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NEW SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – Football Development Australia

Football Development Australia’s corporate football events bring staff, supporters and families together each year for a unique corporate team sport experience. The tournaments also offer a unique team building and business networking experience as players and supporters connect over the course of the day’s football.

Since 2010 teams from companies such as Macquarie Bank, Reserve Bank of Australia, KPMG, SAP, Westfield, Laing O’Rourke, Cisco, Oracle, Randstad, Dimension Data, BMW, Nissan, Volkswagen, Toyota, Hyundai, Sony, Qantas, Roche, Leaseplan and many more have taken part in FDA’s corporate football events each year. The tournaments are based on a FIFA World Cup format with a round robin group stage followed by the excitement of the knock out phase and often the dreaded penalty shoot out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 FDA Corporate World Cup football tournament

📣 Football Development Australia gives corporate teams in Sydney the opportunity to represent their company and a country of their choice at the 2023 FDA Corporate World Cup football tournament.

This annual event provides a truly unique team-building and business networking opportunity for players, staff, corporate teams, and their supporters. The winners will take an exact replica of the World Cup trophy back to the office! ⚽🏆

🗓 Friday 3 March 2023
🕐 9.30am (AEDT)
📍 David Phillips Sports Complex, Daceyville

Event Link ➡  http://bit.ly/3TjXTpA

Contact:

Cormac Begley
Director
Football Development Australia 
Direct: +61-2- 9024 5122
Mob: +61- 431 400074
cormac@footballdevelopment.com.au

footballdevelopment.com.au/corporate/

NEW SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – Piab

Evolving automation since 1951

Piab is evolving automation through progressive gripping, lifting and moving solutions. We believe in an automated world where no resources are wasted, and no humans are injured.

We specialise in automated process components and solutions to enable gripping, lifting and moving applications for our customers in all industries with special attention to Packaging, Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Logistics and Warehousing, Plastics and Automotive.

It all started with an invention

Piab´s founder Sven Tell and his love for the mathematical formula pi led to the development of the unique drawing compass. This also prompted the company name “Pi” and “AB” which is the Swedish word for Incorporated (Inc.). This was back in 1951 and Piab has been coming up with new inventions throughout the decades since.

By 1968, Sven´s son Peter Tell had founded Piab’s vacuum division, which formed the basis for today´s company. He invented the first vacuum product, the PmS-Pistol. Piab´s first multistage vacuum ejector laid the foundation for a wide range of vacuum products that were to follow in the 1970s. With this new technology, Piab began expanding beyond Sweden, eventually becoming a global company with distributors and subsidiaries worldwide.

Other products like vacuum pumps, suction cups and vacuum conveyors, were added to the product line in subsequent decades and in recent years, multiple acquisitions have helped to expand the offering even further. Today, Piab offers ergonomic handling and robotic gripping solutions which complement the company’s traditional vacuum automation and vacuum conveying solutions.

Piab has registered more than 65 patents over the years and the pace of innovation is continuously increasing along with the demand for automated solutions. As Piab takes the lead in the industry, research and development is as important as ever, and we will continue to provide our customers with progressive gripping, lifting and moving solutions that help them evolve.

Peter Tell and his family sold Piab in 2006, and today Piab is fully owned by Patricia Industries, part of Investor AB. The company still very much feels like a family. In fact, it is the familial feel alongside the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that remains the heart of the company. Piab will always continue to follow its own inner compass.

Piab in facts

900+ employees
25 sales offices throughout the world
900+ partners globally
4 divisions
100 countries presence
HQ in Täby, Sweden

Find out more about Piab here

 

Contact:

Martina Harvey, Piab

martina.harvey@piab.com

NEW SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – AshtonLegal

Ashton Legal is a client centred law firm with a focus on Australian immigration law. Our clients have the confidence that their Australian immigration needs in the complex and ever-changing environment of Australian immigration law are fully met.

Corporate and Employment Visas:  For businesses looking to hire overseas talent during skills shortages in Australia, we offer strategic migration advice, migration monitoring and compliance. We support employer nomination visas such as subclasses 482, 186, 494, 191, 407, as well as subclass 400 visas.

Global Talent Visas 858 (Independent) or through GTE (Employer nominated):  The Global Talent Visa is one of the most streamlined permanent resident visas and is based on a sustained international record of outstanding and exceptional achievements in key target sectors. This visa is suitable for start-up entrepreneurs, technological leaders in innovation driven/ technology focused target sectors, including Agtech/Agri-food, Circular economy, Defence/advanced manufacturing and space, Digitech, Education, Energy, Financial service/fintech, Health industries, Infrastructure/tourism and Resources.

The Global Talent Employer Sponsored (GTES) program allows employers to sponsor overseas workers for highly skilled niche positions that cannot be filled by Australian workers or through other standard subclass 482 visa programmes. Weblink – https://ashtonlegal.com.au/global-talent-independent/

Read more about AshtonLegal here

Contact:

Ruobing Yang, Legal Practitioner Director, Immigration Law

ryang@ashtonlegal.com.au

NEW SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – Howwe Technologies

 

Howwe Technologies is an international SaaS company, with its headquarters in Stockholm. Its enterprise execution software Howwe is a proactive enterprise execution software that helps organisations to execute better and faster on their strategies by visualising, steering, and measuring the business and strategy acceleration in real-time and accurately throughout the entire organisation. By providing the tools and ability to be business agile, Howwe helps its customers to increase revenues and profits.

Howwe is a new kind of business innovation – Enterprise Execution Software. It’s a shared platform that’s making the business plans clear and actionable for all levels of the organisation, unleashing companies’ full potential for growth. The result: Financial targets consistently hit or exceeded year after year.

What is the rationale for Howwe?

It’s hard to believe but 8 out of 10 CEOs fail to fully realise their financial goals and strategic initiatives! Why? Because they’re too ingrained in old practices and have grown accustomed to those ways – can you imagine how much money goes down the drain just from bad strategy execution across the globe? If more company boards knew the extent of the financial losses that arose from not adopting new strategy execution practices and technologies, there isn’t a CEO on the globe who would be allowed to continue without a digital toolset to ensure on-time execution.

This takes us to the core of the problem – most CEOs simply aren’t aware of the technological opportunities available to them. Can you believe that the persons with the overarching responsibility to ensure that goals are met, are still using Excel spreadsheets or other analogue tools to steer their companies? And meanwhile all other functions in a company have already moved on to radical digitisation decades ago. Look at Sales Managers for example. Do you think they would have the same possibility to succeed without the use of a CRM? And at the same time, we know that the main responsibility of the CEO, that is to execute strategy, is probably harder today than ever before, complicated by speed of change expected by shareholders, hybrid working, complex global supply chains and a dynamic macro-economic environment.

As the world rapidly changes, we cannot afford to lose sight of what is important. If you are not prepared for disruptions, and are not equipped to truly achieve measurable results, you risk being left behind by your competition.

I bet you want to be set up for success and equipped for change so that the next global disruption won’t catch you off guard? How else are you supposed to achieve the increased revenue, profit, and share-holder value that’s expected of you? How else are you supposed to thrive as your game plan is forced to change due to external disruptions? How else are you going to quickly align the entire workforce and get them to pro-actively contribute to make sure you are on track, instead of realising you failed when it’s already too late to act?

To sum it up, 8 out of 10 CEOs fail to fully execute their strategic initiatives. Don’t be one of them. Execution at all levels must start the day the strategy is set. It must be measurable and integrated into the weekly routine on all levels of the company to get the focus and speed that’s required, and it must be connected to both the top and bottom lines of your company. And you know what? It starts with the CEO. There’s no more time to waste. The Enterprise Execution Software platform Howwe is here for you every step of the way to make sure you stay ahead of the game.

See website and video below for more information about Howwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7EXSykMQSc&ab_channel=Howwe

Contact:

Stephen Bowhill, Managing Director Australia & New Zealand

stephen.bowhill@howwe.com.au

NEW CORPORATE MEMBER – Sinch

Sinch is a telecommunications and cloud communications platform. Sinch enables businesses to send text messages to large numbers of customers and to make video and voice calls. With its headquarter in Stockholm, Sweden, Sinch also has offices in over 30 cities worldwide, including Atlanta, London, Madrid, San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney.

See website and video below for more information on Sinch

Contact:

Liam Schmit, VP, Sales APAC

Guillaume.Schmit@sinch.com

https://www.sinch.com/

NEW PREMIUM MEMBER – AXIS Communications

AXIS Communications is a Swedish manufacturer of network cameras, access control, and network audio devices for the physical security and video surveillance industries. We create network solutions to improve security and optimize business performance. We enable a smarter and safer world by creating network solutions to improve security and to find new ways of doing business.

Innovating for a smarter, safer world

The world is changing fast, and we make sure we stay ahead of those changes. While security is still our main focus, we are gradually expanding into related markets using new network-based products and solutions.

Our experience working with network video and audio solutions, analytics and access control contributes to the protection of people and property, process optimization, and increases business efficiency and information access.

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Video surveillance solutions

Video Management Software and recorders, analytics and applications.

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Access control solutions

Open, scalable and flexible access control solutions that integrate seamlessly with other systems.

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Intercom

Surveillance, reliable communication and remote door access combined

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Training, service and support

Academy trainings, technical support and tools help customers to get the most out of their investment.

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Audio solutions

Complete, high-quality audio solutions to improve security, make live or scheduled announcements.

 

www.axis.com

 

NEW SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – FALLON DASEY

For a country of just 10 million people, Sweden has an extraordinarily large number of successful industrial companies. Fallon Dasey is an Australian creative agency with a focus on helping Swedish businesses communicate their messages worldwide.

Based at Manly on Sydney’s northern beaches, the agency produces creative content including films, customer stories, reports and brochures for Swedish corporates and their Australian subsidiaries. Fallon Dasey’s team members are a mix of Australians and Swedes. The business’s direct customers include Sandvik Australia, Saab Australia, Saab Group and Skanska. Via partner agencies, the team produces content for Swedish businesses including SKF, Trelleborg, Axel Johnson, Atlas Copco and more.

Fallon Dasey was founded by Daniel Dasey a former Sydney Morning Herald editor. Daniel lived with his Swedish wife, Karin, and young family in Stockholm from 2012 and 2015. He worked on staff for two large Swedish content agencies, producing content for clients ranging from Scania and Ericsson to ABB, IKEA, ASSA ABLOY and Elekta. Daniel was seriously impressed by the efficiency and innovation shown by Swedish companies, as well as their commitment to high values and diversity.

 

When the family returned to Australia in 2015, Daniel was keen to replicate the Swedish content agency model here. Fallon Dasey initially just offered writing services. But the offering was substantially widened in 2019. The business now provides services including photography, filmmaking, Swedish-to-English translation, graphic design, web design, advertising campaign production, annual report production, magazine production and social media management.

 

The 2022 financial year is proving especially busy and the Fallon Dasey agency has been working on content for global websites, SEO projects and annual reports. However, our network of creative professionals is also expanding meaning we have the capacity to take on new clients and deliver a wider range of services to existing customers.

 

View Fallon Dasey’s brand video here: https://vimeo.com/427968506

Download a capability statement here: https://fallondasey.com/contact-us/

View Fallon Dasey’s portfolio here: https://fallondasey.com/our-work/

Fallon Dasey Capability Statement

Fallon Dasey Content

Primary contact:

Daniel Dasey

daniel@fallondasey.com

0449 119842

18 Lakeside Crescent, North Manly, NSW

www.fallondasey.com

NEW SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – KMSI – Celemi Solution Provider

KMSI Pty Ltd – a long-standing local provider of Celemi business simulations. 

Celemi is a Swedish company based in Malmö, founded through the genius of Klas Melander who was able to develop a common thread of learning to form the basis of how business and people’s roles and responsibilities contribute to value creation and change.   The programs generate an experiential, quick, and fun way to ‘get everyone on the same page’ for engagement in change linked to strategic initiatives and leadership development.  Many say it is like going through an MBA in a few days.  Celemi’s go to market model is based on developing solution providers who provide local knowledge and experience.  Celemi is represented in over 70 countries.

KMSI is celebrating its 30th year in association with delivering business simulations and Celemi, first as a client with Hitachi and since 1998 as a solution provider. KMSI’s expertise in developing and aligning business acumen to engage and promote greater return on investments.  This year we will be extending this into the new area of sustainability.  KMSI is based in Sydney and has delivered programs throughout Australia and Asia Pacific for clients.  KMSI was formed in 1998 by an executive director, Rob Wells, that was so impressed with value experienced from the Celemi simulations, he forged the local market and assisted in the local delivery for global clients.  The Australian market is important as many global clients utilise Australia as a test market for competitive influences and value creation, which if articulated properly can demonstrate how Swedish innovation can play out globally.  KMSI is keen to demonstrate how global innovation can be paired with local expertise to add value and local context.

Contact details:

Rob Wells, KMSI

wells@kmsi.com.au

0419 228 283

The basis of the simulations are experiential games, originally board-based, but due to the pandemic have been migrating to a digital format.  Clients still have the luxury of selecting a blend if needed.  Games range from engaging ‘finance for everyone’ with a game called Apples & Oranges to complex scenario planning linked to your value chain to experience and practice change.  Return on Investments come from enhanced planning, execution, and improved leadership in initiatives.  KMSI has experience from small to large organisations including simulating M&A’s across all industries.

We are excited that this year a simulation will include engaging dynamic strategies of sustainability. Combining the program with mapping the strategy with KMSI’s maturity analysis framework which can be extended to the entire supply chain can further engage stakeholders throughout the organisation. 

NEWS from SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – FINNAIR

News from Finnair
In October 2021, Finnair has launched long-haul flights from Stockholm to Bangkok, Phuket, Miami, New York and Los Angeles. All the flights are operated by our brand new A350. Stockholm Arlanda airport is now a second hub for Finnair. It’s great news for the Swedish community in Australia because they can now fly to Stockholm with either 1 stop in the US or 1 stop in Asia.

On 10th of February, Finnair launched a new long-haul experience. Read more here https://www.finnair.com/en/finnair-travel-classes/finnair-premium-economy

Finnair.com

 

NEW PREMIUM MEMBER – SIGNUP SOFTWARE

SignUp Software was founded in 1999 and launched ExFlow in 2003. SignUp Software is family owned. Over the years SignUp Software has built a solid reputation on Microsoft Dynamics expertise showcased by their AP and invoice process automation solution ExFlow.

ExFlow by SignUp Software is a built-in, feature-rich AP Invoice Automation solution developed specifically for Microsoft D365 Finance and Operations (AX) and Microsoft D365 Business Central (NAV). ExFlow enables organizations to increase efficiency, transparency, and control in their AP Invoice process, driving down costs while generating substantial process savings. More than 1,100 customers processing more than 50 million invoices annually rely on ExFlow to empower their AP Invoice Process across the globe.

SignUp Software was founded in 1999 and launched ExFlow in 2003. Fueled by an entrepreneurial mindset, SignUp Software is a global forerunner of financial process automation inside Microsoft Dynamics 365. SignUp currently operates out of Stockholm, Sweden (HQ), Denmark, North America and Australia and count approximately 90 employees across the globe.

Contact details:

SignUp Software Pty LTD
Three International Towers, Level 25, 300 Barangaroo Avenue
Barangaroo NSW 2000, Sydney, Australia
Tel: +61 2 8069 8977

info@signupsoftware.com

www.signupsoftware.com