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They sell dining room and bedroom furniture as well. Nick Scali operate multiple showrooms and distribution centres across all states and territories in Australia. [2] In 2017 Nick Scali opened its first showroom in Auckland, New Zealand. [3] In November 2021, Nick Scali acquired Plush-Think Sofas Pty Ltd business from Greenlit Brands for $110 ...
The James Richardson Corporation, also going by the name James Richardson Group or JR/Group, is an Australian furniture, hospitality, real estate and retail corporation, headquartered in the Abbotsford suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is privately owned and employs approximately 2,300 people worldwide.
While the group primarily invests in commercial property assets, such as office towers [12] [13] [14] most of its recent growth has been in self-storage units, a sector buoyed by the storage needs of Australia's growing e-commerce industry. [15] In 2020, Abacus acquired Storage King Pty Ltd, buying the remaining $50m of shares. [16]
In April 1999, Freedom acquired the Guests and Andersons furniture chains for $22.4 million in cash and stock. [10] In 2000, it acquired bedding company Capt'n Snooze. [ 11 ] In 2002, the company acquired the Bayswiss homewares chain.
The Myer retail group was founded by Sidney Myer, who migrated from Belarus to Melbourne in 1899 after the height of Victoria's gold rush, with very little money and little knowledge of English to join his elder brother, Elcon Myer (1875–1938), who had left Russia two years earlier.
Lincraft (formerly Suzanne Silks) was nurtured by three generations of the Ross family before current owners John Maguire and Brian Swersky established Lincraft Australia in 2005. Lincraft was founded in 1938 by Leo Ross as a stall shop in Melbourne. [ 1 ]
In 1961, by which time, there were seven independent members, the association was incorporated to form Betta Stores Pty Ltd. By 1964, when there were over 50 members Betta Stores Pty Ltd became a public company (Betta Stores Ltd), a business that serviced both Betta Electrical branded and non-branded independent retailers throughout the 1990s.
In April 2023, LK Group's Queens Lane Capital investment arm purchased Snooze from Greenlit Brands, along with its FutureSleep bedding manufacture and G&G furniture import and wholesale subsidiaries. [ 8 ] [ 9 ]