QPuzzles Wins October Gold Coast Business Excellence Award for Emerging and Micro Business
Gold Coast, Queensland — October 2024 – We are beyond excited to announce that QPuzzles has been awarded the prestigious October Gold Coast Business Excellence Award in the Emerging and Micro Business category! This honour acknowledges our commitment to producing premium, eco-friendly jigsaw puzzles that celebrate Australian artistry, cultural heritage, and sustainable craftsmanship and the people behind the art, design and photography.
As Australia’s largest puzzle manufacturer, this award recognises not only our growth and dedication but also our commitment to providing high-quality products that reflect the unique creativity from many businesses we support, found across our country.
Beginning With Our Story and Values
QPuzzles was founded on the belief that puzzles could bring people together while celebrating the beauty of Australia. As a photographer, Jaime Dormer had a passion for landscape photography and as an extension to his photographic prints, he wanted his images to appear in puzzles.
Jaime states, "We are a proud Australian-made company, deeply committed to our values of sustainability, community support, and quality. Every product we create is manufactured on the Gold Coast, where we employ local talent and use sustainable materials that reflect our respect for the environment."
Our puzzle collection features diverse themes that showcase Australia’s unique landscapes, wildlife, and the cultural richness of landscapes across the world. From breathtaking scenes of the outback to the intricate details of iconic places, our puzzles are crafted to resonate with Australians and international customers alike.
Beyond puzzles, we’ve expanded our offerings to include coasters and placemats, ensuring our customers can create beautiful, functional pieces in various forms for their art to be enjoyed.
Expanding Possibilities with Our White-Label and Wholesale Services
One of the unique aspects of our business is our white-label and wholesale services, which have been expanding quietly yet significantly. This service allows talented Australian photographers, artists, digital designers, illustrators and Indigenous creators to have their artwork featured on high-quality jigsaw puzzles and other products, providing them with a new medium to showcase their creativity for their own business ventures.
We work with these creators to ensure their designs are faithfully reproduced on products that meet our stringent standards for quality and sustainability. Many of our customer creators, who often already have sales outlets in galleries, gift stores, and other retail environments, have leveraged our white-label service to broaden their product ranges. These partnerships allow artists and photographers reach new audiences, taking their unique stories and styles to puzzle enthusiasts across Australia and beyond. Making their art accessible to everyone in new formats.
An Ideal Solution for Corporate Gifting
In addition to supporting individual photographers and creators, our white-label service also serves corporate clients seeking custom, memorable gifts and promotional products. Companies add their logos and custom imagery to our puzzles, creating promotional items that leave a lasting impression on their clients and employees. These personalised puzzles are popular for corporate events, employee gifts, and brand promotions, serving as unique and thoughtful gifts that continue to promote the company long after the initial presentation and are a huge part of our business.
Our eCommerce Store and Thriving Social Media Community
While we’re thrilled to be growing our wholesale products and services, we’re equally dedicated to connecting directly with puzzle lovers through our eCommerce store. Here, customers can browse a wide range of products featuring themes that celebrate Australia’s landscapes, art and design, and cultural icons from all over the world. We offer puzzles in a variety of sizes and levels of complexity, ensuring that there’s something for everyone, from young children to seasoned puzzlers.
We also have a Design Your Own Puzzle (Coaster and Placemat Sets) that is hugely popular with our customers wanting a personalised gift that becomes a wonderful heirloom activity they can gift.
Our social media community has become a lively and supportive space where followers enjoy seeing the behind the scenes view of wonderful art and photography being made into puzzles. We are now actively engaged across 7 social media platforms keeping our activities on the pulse of what is new, fresh, and wonderful at QPuzzles!
Our @QClubhouse Group on Facebook is emerging as a safe place for our follower audience to share their puzzle experiences, enjoy sneak peeks at new designs, and participate in seasonal promotions as well as monthly competitions to win a puzzle for themselves. We value the feedback and engagement from our community members, whose enthusiasm for our products continues to inspire us.
The Meaning Behind the Award
Winning the Gold Coast Business Excellence Award in the Emerging and Micro Business category is a tremendous milestone for QPuzzles. This recognition represents the hard work and passion that our team pours into every product, and it validates our commitment to sustainability, local employment, Australian Made and the Australian arts.
Founder/Director, Jaime Dormer, shared his thoughts on the achievement:
“We are incredibly honoured to receive this award, which highlights our mission to bring sustainable, high-quality puzzles to the market. It’s a testament to the support we’ve received from our community and our commitment to growth.”
Looking Forward to 2025
As we continue to grow, we’re excited to expand our product offerings, strengthen our partnerships, and explore new opportunities with new business across Australia and abroad. We are grateful to our customers, partners, and the wonderful artists, designers and photographers who trust us to bring their artwork to life on puzzles.
Together, we’re building a company that celebrates Australia’s beauty, culture, and innovation. This award is not just an acknowledgment of our past successes and how much we have grown, but also a motivation to push forward into the future with renewed passion.
Thank you for being part of the QPuzzles journey! To explore our products and learn more about our services, visit our website at qpuzzles.com.au and join us on social media to stay connected.
About the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards
The Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards were established in 1996 and have grown into the region’s most esteemed business awards, celebrating innovation, leadership, and business excellence.
We want to thank the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards and their sponsors for this recognition! Winning the Emerging Business Award means so much to our entire team, especially as we continue to grow as a small business. Thank you to everyone involved in making these awards possible and for supporting local businesses like ours!
The Awards seek to inspire pride and success within the local business community, showcasing the Gold Coast as a prominent business hub. For more information about the Awards, visit goldcoastbusinessawards.com.au.
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