Retail & Personal Services

Description:

This category is to acknowledge businesses of excellence involved in the sale of products and services from a physical retail precinct building or a home based businesses retailing products and services (with stock on premises, held or made, sold from the home or sold online).

Questions:

1. Explain how you have achieved excellence in your nominated category.
   Maximum word count: 350
2. Provide an overview of the key features of your business plan including goals, strategies and outcomes.
   Maximum word count: 400
3. Define your businesses product and/or service offering/s.
   Maximum word count: 400
4. Define your target market/s.
   Maximum word count: 300
5. What is unique about your business in your industry i.e. what makes it stand out from your competitors?
   Maximum word count: 300
6. Detail your achievements in the previous financial year and how this was achieved, for example strategies etc.
   Maximum word count: 450
7. Detail the key challenges and opportunities your business and industry face in the future.
   Maximum word count: 300
8. What strategies or plans do you have in place to address these challenges and/or opportunities?
   Maximum word count: 450
9. Demonstrate how your business contributes to the local economy in your region. For example employing local people, local purchasing etc).
   Maximum word count: 250