Orange Pie Company only started nine months ago but its already making its way in the pie world.
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Ben Coster and Mitchell Brown started the business last year and soon after opening the shop next to Harvey Norman in the Orange Homemakers Centre they started hiring staff to meet demand.
Recently they won awards for five out of six pies they entered in Australia's Best Pie Awards.
They won a silver award for their Small Acres Cyder pulled pork pie, and they won bronze awards for a beef, mushroom and Cumulus Shiraz, plain Jane mince , chicken pumpkin and sage, and butter chicken pies.
Mr Coster said to receive a silver award each pie had to receive 80 per cent from the judges and they needed 70 per cent for a bronze award.
"It's a very strict judging process, we are very lucky to get what we did, it's a brutal competition," he said.
Name change
Don Ball Mechanical Repairs is changing its name.
Business owner Mark Jacobs said from July 1 the business will be known as Orange Auto Repairs.
"I've owned the business for 14 years so I thought it was time for a name change since Don Ball is no longer part of the workshop," Mr Jacobs said.
"He retired 14 years ago, I bought the business then."
The name change comes after the business relocated premises last year to Dalton Street.
In the running
The team from Diesel and Blue Doggie Day Care and Grooming is set to swap their work clothes for formal wear when they head to Star Casino for the for the Australian Small Business Champion Awards on July 31.
Business owner Danielle Haase said she was delighted the business was named as a finalist.
"We've only been open 20 months," Miss Haase said.
She said she started the business due to a gap in the market for dog daycare services.
"Then we started a taxi service because a lot of customers here are working shift work," Miss Haase said.
She said the business also now does grooming, including colouring, and in November the business introduced puppy classes.
The classes include a classic puppy training class but a cafe class for people who want to teach their dogs to be calm in public is also popular.
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