BizBriefs

The Education Expo, held at Rosehill Gardens earlier this year, has been judged the winner of the Australian Marketing Award at the Marketing Executives International Awards ... Free legal services are provided to homeless and disadvantaged people at Parramatta Mission through a program run by the NSW Attorney-General's Department ... The Laugh Garage, upstairs on the corner of Church and Phillip streets, is looking for new premises as its lease runs out this month ... Sydney Olympic Park (SOP) will have 687 hotel rooms (compared to Parramatta's 1497) when Accor's Sofitel and Formule 1 hotels are completed in 2008; joining the company's two other properties at SOP ... Coca-Cola Amatil expects to make an announcement soon confirming its acquisition of the Bluetongue Brewery, to boost its beverage market; the company could build a brewery in Western Sydney ... Parramatta LGA's 24 licensed premises, with a total of555 poker machines, had a turnover of $623 million.