RED Robot, an innovative design and manufacturing business that has taken portable photo booths into the social media age, is the 2015 Telstra ACT Business of the Year.
Founders and directors Duncan Amos and Phil Preston took their first steps towards creating a successful export business back in 2008 when starting to build portable booths in a Canberra garage.
Running their own photo booth rental company at the time, the pair saw the opportunity to create a new generation of portable and durable photo booths for rental start-up operators, existing operators and commercial clients attracted to customised and branded models.
Boosted by an ACT Government Innovation grant in 2012 to develop a prototype, Red Robot has kicked on to become Australia’s largest commercial photo booth supplier and an exporter and winner of design awards.
Phil Preston says: “Innovation is imperative to us leading our industry. As a result, we prioritise innovation in every aspect of our business from product design through to internal processes.”
Red Robot has built a reputation for delivering customised photo stations in traditional or modular form for brands and marketing firms looking for customer engagement via social media photo sharing.
Its expertise won it a BBC Worldwide contract last year to build a TARDIS photo booth for the Australian launch of the latest Doctor Who TV series.
Integrating software and a simple touch screen interface, users could post their images – and expand the Doctor Who brand on social media – to friends on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and email.
“The photo booth industry is niche, young and growing rapidly. So our vision is to lead the industry into an evolution of operating smarter, being more adaptable and approaching bigger markets,” Phil Preston says.
“Our goal is to provide the technology, sharing our knowledge and concepts, so that people can operate a photo booth hire business with less hassle, in less time while reducing costs and increasing profits.”
Other winners of the 2015 Telstra ACT Business Awards named tonight at QT Canberra include novated car leasing business alliance Leasing, property and construction industry consultants Barmco Mana Partnership, and Synergy Group Australia, specialists in accounting and consulting services for government agencies.
Winners of the Telstra ACT Business Awards will now proceed to the 2015 Telstra Australian Business Awards that will be announced in Sydney on 20 August.
For more information about the Awards or to nominate for the 2016 Telstra Australian Business Awards, visit telstrabusinessawards.com or call 1800AWARDS between 9am and 7pm AEST Monday to Friday.
The Awards were established in 1992 to celebrated brilliant Australian small and medium businesses.
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