Conference Sponsors

Conference Gold Sponsor: Pronto Software

Pronto Software is an Australian developer of award-winning business management and analytics solutions. Pronto Xi ERP software integrates accounting, operational and mobile features in a single system – optimising business processes and unlocking actionable insights. Over 1,700 organisations have leveraged Pronto Software’s industry experience and innovation to increase growth and revenue.

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Conference Silver Sponsor: bzTrack

bzTrack is a one-stop-shop that offers free invoicing and improves cashflow management. Whether you’re a small business, sole trader or larger organisation, bzTrack has been built for you.

We provide a different approach to collecting money owed in invoices – offering incentives for customers who pay early and not penalties for customers who pay late – as we like to say, carrots not sticks!

bzTrack works alongside Xero, synching all your bills and invoices in real-time. Great if you have a team who are out on jobs – be that a sales/ops/trade team. They can invoice on the go and know that the invoice will automatically be uploaded in Xero for their bookkeeper or accountant to reconcile – leaving them free to move onto their next job.
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Conference Silver Sponsor: Office for Small and Family Business

Hosted by the Department for Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS), the Office for Small and Family Business (OSFB) provides a single destination for support and advice – a resource for small and family businesses to access tailored services and advice to equip business with the information, support and resources required to grow.

Business advisory services offered by the OSFB include providing information on planning and starting a new business, running and growing an existing business, leaving a business and the provision of grants and support programs available from the South Australian Government.

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Principle Partners: Business Events Adelaide

Business Events Adelaide is committed to delivering with a personalised and tailored approach to attracting business events to Adelaide. We work assiduously at connecting you with our partners across Government, industry and academia; all of whom are working with us on the delivery of a post COVID healthy economic growth trajectory. Using such partners and our membership base, Business Events Adelaide brings together what we call “Team Adelaide”. Working for you would be the city’s most experienced business event specialists who have a reputation for ensuring consistently highly successful business events – events where organisers and delegates are profuse in their enthusiasm for the event’s management and the city itself, and where the event delivers a strong economic tail of business and research partnerships and collaborations.

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Printing Sponsor: Bowden

Bowden Print Group is one of South Australia’s leading print and marketing solution providers. The company embraces the latest technologies and innovations while maintaining the family values that formed the company foundation since 1935. 

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Conference Sponsor: AFSA

The Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) manage the application of bankruptcy laws and the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) within Australia.

The PPSR can offer your business excellent risk protection. When selling on retention of title terms or consignment, or hiring and leasing out goods, properly registering on the PPSR can help protect your security interest should your customers not pay or become insolvent.

Searching the PPSR lets you check whether the valuable goods you want to buy are free from existing financed debt and safe from possible repossession.

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Meeting Place Sponsor: Hyphen

Hyphen is a storytelling company. We help businesses and organisations celebrate milestones, telling their stories through film and installation, as well as bespoke coffee-table books produced under our publishing imprint, Bounce Books. Our stories dig deep. We love asking the questions that get to the heart of who you are, what you do, where you’ve come from, and where you’re heading. We are writers, editors, photographers, film-makers, designers and project managers. But above all, we are storytellers. 

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Meeting Place participant: Owner Manager Program

Australian Owner Manager runs unique development programs designed for the owners and managers in private and family businesses. Core programs include the Owner Manager Program (OMP) and the OM Leadership Program (OML). The programs help owners and managers develop their skills, capability and mindset in the context of their business and their world. Growing out of work completed at the International Centre of Entrepreneurship and the University of Queensland, these are not academic or theoretical courses, but intensive challenging development opportunities exclusive to business owners and senior managers in private and family companies.

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Women in Family Business Breakfast Table Sponsor: Gerard McCabe

Gerard McCabe is Adelaide’s award-winning premier fine diamond jeweller.

Celebrating over 35 years of industry experience, Gerard McCabe has a proud family heritage of jewellers. With our team of truly passionate experts, Gerard McCabe maintains a standard of excellence inspired by a passion for service, design, and exceptionally beautiful jewellery.

We specialise in wedding and engagement rings, fine diamond and antique jewellery, as well as unique one-off and bespoke designs. Our designs are crafted only to the highest possible standards – truly yours, and to be enjoyed for generations to come.

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Women in Family Business Breakfast Table Sponsor: Hood Sweeney

The engine room of the economy; Hood Sweeney understands the complex dynamics of family business and the personalities involved. The strength of communication between family members is often the difference between a successful business and one that struggles. The facilitation and understanding of each stakeholder’s needs is the core foundation for multi-generational success and family unity.

Our team of experts understands the unique challenges and opportunities presented by family businesses and can help you develop and implement strategies that work for your family and your business. Let us at Hood Sweeney help you build that legacy by providing the guidance and support you need to navigate the complex world of family business dynamics.

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Keynote Speaker Gift Sponsor: Adina Watches

Adina Watches has grown from one dedicated man to a team of sixteen, including Bob’s son Grant, building the craft of quality Australian watchmaking through the generations. This highly specialized team includes five watchmakers, a clockmaker and four apprentices. Each year Adina produces over 30,000 artisan watches from its Brisbane factory, available in over 300 retail outlets across Australia and New Zealand, online and via corporate contracts for service awards. Through quality craftsmanship and evolving design, Adina has made a history of specialising in limited release watch collections.
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Longest Lunch Gift Sponsor: 36 Short logo


Sponsor: Cup & Carry

Cup & Carry is the newest member of the Detmold Group and we make printed packaging easy, fun and fast! Our range includes printed carry bags, cups, tissue paper, food wraps, wine bags and cartons…printed and dispatched in 7 days!

Our print minimums start from as little as 250 Bags, 500 Cups and 1,000 Sheets.

All of our products are either recyclable, compostable or both and are printed locally in Brompton South Australia.

Ordering is fast and easy and our talented team of in-house graphic designers will bring your ideas to life.

Whether you’re a retail shop, food and beverage outlet, winery or a corporate…we have your printed packaging needs covered!

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Women in Family Business Breakfast Speaker Gift Sponsor: Gerard McCabe

Gerard McCabe is Adelaide’s award-winning premier fine diamond jeweller.

Celebrating over 35 years of industry experience, Gerard McCabe has a proud family heritage of jewellers. With our team of truly passionate experts, Gerard McCabe maintains a standard of excellence inspired by a passion for service, design, and exceptionally beautiful jewellery.

We specialise in wedding and engagement rings, fine diamond and antique jewellery, as well as unique one-off and bespoke designs. Our designs are crafted only to the highest possible standards – truly yours, and to be enjoyed for generations to come.

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Site Visit Sponsors: Haigh’s Chocolates

Haigh’s is the oldest family-owned chocolate maker in Australia. Today the company is run by the fourth generation of the Haigh’s family and employs over 650 people throughout their factory, administration, online and 22 retail stores located across Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.

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Site Visit Sponsors: Beerenberg

The Beerenberg Family Farm is a sixth-generation Australian-owned family farm located in Hahndorf, in the beautiful Adelaide Hills which has become an iconic Australian-made brand with over 100 employees and nearly 100 delicious products of delicious homemade Australian jams, chutneys, gourmet relishes, and sauces.

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Site Visit Sponsors: SA Mushrooms

Established in 1998, SA Mushrooms has grown to become the largest privately owned mushroom farm in South Australia. From small beginnings as a family-run farm, the business is today a primary supplier of mushrooms to major supermarkets, independent greengrocers and produce markets in SA, and nationwide. As well as the mushroom farm at Waterloo Corner the family’ business also includes the compost facility at Lower Light and wholesale store at SA Produce Market Pooraka.

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Site Visit Sponsors: Drake Supermarkets

In 1974, Roger Drake purchased his first supermarket; a store named Jack & Jill’s, which employed only four staff. Today, Drakes Supermarkets is the largest independent grocery retailer in Australia. With over 60 supermarkets across South Australia and Queensland, the family company now employs over 6,000 staff nationally.

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Site Visit Sponsors: Ahrens

Ahrens is a 120-year-old, fifth-generation, family-owned South Australian company, with 7 main divisions operating primarily in Australia, with operations in the US and Asia. Ahrens divisions include Construction, Engineering, Steel Fabrication, Rural Infrastructure, Mining Services, Water Storage Infrastructure and Property and Investment.

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Thank you to our FBA & FBNZ National Partners

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