Stuck On You won the top honour at last night’s 2019 Deakin University Geelong Business Excellence Awards.
The Breakwater-based children’s label was named Business of the Year after earlier winning the awards’ Digital Engagement category.
Stuck On You describes itself as the “original name-label company, trusted for over two decades and wholly family owned“.
“From name labels, shoe labels and clothing stamps to personalised lunch boxes, school bags, pyjamas and gifts, Stuck On You has your family covered,” the company says in its business awards submission.
“Never waste time and money on lost property again!
“Our state-of-the-art website makes it easy and enjoyable for you to design your own products by adding a name and choosing from a stunning array of fonts and icons.”
Carrie Felton came up with the idea for Stuck On You in 1995 when trying to organise the items of her then-young children.
She approached a local printer asking for name labels to attach on the gear of son Charlie.
Realising he was too young to read, she asked the printer to put Charlie’s name on an image of an aeroplane because he loved planes and his dad was a pilot.
The experience served as the inspiration for Carrie to establish Stuck On You.
“Now, 24 years later, we don’t just offer you one or two little icons to sit alongside your child’s name. We offer you more than 50 icons, each one lovingly designed by our in-house graphic designers,” the company says.
After more than two decades of growth, Stuck On You now sells products around the world from its company headquarters in Breakwater.
The company has customers in nearly 130 countries, with the UK and the USA two of its biggest markets overseas.
Stuck On You initially began operations in New South Wales before moving to Geelong in 2000 and subsequently expanding its workforce and operations dramatically.
