Powercor Grampians Pyrenees Business Awards
AME Systems Takes Major Prize

AME Systems’ Christian Carthew and Geoff Hateley are pictured with ACE Radio director Rowly Paterson, left. The progressive company won Business of the Year and the manufacturing award employing five or more staff, presented by Mr Paterson. Powercor’s Hugo Armstrong presented the Business of the Year award.

Ararat manufacturing company AME Systems has won its second Powercor Grampians Pyrenees Business of the Year Award. The industry leader also won the manufacturing award for a business with five or more employees.

Powecor corporate affairs manager Hugo Armstrong announced the 2003 winners to a packed Ararat Performing Arts Centre which included special guests Minister for Small Business and information and Technology Marsha Thomson and Member for Ripon Joe Helper.

AME Systems won the major award ahead of The Vines Café and Bar and Green Eggs. The company is a leading Australian owned manufacturer of quality electrical wiring harness, power and signal distribution systems for heavy transport, automobiles, military equipment, special purpose vehicles, motorcycles, marine craft, aircraft and fixed electrical plant.

AME is quality certified to ISO standards and is recognized for its reliability and quality of product and commitment to win-win electrical solutions. It is a customer-focused business with a continuous improvement culture.

With 235 full time staff and five part time staff, the company is committed to continuous learning and improvement, team and individual staff development and the principles of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

The company has a focus on quality service and product on which its business survives. Strong growth in a diminishing market plalce, a commitment to innovation and just-in-time delivery and the adoption of appropriate technology along with a solutions-based approach to customer needs sets this business apart in the region.

AME also shares its training principles with other businesses.

AME Systems has a proud history of success, being a worthy winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Bank Award for Manufacturing. In the 2000 Powercor Grampians Pyrenees Business Achievement Awards, AME Systems won the Manufacturing over 20 employees category and also collected the prestigious Business of the Year title.

Grampians Pyrenees Regional Development Board executive officer and coordinator of the awards’ organizing committee Mark Hogan said he was absolutely delighted with the entire event.

“Everything has gone extremely well and the quality of the businesses entered was perfectly reflected in the high standard of the winners,” Mark said.

“Several winners were former city residents who were corporate people or owned a business in Melbourne and moved to the region for a better lifestyle,” he said.

“And they were full of praise for the way they had been embraced by the community here which from our point of view was fantastic.”

(The Weekly Advertiser November 20th 2003)