GD 008, Settlement City Port Macquarie,NSW, Australia 2444 P 02 6583 8177 Contact the store for public holiday hours. Information on Port Macquarie Our Terminal and FacilitiesDrink beer and save the Great Barrier Reef. Get a night's sleep and provide care for a sick koala.Two start-ups with a conscience, The Good Beer Co and Koala Mattress, are doing their bit for our Australian icons. James Grugeon started The Good Beer Co last November and crowdfunded its first brew, the Great Barrier Beer, via Indiegogo."If we sell a lot of the beer, we will be raising money for the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the work that they are doing with tourism operators and local communities up and down the reef, including protection of the coral which is currently being bleached tragically," Grugeon says.As the owner of Australia's first social enterprise beer company, Grugeon's aim is to take the message to a much wider audience. "Because through the impact of having a beer, people will start to understand that this is something that they need to get involved in."
Fifty per cent of the profits from sales of Grugeon's craft beer will go to the Australian Marine Conservation Society. "We'll give at least 50 per cent of the profits back. We expect it will probably be more than that. And that's really because we are constituted as a social enterprise to raise money for good causes." Koala Mattress is another Australian start-up doing social good."We launched in late November," says Dany Milham, one of the company's founders. "My background is in setting up social enterprises."While starting the company, the founders looked at what causes to back and settled on the koala. "It just worked so well with our branding. It went hand in hand."When someone buys a mattress, they get a certificate of adoption from the Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie and that goes towards 12 months of food and care for a sick koala. It covers the koala's rehab process and release back into the wild.Milham says the Australian-made mattress is "very breathable" and ideal for hot summers.
We think it's about building a sustainable business that is able to raise the profile of some really important causes Australians care about, like the Great Barrier Reef. People who order a mattress in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane can get it within four hours.Milham says Koala Mattress is growing month by month. "We are on track to make $12 million in 12 months."The mattress is available all over the country. Koala Mattress is now setting its sights on international markets, including China and Japan. "But we don't want to bite off more than we can chew."Milham says, as the company grows, it is looking at other native animals it can help in Australia. The Good Beer Co's Grugeon says the business plans to partner with at least five craft beer companies for future ventures. "We are looking to have a range of five different beers and, over a period of three years, we will raise at least $100,000 for each one of those five causes."We think it's about building a sustainable business that is able to raise the profile of some really important causes Australians care about, like the Great Barrier Reef.
But also raise a good, long-term sustainable income stream for our cause partners."Grugeon, who has a background in corporate social responsibility, aims to build what he calls the "good beer movement". His company is building a database of people who are interested in investing in his new products. Key to the strategy is compelling and interactive digital marketing and social media, plus offline events like the Sounds Good beer and music festival."We're looking, in our first year, for at least $500,000 worth of beer sales. Now we may exceed that, and we haven't actually finalised the plan for this financial year at this stage because we are just bringing on board our second beer," Grugeon says. Steven Bowman, managing director of Conscious Governance, says the notion of social ventures or social enterprises has been developed by people who want to do good by doing business, or do business by doing good."These are not mutually exclusive. Corporate social responsibility as a philosophy has given way to a more visceral understanding that we are all connected, and if we wish to do great business and create a difference in the world, then we need to create this as part of our business."
He sees The Good Beer Co and Koala Mattress as examples of Australian enterprises wanting to "do good business by doing good".Bowman, an internationally recognised strategy and leadership adviser to chief executives and boards, says when businesses start to take the point of view that they should be functioning from benevolent capitalism, things will start to change even faster."If business leaders choose to align the capitalism maxim with the maxim of a sustainable future for people and planet, there are still abundant possibilities and revenues to be actualised – revenues made in ways that generate a sustainable future rather than damage the planet and endanger our future. Australia is leading the way with many great organisations starting to embrace this way of doing business."Follow MySmallBusiness on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.It looks like you are using an old version of your browser and some features of our website might not work properly. For the best online experience, we recommend you update to the latest version.
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