Corporate Body

AWA Limited (1988 - )

From
1988
Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia
Functions
Telecommunications
Alternative Names
  • AWA (Also known as)
Reference No
ABN 35 000 005 916
Location
Broadbeach, Queensland

Summary

In 1988 the Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. changed its name, becoming AWA Limited. It had a complex history of evolution and change from that time. From 2014 provided independent technology service solutions for large organisations, ICT and AV vendors, resellers, distributors and outsourcers with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Newcastle plus a national network of more than 700 service agents.

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AWA had the reputation of being Australia's premier defence and communications company. It became evident rapidly, that the company had lost its way, through failure to invest in leadership, skills, research, technology, products and services. It had also suffered considerable losses through Forex trading - announced just as MD appointment was made. Unsurprisingly, the MD's role became one of salvaging what was saveable. That involved,
examining all business units, closing many, merging others for sale and generally doing anything that might help reposition the company and its remaining business units. The AWA Board showed no interest in taking AWA off the market to enable orderly reform and a return to profitability. Arguably, that would have been the wiser course, as demonstrated by later events. [Source: Peter Crawford CV, c2026]

Timeline

 ? - 1913 Australian Wireless Company
 1900 - 1913 Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd
       1913 - 1988 Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd (AWA)
             1988 - AWA Limited

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