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19 February, 2022
Babinda’s businesses keep on excelling
PROVING that once again, Babinda is a small town that punches above its weight, SPAR Babinda has won three awards in SPAR Australia’s 2021 annual Retail Awards Program.
SPAR Australia held a Virtual Awards night on Tuesday, October 26 2021, with the two main awards being ‘SPAR Store’ and ‘SPAR Express Store’ of the Year.
The Awards are designed to reward and recognise consistent achievement and performance throughout the year, with SPAR Babinda coming away with SPAR Store of the Year 2021.
The Awards night also included ‘department’ awards: SPAR Grocery, SPAR Express Grocery, SPAR Dairy/Freezer, SPAR Express Dairy/Freezer, SPAR Fresh Food, Spar Express Fresh Food, and Food To Go.
SPAR Babinda also won two department awards - the SPAR Grocery Award and the SPAR Fresh Food Award.
It was an outstanding achievement considering there are more than 150 SPAR stores in Australia, across Queensland and New South Wales.
The owners of SPAR Babinda, Helen and Diane Fantoni, were quick to point out that they are just one of several Babinda businesses that excelled in 2021.
Babinda Springs was named the winner of Australia’s “Best Natural Spring Water Brand” at the 2021 Australian Enterprise Awards. In addition, the Babinda Bakery once again topped The Cairns Post’s ‘favourite bakery in the region’ poll.
The Babinda Meat Mart also earned a major award at the Australian Meat Industry Council’s annual Tropical Region Sausage King, Best Butchers Burger and Smallgoods competition, winning the Leg Ham on the Bone category with their Traditional Smoked Ham.
That is a lot of excellence coming from the ‘sunshine in the rain’ that is Babinda.
