The Prime Minister Hon John Key will present at the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards on 28 May in Auckland at a black-tie gala dinner attended by 600 business leaders.
Finalists are spread throughout New Zealand, including jericho who are delighted to be selected as Finalist for the BDO Spicers Business under $5M turnover One to Many Offering. jericho will attend the Awards dinner with 20 key staff and clients. jericho, a leading provider of marketing solutions and developer of SmartMail email marketing software.
Jericho provides email services to government, business to business, and business to consumer organisations that include Ezibuy, Loyalty NZ’s FlyBuys, and Telecom New Zealand.
Jericho Marketing Director Roanne Parker says they have entered the awards because as a growth company they like to continually benchmark against other companies. jericho has experienced 20-40% growth over each of the last six years and says the awards process allows them to be more introspective about how they operate and the services they are providing. “With attractive and profitable online communications for over 600 customer organisations to manage, we have a great responsibility, and business support is very important to us - it's our business,” Roanne Parker says.
“Our small and medium businesses play a critical part in our economy, the Prime Minister told Bizzone managing director Sarah Trotman, organiser of the awards. “They provide Kiwis with the essential goods and services they need. They help drive innovation across our economy. And they can become – with good leadership and support – our large businesses of tomorrow.
In these challenging economic times he said it’s important that we do what we can to help small businesses succeed. “That’s why the Government has introduced a Small Business Relief Package aimed at reducing red tape and making it less expensive for small and medium businesses to manage their cash flows and pay taxes,” he says. “It’s also important to acknowledge and celebrate the organisations and individuals who help our small businesses maximise their potential. I’m looking forward to presenting at the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards on 28 May. I hope to see you there.”
The Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards are sponsored by Vero, BDO Spicers and National Business Review and are a key event during the annual Bizzone Business Expo, New Zealand's largest event for business.
Entries for this year’s Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards were stronger than ever says Bizzone managing director Sarah Trotman. “New Zealand businesses are being well supported by companies that are not buying into the doom and gloom mentality,” she says. “The evaluators were thoroughly impressed by the quality and higher number of entries – choosing winners this year will be extremely difficult.”
To see this year’s finalists visit the Bizzone website or to get tickets for the awards dinner call 0800 249 397