	{"id":55614,"date":"2022-08-25T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=55614"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T05:29:55","slug":"award-finalists-featured-at-chambers-after-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/award-finalists-featured-at-chambers-after-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Award finalists featured at chamber&#8217;s After 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEELONG&#8217;S business community heard from some of the contenders in this year&#8217;s Geelong Business Excellence Awards at the Geelong Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s latest After 5 session.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation hosted the event at Fyansford venue Truffleduck with support from LBW Business + Wealth Advisors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57485\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57485 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Image3-TNG_98910-1-e1661217876912-640x320.jpg?_t=1661218084\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Neeld, Gary Robinson and Dan Nicholls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The room was filled with the Geelong business community, who also got to hear from finalists of the 2022 Geelong Business Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n<p>In an update on its website, the chamber announced this year\u2019s Geelong Business Excellence Awards had received a 20 per cent increase on total entries compared to the previous year, which was &#8220;a huge testament to our incredible clever, creative and connected Geelong business community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While not all entrants can proceed as finalists, the process allows all businesses to review and reflect on their business operations and potentially gain valuable insights and identify new key business improvements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57486\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57486 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Image6-TNG_62983-1-640x320.jpg?_t=1661217909\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessie Ryan, Mio Ristic and Juliana Gebara.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The awards presentation event will take place at GMHBA Stadium on October 27.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full list of finalists, head to <a href=\"http:\/\/gbea.com.au\/news\"><strong>gbea.com.au\/news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY JAMES TAYLORGEELONG&#8217;S business community heard from some of the contenders in this year&#8217;s Geelong Business Excellence Awards at the Geelong Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s latest After 5 session.The organisation hosted the event at Fyansford venue Truffleduck with support from LBW Business + Wealth Advisors.The room was filled with the Geelong business community, who also got to hear from finalists of the 2022 Geelong Business Excellence Awards.In an update on its website, the chamber announced this year\u2019s Geelong Business Excellence Awards had received a 20 per cent increase on total entries compared to the previous year, which was &#8220;a huge testament to our incredible clever, creative and connected Geelong business community&#8221;.&#8221;While not all entrants can proceed as finalists, the process allows all businesses to review and reflect on their business operations and potentially gain valuable insights and identify new key business improvements.&#8221;The awards presentation event will take place at GMHBA Stadium on October 27.To read the full list of finalists, head to gbea.com.au\/news  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/award-finalists-featured-at-chambers-after-5\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":55615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-55614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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