Businessman and Adelaide Crows chairman Rob Chapman will be the key speaker at the Business Index lunch – an event to reveal South Australia’s top 100 companies.
The event on 28 October at the Adelaide Convention Centre will be one of the first opportunities for South Australia’s business community to hear Chapman’s vision as head of the State Government’s investment attraction agency (booking details below).
The agency, set up in the Department for State Development, is administering a $15 million fund designed to attract new and growth industries to SA to build the economy and employment.
Last week, InDaily revealed that a leading European trade and economic adviser had been headhunted as chief executive of Chapman’s agency. Welsh global economic expert Mike Hnyda will take up the post on 1 October.
The inaugural South Australian Business Index, supported by Prescott Securities, the University of South Australia and the Adelaide Convention Centre, is a ranking based on data.
The index will show the top 100 companies in South Australia as ranked by research from a team of analysts at Prescott Securities.
The team is now in the process of of gathering quantitative and qualitative information direct from companies and verifying it via a number of trusted methods, including publicly-published records.
The top-ranking companies will be announced at the 28 October event, with Chapman to outline his ideas for attracting investment via the new fund.
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To be eligible for the Index, a company has to be at least 50 per cent owned by South Australians or, for listed companies, they must have a head office in South Australia.
Business Index partner UniSA will support the top ranked company with an education package through its Centre for Business Growth, which is dedicated to helping small to medium sized businesses find the right strategies to grow.
