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Wesfarmers
Wesfarmers Limited is an Australian conglomerate, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It has interests predominantly in Australia and New Zealand, operating in retail, chemical, fertiliser, industrial and safety products. With revenue of A$30.8 billion in the 2020 financial year, it is one of Australia's largest companies by revenue. Wesfarmers is also one of the largest private employers in Australia, with approximately 107,000 employees. Wesfarmers was founded in 1914 as a co-operative to provide services and merchandise to Western Australian farmers. It was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1984 and grew into a major retail conglomerate. History Westralian Farmers Co‐operative Limited was formed in 1914 as a cooperative company by the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of Western Australia, to acquire the assets of the West Australian Producers' Union, to be focused on the provision of services and merchandise to the Western Australian rural commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesfarmers 1930s Letterhead
Wesfarmers Limited is an Australian conglomerate, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It has interests predominantly in Australia and New Zealand, operating in retail, chemical, fertiliser, industrial and safety products. With revenue of A$30.8 billion in the 2020 financial year, it is one of Australia's largest companies by revenue. Wesfarmers is also one of the largest private employers in Australia, with approximately 107,000 employees. Wesfarmers was founded in 1914 as a co-operative to provide services and merchandise to Western Australian farmers. It was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1984 and grew into a major retail conglomerate. History Westralian Farmers Co‐operative Limited was formed in 1914 as a cooperative company by the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of Western Australia, to acquire the assets of the West Australian Producers' Union, to be focused on the provision of services and merchandise to the Western Australian rural communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Target Australia
Target Australia Pty Ltd (formerly Lindsay's and Lindsay's Target, formerly stylised as Target. and doing business as Target and Target Australia) is a department store chain owned by Australian retail conglomerate Wesfarmers. Target stocks clothing, cosmetics, homewares, electronics, books, and toys selling both in-store and online. The company's head office is located in the Melbourne suburb of Williams Landing and opened in 2018. Despite the identical logo, name and similar type of outlets, Target Australia carries no direct relation or affiliation to the American big box retailer Target Corporation. History Beginnings as Lindsay's In 1926, George Lindsay and Alex McKenzie opened their first store in Geelong selling dress fabrics, bedding and furnishings. Lindsay began his retail empire five years earlier, running a store in Ouyen, Victoria, but moved to Geelong to increase the opportunity for growth. The company progressively established stores throughout Victoria, ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kmart Australia
Kmart Australia Limited ( /ˈkeɪmɑːrt/ ''KAY-mart'', doing business as Kmart, Kmart Australia, Kmart New Zealand and Kmart Australia And New Zealand and stylised as ''Kmart'') is an Australian chain of department stores owned by the Kmart Group division of Wesfarmers. The company operates 323 stores across Australia and New Zealand, with its head office located in Mulgrave, Melbourne. Kmart Group, the department store division of Wesfarmers, also owns and operates Target Australia and online retailer Catch.com.au. History Kmart Australia Limited was born out of a joint venture between G.J Coles & Coy Limited (Coles) and the S.S. Kresge Company which was the company that operated Kmart stores in the United States. Kresge owned 51% of the common stock in the company and Coles owned the remaining 49%, together they began to develop Kmart stores in Australia in 1968. The first store opened in Burwood East a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria on 30 April 1969 with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunnings Warehouse
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware chain. The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. Bunnings was founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1886, by two brothers who had emigrated from England. Initially, a limited company focused on sawmilling, it became a public company in 1952 and subsequently expanded into the retail sector, purchasing several hardware stores. Bunnings began to expand into other states in the 1990s and opened its first warehouse-style store in Melbourne in 1994. As of 2020, the chain has 375 stores and over 30,000 employees. Bunnings has a market share of around 50 percent in the Australian Do-It-Yourself hardware market, with competing chains including Mitre 10, Home Hardware and various independent retailers such as Agora Marketplace and Total Tools around Australia. Bunnings runs community events outside or in its stores, including sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Scott (businessman)
Robert "Rob" Geoffrey Scott (born 5 August 1969) is an Australian businessman and former national champion and national representative rower. Since 2017 he has been Managing Director and Chief Executive of Wesfarmers, the Perth-headquartered publicly listed industrial and retail conglomerate, which in 2016 was Australia's largest company by revenue and Australia's largest employer. As a sweep-oared heavyweight rower Scott was a national champion, an eight-time crewman in West Australian King's Cup eights and a four-time Australian representative at World Rowing Championships. He is a dual Olympian oarsman who won a silver medal in a coxless pair at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Early life and education Scott was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1969. His parents were teachers and he spent time in Kalgoorlie and Dumbleyung before completing his schooling at the public co-educational high school Rossmoyne Senior High School in Perth where he was introduced to rowing. He commence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flybuys (Australia)
Flybuys is an Australian customer loyalty program equally owned by the Coles Group and Wesfarmers through joint venture Loyalty Pacific. Members can accrue points by shopping at Coles Group brands (Coles Supermarkets, Coles Express, Liquorland, etc.), certain Wesfarmers brands ( Kmart, Target, Bunnings Warehouse, Officeworks, catch.com.au, Kleenheat, etc.), and some third-party partners like HCF Insurance and Optus. Points can then be redeemed for money off purchases at Coles Supermarkets, Kmart, and Target stores (2,000 points gives an discount), as well as holidays (through ''Flybuys Travel'') and household goods (from the ''Flybuys Rewards Store''). It is one of Australia's largest loyalty programs, with 8.6 million members in 6.6 million households. Fifteen Flybuys cards are scanned every second on average in Australia. History Flybuys began in 1994 as a joint venture of Shell, Coles Myer and National Australia Bank. The program met with substantial interest at la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSBP
CSBP Limited is an Australian fertiliser and chemical company based in Kwinana, Western Australia. It is a subsidiary of WesCEF, which in turn is part of the industrials division of the Wesfarmers conglomerate. Current operations CSBP produces a number of products for the agricultural, mining, and industrial sectors, including fertilisers, industrial chemicals, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and wood-plastic composites. It has two subsidiaries – Australian Vinyls (based in Laverton, Victoria) and ModWood Technologies (based in Campbellfield, Victoria). CSBP additionally holds joint ownership of Queensland Nitrate Project (QNP), a joint venture with Dyno Nobel. CSBP has its head office in Kwinana. It has a soil and plant laboratory in Bibra Lake and regional fertiliser distribution centres in Albany, Bunbury, Esperance and Geraldton. There are also regional fertiliser depots in Corrigin, Dalwallinu, Goomalling, Merredin, Tambellup, and Wagin. History CSBP has its or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chaney
Michael Alfred Chaney (born 15 April 1950) is an Australian businessman and former chancellor of the University of Western Australia. Early life Chaney was born in Perth on 15 April 1950. He was the third-youngest of seven children born to Frederick Charles Chaney, who was a minister in the Menzies government and Lord Mayor of Perth. His brothers included Frederick Michael Chaney, who was also a federal government minister, and John Chaney, a judge on the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Chaney attended Aquinas College, Perth, and the University of Western Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in geology in 1972 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1980. He attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1992. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Australia. Career Chaney worked as a petroleum geologist for eight years. His first job in geology was with Burmah Oil, where he worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officeworks
Officeworks is a chain of Australian office supplies stores operated under parent company Wesfarmers. The company was established in 1994 by Coles Myer, which became Coles Group before it was acquired by Wesfarmers. Its head office is located in Bentleigh East, Melbourne. The store concept adopted by Officeworks was based on the US chain Office Depot. , in Australia there are 4 stores in ACT, 51 stores in NSW, 1 store in NT, 33 stores in QLD, 10 stores in SA, 2 stores in TAS, 50 stores in VIC, and 16 stores in WA. History Formation to 2008 The first Officeworks store opened in the inner city suburb of Richmond in Melbourne on 16 June 1994. IT retailer Harris Technology, purchased by Coles Myer in 1999, became a subsidiary of Officeworks. Viking Australia (a subsidiary of Office Depot) was purchased by Coles Myer in December 2002 and was merged with Officeworks Direct to form Officeworks BusinessDirect, which then became Officeworks Business. In late 2006 Officeworks ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coles Supermarkets
Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Coles, is an Australian supermarket, retail and consumer services chain, headquartered in Melbourne as part of the Coles Group. Founded in 1914 in Collingwood by George Coles, Coles operates 807 supermarkets throughout Australia, including several now re-branded Bi-Lo Supermarkets. Coles has over 100,000 employees and accounts for around 27 per cent of the Australian market. Coles' large head office site in Melbourne's inner south-east has 4,000 employees of the workforce located inside. Coles Online is the company's online shopping ('click & collect' and home delivery) service. Between 1986 and 2006, Coles Supermarkets was a brand of Coles Myer Limited, later Coles Group Limited, prior to Wesfarmers purchasing Coles Group in 2007. It became a subsidiary of Coles Group again after Wesfarmers spun-off the business in November 2018. In 2020, Coles changed its slogan to "Value the Australian way". History George James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gascoyne Trading Company
Gascoyne Trading Company (GTC) was a transport company in Western Australia. It was established in 1924 by Keith Anderson and Charles Kingsford-Smith in Carnarvon. One of its early contracts was the mail run through the Gascoyne to Meekatharra. It expanded to serve industries between Perth and the Pilbara. GTC was a significant banana deliverer to markets in Perth. In 1950 it was purchased by Wesfarmers growing to become the largest transport operator in Western Australia. Until 1971 it held the sole rights for direct road transport between Carnarvon and Perth. In 1973 a joint venture was formed with Downard to enter the interstate freight forwarding market between Western Australia and Victoria. In 1985, GTC purchased a 50% shareholding in Total West from Mayne Nickless. In 1996, after taking full ownership of Total West, Wesfarmers merged it with GTC to form Wesfarmers Transport. In 2001 the business was sold to Toll Holdings The Toll Group is an Australian-based su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kleenheat Gas
Kleenheat is an Australian gas producer, retailer and distributor based in Perth, Western Australia. Kleenheat produces around 150,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) per year to service more than 240,000 customers nationally. The company also supplies liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the heavy-vehicle, power generation and industrial markets nationally through EVOL LNG. History Kleenheat Gas was established by Wesfarmers in 1956 under the leadership of then General Manager John Thomson, who raised the prospect of selling bottled gas with BP during a visit to London. He returned with an exclusive franchise agreement to supply LPG from BP's then-new Kwinana Oil Refinery. In September 1956, Kleenheat Gas became the first company to distribute bottled LPG and gas appliances to regional Western Australia. Demand for the convenience of gas was so great that 1500 appliances were sold before the first gas bottles were available. In 2013, Kleenheat Gas launched a natural gas reta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
