

Adam Gowen – CUC Southern Shoalhaven

Nathan Carson – South Coast Therapy Group

Heather Marciano – BCR Communities

Stefanie Bristoe – Encore Support Group

ALIGNED CATEGORIES

Outstanding Employee

Outstanding Young Business Leader

Outstanding Business Leader

Employer of Choice

Excellence in Innovation

Excellence in Sustainability

Outstanding Community Organisation

Outstanding New Business

Excellence in Micro Business (Less than 5 employees)

Excellence in Small Business (5 – 20 employees) 

Excellence in Large Business (21 or more employees)

Outstanding Visitor Experience

Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion

NON-ALIGNED CATEGORIES

Shoalhaven Artisan Excellence

Business of the Year

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