The Award Shop

13/04/2024

Huge congratulations to Satyan Mehra and the team at iConsult. Four years of scooping up awards at NZ Mortgage Awards.
106 finalists and 81 wins in eight and a half years at The Award Shop.

21/12/2023

A huge year for The Award Shop clients.

2023 Award winners and finalists
(November 2022 – November 2023)

NZ Hi-Tech Awards
FINALIST: Hi-Tech Young Achiever: Dr Sean Feast
FINALIST: Most Innovative Deep Tech Solution: MACSO
FINALIST: Best Hi-Tech Solution for the Public Good: Ignite Aotearoa
FINALIST: Hi-Tech Inspiring Individual: John Robson

CIO Awards
WINNER: Saba Samiei, CEO of MACSO, Emerging ICT Leader of the Year

Women in AI Awards (APAC region)
WINNER: MACSO, Innovator Award (Supreme Award)
WINNER: MACSO, AI in Agribusiness and Rural Development

Hospitality Management Awards (HM Awards) for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific
A 100% finalist listing for nine individuals, hotels and hotel groups entered.
PLUS one WINNER and three HIGHLY COMMENDED

Reuters Responsible Business Awards (global)
WINNER: Hind Management and Sudima Hotels - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion category. This is a global award of which Hind Management/Sudima Hotels should be justly proud. The judges wrote:
“Hind Management is a fantastic example of deep, thorough commitment to DEI, with a strong emphasis on inclusion issues such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, indigeneity – all key challenges for the hospitality sector. The judges look forward to seeing how their initiatives develop with further investments!”

Recreation Awards 2023
WINNER: Hastings District Council, Flaxmere Park, Outstanding Recreation Facility
WINNER: Hastings District Council, Flaxmere Park, Outstanding Park

Sustainable Business Awards 2023
FINALIST: Outstanding Collaboration Award for Connect Community Hub, a partnership between Hastings District Council, Hastings Church and Anglican Care Waiapu which is improving outcomes for the Hastings homeless community.

Local Government NZ Awards 2023
WINNER: SuperCollab Award for Connect Community Hub
WINNER: Supreme Awards for Connect Community Hub

NZ Mortgage Awards
WINNER: Finance Advisor of the Year, Specialist Lending, Satyan Mehra, CEO and Founder, iConsult
WINNER: Commercial Mortgage Advisor, Satyan Mehra
WINNER: Mortgage Brokerage of the Year, iConsult

Indian Newslink Business Awards 2023
WINNER: Business Excellence in Retail, Xtreme Beauty

The David Awards
FINALIST: ESG Strategy, Solo Meo Award

Diversity Awards 2023
FINALIST: Hind Management/Sudima Hotels, Leadership Award

NZ Tourism Awards
FINALIST: Awatere Douglas, Hotel Manager, Sudima Lake Rotorua, Emerging Leader Award

Rotorua Business Awards
WINNER: Awatere Douglas, Emerging Business Leader

Eco-Business A-List Fourth Edition
WINNER: Eco-Business A-List, Kanika Jhunjhnuwala, Executive Director- Sustainability & Environment, Hind Management. This list honours sustainability practitioners, entrepreneurs and social innovators who lead and represent companies that drive positive impact across the Asia Pacific region.

NZ HR Awards 2024 (awards announced in 2024 – only finalists announced at present)
FINALIST: Hind Management, Building Sustainability through People

21/12/2023

Thoroughly spoilt by my favourite client, Hind Management and Sudima Hotels. Thank you so much for providing the best material to work with.

01/05/2023

Satyan Mehra, such a star. You've done it again. Three awards at the NZ Mortgage Awards 2023. We've been working together for seven years and it has been such a pleasure. I've lost count of the number of accolades you have won. It must be almost 20. HUGE congratulations.

19/04/2023

Seven years after starting The Award Shop and putting the spit and polish on many companies entering multitudes of awards, we continue our 95% success rate with a total of 60 wins and 87 finalists.

06/04/2023

HUGE congratulations to all the finalists for the NZ Hi-Tech Awards, announced last night. Especially proud (and humbled by so much genius) to be involved with MACSO (the inimitable Saba Samiei and team), John Robson of Bridgewest, Sean Feast of Precision Chromatography and Ignite Aotearoa.

MACSO – finalist for Most Innovative Deep Tech Solution
John Robson – finalist for Hi-Tech Inspiring Individual
Dr Sean Feast – finalist for Hi-Tech Young Achiever
Ignite Aotearoa – finalist for Best Hi-Tech Solution for the Public Good

© Copyright 2023 The New Zealand Hi-Tech Trust. All rights of the sponsor companies reserved. Entrant information will be held in commercial confidence.

03/11/2022

More awards for two fabulous clients. Jabra, producing the world’s best technology for sound and audio transmission has won the Vendor Innovation Award at the Reseller News Innovation Awards and Theren Naidoo of LIC won Learning and Development Practitioner of the Year at the NZATD Awards.

08/09/2022

Seven finalists in one day:
- NZ International Business Awards x 4
- Westpac Auckland Business Awards x 2
- Sustainable Business Awards x 1

Seven years of The Award Shop.
57 winners.
81 finalists.
95% success rate.
100% awesome clients.

11/04/2022

Six years after starting The Award Shop and putting the spit and polish on many companies entering multitudes of awards, I'm delighted to say that we've continued the 95% success rate. 57 wins and 69 finalists in six years.

29/03/2022

Delighted to see Wellington Drive Technologies achieve finalist in the 2022 NZ Hi-Tech Awards in two categories: Most Innovative Hi-Tech Software Solution and Hi-Tech Company of the Year.
Proud to work with this awesome company.

18/10/2021

A massively successful year of award winners and finalists. We are so proud to work with these smart entrepreneurs and clever companies. From hospitality to high tech, see the full list of award winners below. With many award ceremonies yet to come, expect to see many of these finalists convert to winners!

EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Finalist – Matthew Bennett, Founder and Managing Director of Nibblish
https://www.ey.com/en_nz/entrepreneur-of-the-year/new-zealand/2021-finalists/matthew-bennett

REINZ Awards – Winner, Manager of the Year – Catherine Goodwin, CEO
https://www.blog.reinz.co.nz/blog/2021-awards

Hospitality NZ Awards for Excellence:
Fable Dunedin – Finalist – Best Hotel
Fable Dunedin – Finalist – Best Luxury Hotel
Fable Dunedin – Finalist – Best New Redeveloped Business - Accommodation
Fable Hotels & Resorts – Finalist – Excellence in Marketing
Hotel Fitzroy, curated by Fable – Finalist – Best Hotel
Hotel Fitzroy, curated by Fable – Finalist – Best Luxury Boutique Hotel
Hotel Grand Windsor – Finalist - Best Hotel
Hotel Grand Windsor – Finalist - Best Luxury Hotel
The Press Club – Finalist – Best Restaurant
https://www.hospitality.org.nz/s/awards

NZ Hi-Tech Awards – Finalist, Start-Up Company of the Year – FileInvite (second year running)
https://www.hitech.org.nz/awards/finalists/year/2021

Westpac Auckland Business Awards (Auckland Central) – Excellence in Marketing, Finalist – Pet.co.nz
https://www.aucklandbusinessawards.co.nz/finalists-past-winners/westpac-auckland-business-awards-2021-regional-finalists/westpac-auckland-business-awards-2021-central-finalists/

Westpac Auckland Business Awards (Auckland South & East) – Excellence in Innovation, Finalist – Universal Granite
https://www.aucklandbusinessawards.co.nz/finalists-past-winners/westpac-auckland-business-awards-2021-regional-finalists/westpac-auckland-business-awards-2021-south-east-finalists/

Westpac Franchise Awards – Finalist, Retail & Hospitality Franchise System of the Year – Caci NZ
https://caci.co.nz/blogs/news/caci-named-finalists-in-westpac-new-zealand-franchise-awards-2021

NZ Mortgage Awards:
Mortgage Brokerage of the Year (1-10 people) – Winner, iConsult
Best Customer Service from an Individual Office – Winner, Satyan Mehra
Best Independent Mortgage Advisor – Winner, Satyan Mehra
https://www.mpamag.com/nz/best-in-mortgage/rankings/new-zealand-mortgage-awards-2021/satyan-mehra-iconsult-mortgage-brokerage/307727

Deloitte Excellence in Energy Awards – Winner, Network Initiative of the Year – OMV
https://www.energyawards.co.nz/content/multiple-innovations-demonstrated-during-pipeline-repair

Reseller News Women in ICT Awards – Finalist, Entrepreneur – Shabana Khan
https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/689654/reseller-news-women-ict-awards-2021-winners/?pp=2

06/05/2021

Almost a year ago, we wrote submissions for the NZ Energy Excellence Awards on behalf of OMV NZ. The awards ceremony was then postponed twice owing to lockdowns. Last night OMV NZ won 'Network Initiative of the Year'. Amazing mahi. Some of it is secret squirrel but we can tell you this:

While most of NZ’s population isolated at home during COVID-19 lockdown, 80 people created a unique isolation bubble on the Normand Baltic ship off the Taranaki coast. They were repairing the undersea pipeline supplying 20% of NZ’s gas. It was a world-first – a gas pipeline had never been repaired this way underwater and certainly not with COVID-19 restrictions. A year in the planning, the project’s multiple innovations spanned engineering science, technology, process, human resources and stakeholder engagement. Completed successfully and safely, a week ahead of schedule, OMV has created a bank of learnings for global initiatives of this nature. Check out this video:

The pipeline feeds 40 per cent of the country’s natural gas from the Pohokura Platform.