Winners Learn City's Future

Written on the 14 March 2025 by Gold Coast PR Company Consulting Hall

WINNERS of the 2024 Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards gathered to hear the inaugural chairman of Invest Gold Coast Will Hodgman’s vision for how the city’s economic boom will continue.

Mr Hodgman, a former Premier of Tasmania and a former High Commissioner of Australia to Singapore, told the crowd he was excited about leading the new body, which was set up to drive the economic growth of the Gold Coast and facilitate major investments. 

The lunch, which was held specially for last year’s annual category winners of the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards, was hosted by KPMG Gold Coast senior partner Adam Twemlow, who serves as president of the Awards’ committee.

The crowd also heard from Peta Newton, a director of the 2024 Business of the Year SEE Group, who detailed how special winning the award was for her company and its employees.

Mr Twemlow said the private winners’ lunch had become a popular tradition for the awards over the past 14 years.

“On the night of the gala awards, there is a lot going on and a lot of excitement, so it’s difficult for the winner of the annual categories to touch base with each other,’’ he said.

“The winners’ lunch allows members to meet and congratulate fellow winners and gives a few members of the awards committee an opportunity to say congratulations as well.”

The 2025 awards are set to be launched later this month, with the entries for the 2025 May Awards being due at 5pm, on Thursday, May 1.

The awards, which are celebrating their 30^th year, aim to foster pride in the city’s business community and highlight its important as a business hub. Some of the city’s best-known companies can claim to have been winners.