Ethnic Business Awards

Ethnic Business Awards have stood as a triumph for diversity and a celebration of success of Australia. As one of the nation's longest running business awards, the Ethnic Business Awards champion the cultural diversity, ingenuity and success within Australia’s national business community, and symbolises the contribution of migrants to the social and economic evolution of Australia.

In a country where one in four citizens were born overseas, the Ethnic Business Awards honour our unique human fabric as the most multicultural nation on earth. Representing an assortment of cultural backgrounds and covering a broad range of industry sectors, the Ethnic Business Awards are the only initiative of its kind to recognise the migrant contribution.

History

For 20 years, the Ethnic Business Awards have stood as a triumph for diversity and a celebration of success. As one of Australia’s longest running business awards, the Awards were created by Founder Joseph Assaf in 1988 and were designed to recognise and reward the valuable and innovative contributions migrants have made to Australian business and the economy.

In its early days, the Ethnic Business Awards were hosted and exclusively sponsored by the National Australia Bank. As a result, for a number of years, the Awards were known as the National Australia Bank Ethnic Business Awards.

After a longstanding relationship with the National Australia Bank, which still stands today, sponsorship for the Ethnic Business Awards were opened up to other sponsors in 2002.

Since then, there has been a myriad of corporate sponsors such as Telstra, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Gulf Air and MBF along with government departments such as The Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources and Centrelink, who have all supported and recognised the Ethnic Business Awards as an avenue which acknowledges migrant success.

Normally, the Ethnic Business Awards are comprised of two core categories - the Small Business category and the Medium to Large Business category.

Over the years, other categories have been included to recognise various achievements across a broad spectrum. These have included:

• Business Migrant Awards;
• Ethnic Media Awards;
• The Arts; and
• Women in Business. In a recent address at a Gala Award ceremony, Founder Joseph Assaf said,

“Australia was built on migration; and the Ethnic Business Awards are a continuous reminder and celebration of this fact. They allow each of us to recognise the great and positive contributions of migrants to our country”.

Today, the Ethnic Business Awards continue to provide a unique and prestigious recognition of Australia’s migrants, who have followed their dreams and overcome hardship to accomplish well deserved success.

External links

* [http://www.ethnicbusinessawards.com www.ethnicbusinessawards.com ]