Resilience pays off for events superstar Untitled Group, as it sweeps The Smart50 2023

The Australian SME community’s best and brightest came out in style on Thursday night to celebrate The Smart50 Awards 2023.

Since 2007, the Awards have counted down the 50 fastest-growing Australian small and medium businesses and awarded a selection of category awards to those innovating and supporting their community and customers in exciting ways.

The overall winner was Untitled Group, with a remarkable 597.4% growth average over the past three financial years. In a little bit of a sweep, Untitled Group, founded by Nicholas Greco, Filippo Palermo, Christian Serrao and Michael Christidis, also took home the Marketing Award this year.

It’s a fantastic story: an independent events company hit hard by pandemic lockdowns, that had to explore new markets and revenue options. This tenacity earned Untitled Group the Resilience Award at last year’s Smart50 Awards 2022, and on Thursday night it was clear that this resilience paid off in a major way.

Smart50 brands raked in a collective $495,051,872 in revenue and created 608 jobs*, in FY2023.

Untitled Group wasn’t the only big performer on the night. Here are the category award winners at The Smart50 Awards 2023. Read more about in Eloise Keating’s full Category Awards wrap.

• Former The Block fan faves Alisa and Lysandra Fraser’s home, hair, body and skincare brand al.ive body took out the Rising Star Award.
• The Resilience Award, sponsored by Fifo Capital, was won by StudioHawk, whose founder Harry Sanders survived homelessness to build his powerhouse SEO agency.
• Advanced Mobility Analytics Group, founded by Dr Simon Washington, Dr Shimul Haque and Dr Tarek Sayed took home the Innovation Award, sponsored by BlueRock.
• Olympia Yarger’s Goterra won the Sustainability Award.
• Melissa Pain’s pilate sock and activewear brand MoveActive won the Retail Award.
• Lisa Jones SHE-com women’s branding support network took home the Community Award.
• Association of Professional Builders was chosen by SmartCompany as the winner of the Smart and Lasting Award, for its continuous growth (three consecutive Smart50s! and exemplification of the Smart50 values of resilience, innovation and community.)

*The sum of Smart50 listees’ responses to the question: “How many new employees have joined your team in the last 12 months?”