Evolution Tankers takes out Best Business Plan - Autumn Program

NSW business, Evolution Tankers has won the 2009 Enterprise Workshop Award for Best Business Plan and Best Financial Plan. The Evolution Tankers team comprised of Daniel Rodgers, William Rodgers and Chris Powell. The winning teams were selected by an independent panel of senior business people.

Daniel Rodgers of Evolution Tankers said, “The NSW Enterprise Workshop was a great experience for our business. The Workshop provides a series of lectures by experts in a diverse range of fields from finance and planning to team work and interpersonal relationships and our team took away a lot of key points from these sessions. I believe the Workshop represents great value for any enterprise wishing to examine its strategic direction and develop a plan to implement it.”

Evolution Tankers is an Australian company which has developed new technology for the bulk liquid transport industry. The company is building carbon fibre road tankers for major transport customers including Toll Resources and General Electric Water Technology. The tanker, called the Omni Tanker™, is significantly lighter and more versatile than competitive stainless steel or fibreglass tankers and can be used to transport a wide range of liquids from corrosive chemicals to food products and oils. The company is now expanding its manufacturing operations in Ingleburn and on the NSW mid north coast to meet projected for the Omni Tanker in the Australian transport market.

Chief of Judges John Scilly of the NSW Department of State & Regional Development said, “The Evolution Tankers team developed a comprehensive business plan that showed a real depth of insight into its major customers and their core needs and the company's competitive advantages.”

For more than 20 years, the NSW Enterprise Workshop has helped create and develop successful businesses. Senior business people volunteer their time and expertise as speakers, mentors and review panellists to guide participants through a structured business analysis and planning process to prepare high quality business plans. These plans can be used to support applications for development financing and to help manage the business into the future.