Business Chamber Queensland Partners

Australian Retirement Trust

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) is one of Australia’s largest super funds with over a century of experience*. Over 2.3 million Australians trust us to take care of close to $300 billion of their retirement savings#.  Whether you have one employee or hundreds, we’re here to help your employees awaken their super and retire well with confidence.

We are a fund that puts your business and your people first, trusted by over 185,000 employers. By partnering with us, you’ll get the benefits of being with one of Australia’s largest super funds including:

• specialist support when you need it
• secure online employer platforms
• education resources
• rewards program

Learn more about Australian Retirement Trust

*QSuper was founded in 1913 before merging with Sunsuper on 28 February 2022 to form Australian Retirement Trust. 

#As at April 2024 

This information and all products are issued by Australian Retirement Trust Pty Ltd ABN 88 010 720 840, AFSL 228975, trustee of Australian Retirement Trust ABN 60 905 115 063 (‘the Fund’ or ‘ART’). 

BDO

BDO is a trusted adviser to clients seeking Audit, Tax and Advisory services. As one of the world’s leading Audit and Accounting organisations, they have clients of all types and sizes from large corporate organisations to private businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals across an array of industry sectors.

Bespoken

Bespoken is an integrated communications, engagement and marketing agency that uses evidence-based thinking to elevate your brand in a manner befitting your audience and ambitions. We convert challenges into elegant and tailored opportunities. At Bespoken, we have three key areas of service – communications, engagement and marketing. They serve very different purposes, but find a common link in stories: how we shape them, how we share them and how we amplify them to your customers, communities and clients.

Birgit Schnelle – EOS®

EOS® – Entrepreneurial Operating System

Don’t just survive in business when you can thrive. Get actionable clear purpose and vision, so that you can transform your business and life. Clarify, align, and accelerate with EOS®.

EOS is a complete business operating system now used by more than 200,000 companies as it develops your leadership team and brings team alignment, rhythm, and business performance.

EOS® helps:

• Crystallize your vision, so everyone is on the same page and rowing in the same direction
• Execute your vision by building structure and accountability into your businesses, and
• Build a healthy leadership team that is cohesive, trusting and highly functional.

It’s empowering, simple, and highly effective. As outlined in the book “Atomic Habits”: “While goals provide direction, it is the systems that truly drive sustained success.”

M:+61 433 544 006

E: [email protected]

W: www.birgitschnelle.com.au

The BUSY Group

The BUSY Group is an innovative not-for-profit organisation, leading the way in apprenticeship, employment, education and training solutions. We provide employers with customised solutions for their current and future workforce needs and help people realise their potential. 

Whether you are looking for support or resources to assist with: 

• Recruitment 

• Diversity & Inclusion 

• Apprenticeships & Traineeships 

• Wellness in the workplace 

• Contract Management 

Or learn more about our BUSY Schools – Specialised Assistance Schools supporting youth in years 11 & 12 become re-engaged with education (registered charity). 

We’re a home-grown, Queensland business that now offers a range of free services and programs nationally.  

BUSY is committed to our mission of having more people in jobs, more people learning new skills and more communities exposed to positive change, in partnership with employers and industry. 

Clima

Clima is an end-to-end carbon solutions advisory, high integrity environmental assets and distribution platform. Clima specialises in providing Australian businesses with market leading carbon solutions and high-quality carbon offsets. Clima’s focus on delivering effective and credible strategies for companies looking to make a genuine impact in the sustainability efforts.

We understand the importance of reliability and quality in carbon offsetting. By partnering with us, you gain access to the best carbon credits available, ensuring that your sustainability initiatives are both impactful and trustworthy. Our commitment to high-quality solutions not only benefits the environment but also strengthens your business’s reputation as a leader in responsible practices.

We provide an end-to-end solution, whether your business is starting their net-zero journey or looking to increase the impact of the climate initiatives Clima has a solution for all businesses.

Constant Contact

Running a small business is tough, particularly when you have to do all the jobs. We’ve got the tools you need to make your marketing go much smoother, which means you can relax just a little bit more. And if you ever run into trouble, our local support team based in Australia are on hand to help. 

What good is your email campaign if a chunk of it never arrives? Other companies are strangely shy about their deliverability rates. We’re not. Ours is 97%. And we’re pretty proud of that. 

Whether you’re just starting out or you’re opening your newest location, we have the tools to help you attract new customers and grow your business — in just a few clicks, our AI-powered Campaign Builder can customise a marketing plan for you! 

Containers for Change

Containers for Change is Queensland’s container refund program.

Queenslanders receive 10-cents for each eligible container returned for recycling and can choose to keep their refund or donate it to a local charity, school or community group. By taking part, Queensland’s residents are helping clean up the environment while contributing to a circular economy.

Containers for Change operates on a not-for-profit basis. It is focused on driving social enterprise, improving environmental outcomes and contributing to a sustainable future for Queensland.

Containers for Change partners with businesses of all sizes around Queensland to drive positive recycling outcomes by developing customised container collection solutions that suit their work environment. Our team advise on collection infrastructure and placement, link you with an operator for scheduled pick-ups and can also help with arranging your refunds to be a donated to a charity of your choice. Regular reporting shows the impact your collections are making and a dedicated relationship manager is available for assistance when you need it.

By simplifying responsible waste management, Containers for Change empowers businesses to be part of the solution, turning used containers into valuable resources and contributing to business ESG targets.

Creating Leaders

Creating Leaders embed the skills, culture and practice of great leadership into organisations, delivering enhanced performance, productivity and engagement from teams.

We assist businesses to create a stronger, more robust, engaged and valuable Organisation.

Great strong organisations are well led, not only from the top but at every level where people are achieving their outcomes through people.

This is seen through the quality and frequency of communication in a corporation, the openness of its people to improve themselves and a culture of people wanting and expecting to be well led.

At Creating Leaders, our approach is to design, deliver and support great leadership programs – ones that truly move the thinking and culture of an organisation through developing the behaviours of its leaders and managers, delivering bottom line results.

We do this by getting under the corporate skin – to understand a business’ culture and strategy, its commercial imperatives and unrealised opportunities.

Cryptoloc

Cryptoloc uniquely tackles the often-overlooked issue that SaaS providers can fully access your data, presenting a significant privacy risk. Our patented technology ensures that our customer data is exclusively owned and accessible only by them. Secured from the device and impenetrable to us, the cloud provider, criminals, and anyone in between. We offer affordable seamless file management and secure file sharing with built-in instant recovery, making data breaches and ransomware concerns a thing of the past.

Value of Cryptoloc:

• Robust Security: Cryptoloc ensures strong protection for your business files, preventing cyber threats like ransomware attacks
• Complete Control: With Cryptoloc, you’re in charge of who accesses your files and when, keeping your sensitive files safe from unauthorised access
• Automatic Backup: Cryptoloc automatically saves different versions of your files, so you never have to worry about losing important data
• Secure access anywhere: Securely access your information from any device
• Microsoft 365: Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft 365, including Outlook, making it easy for you to collaborate securely with your team
• Alerts: Cryptoloc alerts you if someone tries to access your files without permission, helping you stay ahead of potential security breaches
• Legacy: Preserve your business’ legacy by designating specific files or folders to be sent to individuals only in a trigger event such as death or incapacitation
• Community: Cryptoloc is a Queensland-built business that is passionate about protecting Queenslanders and giving back to local communities and charities

Customerit

Is marketing costing you money instead of connecting you to growth?  You don’t need to settle for random acts of marketing that fall short of expectations.

Customerit is a team of growth specialists with deep experience across a range of industries.  We turn under-performing marketing functions into growth centres.

Customerit Growth Programs have supported hundreds of SMBs to escape the hamster wheel of spray and pray tactics and secure growth.  We work with business leaders to better understand their customers and operating market, allowing them to activate the right growth strategy to get the most out of their investment in marketing, both now and in the future.

From understanding customers to building marketing strategy.

Our customer-focused process delivers insights that are completely tailored to the unique needs of your business and market. We’ll understand, segment and attract your customers, so that your marketing strategy will be based on fact and rooted in truth, not on misguided assumptions. We deliver actionable outcomes for immediate application through your marketing strategy: Customers. Marketing. Growth.

Fruit2Work

Fruit2Work, is an award winning, certified social enterprise and registered charity, delivering fresh fruit, milk, bread, and pantry items to workplaces. Fruit2Work creates chances for people who have been impacted by the justice system.

Established in Melbourne in 2016, Fruit2Work has expanded to Queensland and is now delivering to Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Toowoomba and Tweed Heads.

We provide meaningful transitional employment, together with other wraparound support such as our ‘Transition2Change’ program, we help our people enhance their self-worth, reconnect with family, and reintegrate into society. At Fruit2Work it’s about being better than we were yesterday. Learn more about us:

https://fruit2work.com.au/

1300 329 753

Unit 1/33 Stockwell Place, Archerfield, 4108

Gilchrist Connell

Gilchrist Connell is a leading insurance sector law firm that operates across all Australian jurisdictions from its five offices. The firm’s fresh approach to legal services sets it apart. Gilchrist Connell is trusted by clients across Australia to provide commercial advice and representation. The team of over 140 lawyers advises insurers, brokers, underwriting agencies, self-insureds, insureds and businesses operating nationally and internationally across all lines of insurance. We also provide employment, WHS, restructuring and insolvency, corporate and commercial advice, and front-end solutions, to businesses, including the insurance sector, at all stages of their life cycle.

Mitsubishi Motors

Mitsubishi Motors partnership with Business Chamber Queensland is driven by a shared commitment to building a supportive and innovative future. Mitsubishi Motors has a storied history in Australia dating back to 1980, with decades of manufacturing, vehicle innovation and providing Australian consumers with reliable and versatile vehicles that have become an integral part of the nation’s automotive landscape. By partnering with Business Chamber Queensland, Mitsubishi Motors aim to provide tailored vehicle solutions that support the needs of Business Chamber Queensland members, contributing to the growth and success of this important industry in Australia.

National Fleet pricing with Mitsubishi Diamond Advantage (10/10) is offered to all Business Chamber Queensland members subject to terms and conditions* for all eligible new Mitsubishi Motors vehicles. (Available during partnership term of 1^st October 2023 to 30^th September 2024 not in conjunction with any other offer).

For more information and to discuss how Mitsubishi Motors can help your organisation, contact Nathan Finch at [email protected] or 0466 863 550.

*Terms & Conditions

National Fleet Pricing is available with Diamond Advantage Warranty and Capped price servicing subject to terms and conditions which can be found here: www.mitsubishi-motors.com.au/owners/diamond-advantage

QUT

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is an ambitious institution, with a growing research output focused on technology and innovation. QUT ranks in the world’s top 200 universities.

Our strategic plan establishes QUT as ‘the university for the real world’ and charts our provision of transformative education and research that is relevant to our communities.

With more than 50,000 students across two inner-city campuses in Brisbane, QUT offers academic programs in fields spanning business, creative industries, education, engineering, health, law, science, and social justice across five faculties.

Privy

With over 50M active verified users, 130M signed documents and 3,500+ companies under our protection, Privy is a leading digital trust provider. With Privy’s reusable digital ID, we build ecosystems of trust by offering user-centric digital identity solutions that verify authenticity whilst maintaining the highest level of privacy and security.

Supagas

Supagas is a leading supplier of LPG, industrial, medical, specialty and helium gases in Australia. We are a fast-growing nation-wide company and are rapidly building a reputation for growth and success based on an exceptional ‘YES WE CAN’ customer service offering and quality product in the highly competitive market.

Today, Supagas has multiple distribution centres, branches and agencies growing nation-wide and is able to provide a fast and reliable delivery along with personal responses to queries, ensuring quality service every time. Supagas’ state-of-the-art facilities allows us to offer multiple gas types and gas products, as well as run specialised laboratories to mix and test specialty gas. This helps us to better service our customers’ needs and requirements.

Our competitive advantage is based on reliable delivery, fast and personal responses to queries, and outstanding customer service.

Supagas supplies a wide range of industrial and commercial gas products, including forklift gas cylinders, welding gas, medical gas products and much more.

RSM Australia

RSM is a powerful Network of assurance, tax and consulting experts with offices all over the world. As an integrated team, we share skills, insight and resources, as well as a client-centric approach that’s based on a deep understanding of your business. This is how we empower you to move forward with confidence and realise your full potential.

At RSM, we are here to support and advise you on a wide range of issues from audit and assurance, consulting, tax, risk advisory, IFRS, restructuring, transaction and business and financial advisory solutions. As well as these core services, around the world we offer a wide range of specialist services, such as wealth management, IT consulting, legal advisory, forensic accounting and human resource consulting. Our role is to support you to better understand your businesses, overcome challenges and achieve your aspirations.

Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia Business Flyer is the more rewarding rewards program specifically designed for SMEs. Members save up to 6% on flights and earn bonus Velocity Points on eligible flights for their business, plus many more exclusive benefits. It’s free to join with no membership costs, all you need is an ABN.