Staff at a successful east Auckland business are still on a high after coming away winners from the recent 2024 2degrees Auckland Business Awards.
Howick’s Alxemy Business Solutions Ltd was named Best Emerging Business at the South and East Regional Gala Dinner staged at Cordis Auckland on December 4.
“With all 41 finalists in attendance, it was an evening filled with glitz, glamour, and celebration,” the organisers say.
“The winners and finalists were not just exceptional in their respective industries, but they were also shining examples of what it takes to succeed in the highly competitive business landscape.”
Alxemy directors and principal consultants Terrence Perumal and Stephan Blumenberg told the Times the competition’s entrants had to provide evidence of their business growth, future strategy and cashflow.
“We’ve never been to an awards ceremony,” Blumenberg says.
“It was our HR manager Hilde [Marais] who thought of entering. It was quite a big team effort to get all the info together and everything and get us there.”
Perumal says going into the competition he thought the business had a chance to win.
“We thought we’d be celebrating anyway as we’d had a couple of other wins. Then we saw the little videos done of each company and I thought it must be one of them, but low and behold.”
He says their team feels proud to have won the award and it’s all due to their effort and hard work.
“Each one feels proud in their own way because they’ve contributed to this. We also have seven people in Christchurch and one in Sydney.
“It’s a sense of pride, the feeling that Alxemy won this, but there’s always the contribution of many in the team who put the effort in.”
To explain what Alxemy does in simple terms, Blumenberg says it works with payroll workforce management and human resources software.
“We form the conduit between the software vendor and customer and help them implement software.
“We test it and help with the whole software implementation lifecycle at any stage or at all stages.
“We also recently partnered with some software vendors and we resell and consult on and implement. It’s more a technology and advisory practice.”
While still celebrating the award, Blumenberg says the business’s staff “just think we do our jobs”.
“We’ve been around for three-and-a-half years and have had really strong growth, more than double each year up to now.
“Halfway through the year things slowed down quite a bit. Everyone was feeling it with the economy and no one was signing up for massive projects.
“It was a pretty challenging second half of the year, but I think what makes us different is how we work together with our team.
“It’s not top-down. We all openly talk about what’s going on and get people’s feedback and ideas. Next year is looking up.”
