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Mudgee business leader wins State award for business leadership by Vicki Seccombe 13 December 2013
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haron Winsor (pictured), Managing Director of Indigiearth, has taken out the State’s top honours to win the 2013 Business Leader Award at the NSW Business Chamber State Business Awards held recently in Sydney. The Business Leader Award recognizes the positive contribution made to business by business people and professionals. The Award highlights those who demonstrate outstanding entrepreneurial spirit, strategic business direction and are an inspiration to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Based in Mudgee, Indigiearth is a business built on natural Australian Aboriginal skin care and food products. Sharon has been involved in business since 1996 providing employment skills and income to Aboriginal communities. She supplied her skin care products to the famous talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres on her Australian trip earlier this year and has been working with QANTAS to develop an Australian amenities kit for international flight services. Indigiearth is also the first Aboriginal company to supply bottled spring water from the Central Coast Kulnura area which is a culturally significant site for Aboriginal Australians. “Much of the success of Australian enterprise is rooted in the land and that is a value that Aboriginal people understand very well. I’m proud to be able to use my cultural traditions to build a successful business and I’m very honoured that my peers in the business community have
recognised that hard work,” said Sharon Winsor. “Indigiearth has touched the lives of many, through new employment opportunities, educating the wider community about Indigenous Australia and culture, and I hope that accolades such as this are drawing attention to the successes of Aboriginal Australian entrepreneurs and inspiring more.” NSW Business Chamber Regional Manager for the Central West Orana, Vicki Seccombe, said it was exciting for Sharon to be recognised with such a prestigious
Award. “Sharon Winsor has a great story to tell and it’s fantastic that we have the opportunity to honour her dedication to her community and the pursuit of business that can change people’s lives for the better,” Ms Seccombe said. “I hope the Business Leaders Award encourages and motivate more of our NSW Business Chamber members and members of the Local Chamber Alliance to strive for excellence and to be recognised for it by their peers.”
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