For more than 20 years, as well as offering recognition, the awards provide the opportunity to benchmark success and gain expert advice on how businesses can continue to prosper.
All winners bar the People's Choice will be picked by judges after they interview the nominees.
There are six excellence categories and six business categories. The supreme winner will be chosen from the winners of the excellence categories.
Tickets to the awards go on sale on Wednesday.
The event is on October 9 and will be headlined by singer Annie Crummer.
Crummer, who was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, was most recently a musical mentor for prisoners in the Māori TV series Songs from the Inside in 2014 and performed in Australian production We Will Rock You in 2019.
She is currently working on her third album, Project Annie C.
Excellence categories
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology: Creative Arts & Design Award
• Fineline Design Agency
• Lakes Performing Arts Centre
• Redwoods Treewalk
• Portico Gallery Rotorua
Scion: Innovation & Technology Award
• Local Gecko Productions
• The Appearance Clinic
• Te Arawa Fisheries Group
• Ka Pai Kai Rotorua
• Salt + Tonic
Deloitte: Hospitality and Retail Award
• Rotorua TOP 10 Holiday Park
• Four Square Ngongotaha
• Prince's Gate Hotel
• Pullman Rotorua
• McLeods Booksellers
The Shine Collective: Manaakitanga Tourism Award
• Secret Spot Hot Tubs Rotorua
• Rotorua Rafting
• Waimangu Volcanic Valley
• Rotorua Canopy Tours
• Whakarewarewa - The Living Maori Village
Pukeroa Oruawhata Holdings: Primary Manufacturing and Building Award
• Top Gear Rotorua Limited
• BOP Plumbing & Gas
• Evolve Construction
Holland Beckett: Professional Services Award
• Futureproof Concepts Limited
• Ranolf Pharmacy
• QualGroup
• Chemwash Rotorua
• New Zealand Home Loans - Rotorua
• The Shine Collective
Business categories
Rotorua Economic Development: Kaitiakitanga Environmental Sustainability & Climate Change Award
• Rotorua Rafting
• Waimangu Volcanic Valley
• Rotorua Canopy Tours
• Whakarewarewa Thermal Village Tours Limited
ACC: Workplace Safety Award
• Hayes International
• Pedersen Group
• InfraCore Limited
• Redwoods Treewalk
• Chemwash Rotorua
EMA: Employer of the Year Award
• Matai Resturant Rotorua
• InfraCore Limited
• New Zealand Home Loans - Rotorua
• Peppers on the Point, Lake Rotorua
Ministry of Social Development: Not for Profit & Social Enterprise Award
• Multicultural Rotorua
• Rotoiti 15 Trust
• Rotorua Pacific Islands Development Charitable Trust
• Rotorua Community Hospice
• Ka Pai Kai Rotorua
BNZ: Bilingual Business Award
• WERA Aotearoa Charitable Trust
• Rotoiti 15 Trust
• Kura Kārearea
NZME: People's Choice Award
• McLeods Booksellers
• Indian Star Restaurant
• S.F-Ink Kanohi me Tinana
• Ka Pai Kai Rotorua Charitable Trust
• Profiles Gym