2016 AFR Most Innovative Companies List
WINNERS! Evolve Group Wins Best Product and ranked #33 on the 2016 Most Innovative Companies list #afrmostinnovative
Design and manufacturing firm Evolve Group has been named in the Australian Financial Reviews Top 50 Most Innovative Companies, and was also awarded the coveted Best Product Innovation for their work with inventive beehive system Flow Hive.
Managing Director Ty Hermans said he is very excited about the win and what this means for the Evolve Group as well as the design and manufacturing industry in Australia.
“It is a great feeling to be featured on the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies list and is a reflection of the hard work we put into making sure we are delivering true innovation for our clients,” Mr Hermans said.
“Our team lives and breathes innovation and this mind set is what’s helped us to continue to grow and deliver unique products to market.”
Evolve Group was responsible for the design for manufacture and design optimisation of the Flow Hive system as well as the end to end fulfilment of the global orders, all from their product development facility on Brisbane’s Southside.
Mr Hermans said Flow Hive is just one example of the results they have achieved by embracing innovation and making it a core element of their business and encouraging a culture of innovation in the workplace.
“Australia has such a rich history of innovation, and we are fortunate enough to at the coal face working with great Australian companies to bring some of the most cutting-edge ideas and products to life,” Mr Hermans said.
“We work closely with our clients right from the initial concepting through to the design process and manufacturing, and final stage of successfully launching to market.”
As a result of having such a hands-on approach with their clients, Evolve has an impressive record of successfully launching all of the products they have partnered on to market.
Keen disrupters, Evolve Group have also utilised innovative tactics to launch products through crowdfunding campaigns to build consumer excitement for new products.
Evolve Group was established in 2006 by Ty Hermans, a 33-year-old Brisbane-based inventor. Evolve won two awards at the 2015 Good Design Awards and were listed as one of BRW’s 50 most innovative companies of 2014.
Deck blocks were introduced 25 years ago in the United States and since then instant foundation concrete blocks have been embraced worldwide for creating strong and stable foundations for both professional and DIY projects.
The Evolve Group set out to solve the challenge of designing an instant foundation system to replace heavy concrete blocks used in the floating foundation deck block system.
This year, The Evolve Group developed the TuffBlock: an ultra durable, ultra lightweight (20 times lighter than concrete blocks), low profile and 100 per cent recyclable polyolefin foundation block. An individual TuffBlock can support over 770 kilograms and weights under one kilogram.
View the full list here of BRW Most Innovative Companies 2014.