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SUPREME AWARD

The Supreme Award will be presented to an overall winner that has stood out across all the categories. The winner will have demonstrated commercial success and outlined benefits across multiple facets including, job creation, innovation, service excellence, social responsibility, adaptation, resilience and has created a thriving community for the future by building skills to sustainably drive growth and social cohesion.

GENERAL AWARD CATEGORIES

The General Awards recognize businesses who demonstrated excellence in building sustainable international growth. All businesses must enter one of the general category awards based on their latest total annual revenue from 2021 to 2023.

PREMIER SMALL BUSINESS OPERATING INTERNATIONALLY AWARD

The Premier Small Business Award category will recognize a company operating locally or internationally with sales of less than FJ$1million. The award will be presented to a company that immerged newly into the market and had strongly developed their products and services while managing to thrive due to their uniqueness and ability to penetrate the international markets through exports.

PREMIER MEDIUM BUSINESS OPERATING INTERNATIONALLY AWARD

The Premier Medium Business Award category will recognize a company operating locally and internationally with sales between FJ$1million to FJ$5million. The award will be presented to an organization that has developed and demonstrated significant growth through creativity and developed uniqueness in quality, presentation and repertoire of the introduction of products and services to market including exports.

PREMIER LARGE BUSINESS OPERATING INTERNATIONALLY AWARD

The Premier Large Business Award category will recognize a company operating locally or internationally with sales exceeding FJ$5million. The winner must have demonstrated a significant contribution towards the growth of the economy through export, a level of investment, and has an engaged workforce with an innovative business strategy and a clear vision to pave its way into the future.

SPECIAL CATEGORIES

Businesses can enter one or more special categories answering the specific special category questions.

AGRIBUSINESS INNOVATION AWARD

The Award seeks to recognize and reward excellence and leadership for agribusinesses that are demonstrating a future-oriented vision for the agri-food sector and its supporting services in Fiji. Drawing on the unique production potential of Fiji, the award is searching for ambition, creativity, and innovation. The vital ingredient is innovation and ambition which seeks to recognize those that are playing a defining role in moving Fiji’s agri-business forward within certain sectors and encompassing new technology, new products, new services, standards, innovation, marketing excellence and corporate social responsibility.

EXCELLENCE IN E-COMMERCE TRANSFORMATION AWARD

This category recognizes a business that has adopted and integrated digital commerce strategy, technology, and tolls and has transformed its business model, and culture to make its products accessible digitally both locally and internationally.

EXCELLENCE IN EMPLOYER AWARD

This award will recognize an employer who has taken care of their staff and who eventually takes care of the business by creating a workplace based on a set of values that has led to a committed, effective and motivated workforce. Given the mass migration of skilled labour from Fiji this initiative will highlight and motivate companies to combat staff retention while also enhancing their skills through various initiatives within the business. This award will highlight how a business has adapted, diversified, and contributed to the community, as well as survived a crisis and how they have supported their staff during this period (examples such as flexible working, virtual working, co-working, training).

EXCELLENCE IN FISHERIES AWARD

This category recognizes a business that has outstanding export results in the Fisheries sector through sustainable value-added success.

EXCELLENCE IN INNOVATION AWARD

Innovation is vital to a company's success in today's highly competitive business environment, especially as customers become more demanding. Businesses need an edge to survive and stand out. This category recognizes innovative products or services developed by introducing and inventing new ideas, workflows, methodologies, and strategies that increase productivity and generate greater output by way of growth and profitability.

EXCELLENCE IN OUTSOURCING AWARD

This category will recognize the outstanding performance of an organization in the outsourcing industry that has deployed strategic and innovative solutions to offer high-value services to its clients.

EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE AWARD

This category recognizes the highest level of service excellence which consistently demonstrates excellence in teamwork and collaboration with its customers and has proven its willingness to excel in its responsiveness to its customers with great competencies and earned respect in the community.

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR

This category is open to all business leaders and an executive who shows outstanding initiative, boldness, and imagination in the enterprise, sound management practices, and demonstrate sustainable growth combined with commercial success that is exceptional for the size of the business.
BEST SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE AWARD

This category is open to all businesses, whether it’s going carbon neutral, reducing plastic consumption or some other sustainable initiative, this award recognizes organizations that are putting the planet first.
EXCELLENCE IN FORESTRY AWARD

This category recognizes a business that has outstanding export results in the Forestry sector through sustainable value-added success.

EXCELLENCE IN YASANA (PROVINCIAL) ASPIRATION AWARD

The Excellence in Yasana Aspiration Award will recognize and empower a Provincial Company that has devised a sustainable strategy that elevated the company investment portfolio, and investment diversification which impacted the community in the economic and social development. This award category is only open to the Provincial Companies including Rotuma and Rabi.