TWO northern suburbs businesses have been named as state rising stars.
Neerabup’s Passing Paws Pet Cremations won a 2017 Rising Stars Award for best start up at its June 28 awards night.
It has experienced strong growth since Lee and Rachel Cassell started the business in 2015 and Mr Cassell said they were proud of their recent success.
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“To be collectively recognised as a team from a third party not related to Passing Paws was phenomenal and helped the team feel a sense of worth.”
He said the company had grown by 350 per cent in the past 12 months.
“Passing Paws has grown not just in customers, but in online searches and a have huge social media following, which shows commitment of the team to support the community with our services,” he said.
“The judges will have seen the passion that the team hold within our business and will have identified these as foundations for success.”
The team pride themselves on being committed and compassionate, and offer industry first services such as same day cremation, home and vet collections, and compassion fatigue training for staff.
“Honesty, integrity, commitment, compassion, care and customer service are all the things that make our business a success,” Mr Cassell said.
“We put these values before everything else in our business and will continue to draw these skills out of every employee with bring into Passing Paws.”
Small business award
A GNANGARA business, Quality Printers and Cartridges, won the small business category in the 2017 Rising Stars Awards.
Director Lisa Spark said the win followed the company’s growth in the past year, including buying cartridge remanufacturers WA Toner Supplies in May and Laser Exchange last year.
“WA Toner Supplies and Laser Exchange stopped remanufacturing cartridges and our goal is to continue clients as per their current arrangement, yet introduce them and reignite their fire to use a local remanufactured genuine cartridge (Premium Plus) instead of an imported cartridge,” she said.
“QPC’s cartridges support local jobs, the environment by recycling, and we plant a tree on the clients’ behalf each time their order contains a Premium Plus cartridge.
“WA Toner Supplies and Laser Exchange were one of the original factories who remanufactured printer cartridges and started in the 1980s.”
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