The winners of the New Zealand ‘Design in Business Awards’ were announced last night in Auckland.
Dunedin based Tap and showerware company Methven took the top award. Highly commended was Christchurch’s AuCom Electronics and the worlds fastest growing accounting system Xero ( we use it and it rocks our accounting party).
The finalists were:
Amie Design Group – creator of Merino Kids, Pure Cotton Kids, Hum and Merino Pure.
phil&teds – NZ leaders in nursery products.
Sonar6 – the world’s only graphics-based employment management system.
Winegrowers of Ara – a global wine business.
Judge David Walker commented that these companies have shown that it is possible to successfully combine ‘left and right’ brain activities in business.
The awards were started in 1997 by the Designers Institute of New Zealand. The aim of the Design in Business Award is to celebrate New Zealand companies who have used and fostered design to develop more competitive products and businesses, and to establish a link between an investment in design and business growth.
Read more about the champions here
Just as well we didn’t enter….. we would have cleaned up for sure.