2011 Lord Mayor's Business Awards Winners!

WINNER 2011 AUSTRALIA TRADE COAST AWARD FOR BUSINESS GROWTH

Ludowici Limited

Founded in 1858 and listed on the ASX in 1911, Ludowici is one of Australia's longest established companies.

From its corporate operations in Brisbane, Ludowici manufactures mining equipment, spare parts and consumables for the Australian and global markets. The total number of employees globally is 1,169 which is a 52% increase since 2008. 270 of these employees are located in our local Brisbane operations. Our advantage is our people.

Ludowici relocated from NSW to Brisbane in 2007 which has proven to be a successful strategy, supporting the goal of expanding the Ludowici business through organic growth, acquisitions and expansion. The growth Ludowici has experienced since the relocation has had a flow on effect to our Brisbane and Queensland suppliers.

Highly Commended was also awarded in this category to –

Alliance Airlines Pty Ltd

Alliance Airlines is the only national provider of essential and tailored service to its resource clients – the safe and reliable transportation by air of their employees and contractors to and from remote locations.

With our fleet of 20 Fokker 100s/Fokker 70LRs jet aeroplanes and five Fokker 50s turbo props, based at Brisbane, Adelaide, Townsville, Cairns, Perth and Melbourne, we fly workers to some of the largest mining projects in Australia.

A significant proportion of Alliance's revenue is subject to long term and exclusive contracts.

Alliance also provides ad-hoc charter services to a broad range of Government and commercial organisations.

Alliance tailors its services to meet specific customer needs. Alliance aims to continue organic growth from its existing customer base, expanding its geographic reach and targeting new customers.

WINNER 2011 BRISBANE MARKETING AWARD FOR EMPLOYER OF CHOICE

Southern Cross Austereo Brisbane

Southern Cross Austereo is now the biggest and most diverse media brand in Australia. Its team exceeds 2000 employees, and reaches 95% of Australians. In Brisbane, Southern Cross Austereo is home to top rating stations B105 and Triple M and employs 82 permanent staff.

Over the past 12 months, 19,100 people applied for 191 advertised jobs with Southern Cross Austereo. In Brisbane more than 3500 people applied for 34 positions, and the station placed 17 intern students while fielding hundreds of requests. People want to work at Southern Cross Austereo Brisbane.

In June, for the second year in a row, Southern Cross Austereo was named in BRW's Top 50 Best Places to Work in Australia. This reputation is one the company is insanely proud of because, without people, Southern Cross Austereo has no voice.

WINNER 2011 ENERGEX AWARD FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS

Leighton Properties

Leighton Properties is one of Australia's leading property development companies with a development pipeline of over $5 billion and offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Established in 1972, it is a 100% owned subsidiary of Leighton Holdings, Australia's largest contracting and developing Group. The Company has extensive expertise in delivering complex projects in the mixed-use, commercial, industrial, retail, resort and residential sectors.

The Company has delivered more Green Star buildings than any other developer in Queensland. The Company's understanding of and commitment to environmental sustainability is reflected in its delivery of Queensland's first 5 Star Green Star – Office Design v2 and Office As Built v2 rated building and Queensland's first completed 6 Star Green Star – Office Design v2 rated building. The Company now boasts nine 9 Green Star certified buildings in its portfolio.

WINNER 2011 NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK AWARD FOR NEW INVESTMENT

NEXTDC

NEXTDC is enabling the cloud revolution, by delivering a national network of independent data centres that provide the geographical diversity, high availability, connectivity, and power efficiency required for organisations to successfully transition to cloud computing. NEXTDC's independent ecosystem provides customers more than just space, power, cooling and security. It streamlines ease of doing business and creates a completely flexible business operational model that customers have full control over. NEXTDC is the only ASX-listed large scale independent data centre operator with strategic footprint in all major growth markets in Australia.

WINNER 2011 NOVA 106.9 AWARD FOR BUSINESS CREATIVITY

Liquid Animation

Liquid Animation is an award winning animation and design studio. Combining traditional 2D artistry with 3D digital production, our studio works with some of the world's leading entertainment companies including Disney, Warner Brothers and Mattel.

Our work spans a broad range of production including TV series, TV commercials, music videos, mobile shorts, theatrical releases and the development of our own intellectual properties. Combining our animation skills with Liquid Interactive's strong digital and design capabilities, we also offer the production of websites, apps, online games, microsites, e-learning content and augmented reality projects. We take a holistic approach to production and each piece of our work is crafted from start to finish by our team of talented artists.

WINNER 2011 GHD AWARD FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION

Murphy Pipe & Civil Constructions Pty Ltd

Murphy Pipe and Civil is an Australian civil construction company delivering large-scale infrastructure projects for the gas, water and mining industries.

The Brisbane-based company has a 450-strong skilled workforce currently installing coal seam gas pipelines throughout Queensland's Surat Basin and constructing other large-scale steel pipelines throughout Western Australia.

The company has grown rapidly thanks to its committed focus on introducing industry changing innovations, particularly its specialised pipeline ploughs that can install HDPE pipelines in a faster, safer and greener manner, compared to conventional pipeline installation methods. In a few short years the company has earned a solid reputation within the pipeline industry and has solid plans for continued growth through its ongoing commitment to outstanding service, safety, quality and productivity.

WINNER 2011 BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL AWARD FOR CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP

Southern Cross Austereo Brisbane

Highly Commended was also awarded in this category to –

Brisbane Broncos Limited

Founded in 1987 the Brisbane Broncos are a professional rugby league football team based in Brisbane. Central to our on-field activities are our off-field activities including generating and retaining club members, corporate partners and sponsors. But most important is our role as a representative of the Brisbane Community.

The Broncos in the Community program was developed in 2009 to encompass all of our community programs and to ensure that as a Club we are developing new initiatives to fulfil needs within our community. There are a number of programs that fall under Broncos in the community including charity programs, a ticketing program, weekly community visits including a school literacy program, and merchandise donation.

Through these programs, the club has donated over $128,000 and an additional $100,000 worth of merchandise to charities and community organisations, and has seen the playing group spend over 2,000 hours participating in community work.

WINNER 2011 NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK AWARD FOR YOUNG BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR

Ben Shipley, Managing Director of Comscentre

Ben studied at Griffith University and worked in the IT sector before establishing Comscentre in 2002 in his garage in Rozeville, Sydney. He recognised a market opportunity for the provision of unified communications solutions for small to medium businesses. These organisations were increasingly finding themselves weighed down by the management and cost of maintaining multiple technology providers. The primary objective of Comscentre was to remove the complexity of unified communications to reduce costs and increase productivity.

Ben recognised that smaller organisations were at a disadvantage to larger enterprises which could afford the latest in state of the art telephony solutions and set about establishing a business model which would grant smaller organisations the same access to the latest technologies through a return on investment approach.

In 2004 he re-located Comscentre to Brisbane to better service the foundation client, Flight Centre. It is the second business Ben has established in his career, previously forming a company called eGlobal which was listed on the ASX during the dot com boom period.

WINNER 2011 CHANNEL 7 BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR

Patrick Largier, CEO and Managing Director of Ludowici Limited

Patrick joined Ludowici as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director in 2007. Under Patrick’s leadership Ludowici has achieved significant global expansion and revenue growth as he has driven the company’s vision to build a leading global business servicing the mineral processing industry using innovation to develop technology that provides tangible benefits for our customers.

Patrick completed the Harvard Advanced Management Program in Boston in 2004 and graduated from the University of Cape Town with honours in a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering. Patrick is a member of the CEO Institute based in Brisbane

Prior to joining Ludowici, Patrick spent nearly fifteen years with Orica/ICI Australia in Melbourne. His earlier career included 10 years with the Shell group of companies in both South Africa and London.

WINNER 2011 OPTUS PLATINUM AWARD

Liquid Animation

Liquid Animation is an award winning animation and design studio. Combining traditional 2D artistry with 3D digital production, our studio works with some of the world’s leading entertainment companies including Disney, Warner Brothers and Mattel.

Our work spans a broad range of production including TV series, TV commercials, music videos, mobile shorts, theatrical releases and the development of our own intellectual properties. Combining our animation skills with Liquid Interactive’s strong digital and design capabilities, we also offer the production of websites, apps, online games, microsites, e-learning content and augmented reality projects. We take a holistic approach to production and each piece of our work is crafted from start to finish by our team of talented artists.