Business features
Agripak
Backed by a 14-member consortium of grain industry companies and individuals, Ballan-based grain handling and distribution company Agripak is set to leverage from its strong shareholder backing, its large and accessible site and the growing clientele gained through word-of-mouth.
Alice Roof Tiles
Bacchus Marsh-based Alice Roof Tiles is well-equipped to compete against the big players in concrete roof tile manufacturing.
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Calleja Group
From humble beginnings as a one-truck waste transport business in 1950, the family-run Calleja Group is today driving the Bacchus Marsh-based JBD Industrial Park, and is behind a revolutionary and clean brown coal drying process.
Colour Vision Systems (CVS)
Taking full opportunity of the 1980s global fruit industry shift from manual to mechanical sorting, two Bacchus Marsh electronic engineers and a local mechanical engineer worked together to develop a range of high-tech equipment to sort the good fruit from the bad.
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IGA Bacchus Marsh
With the help of fellow independent retailer Brendon Goddard, Michael Zervakis turned a small Bacchus Marsh store into a major supermarket. Today, the good friends are behind Champions IGA, owning and operating six stores across Victoria.
Paarhammer
In a purpose-built factory in rural Ballan, a well-respected Master Furniture Maker and a European-trained kitchen designer duo have popularised energy-efficient windows and doors, and also created some of Australia’s most beautiful house fittings and furniture.
St Anne's Vineyard
With wine in their blood, the second generation of Myrniong McLeans are today behind the export-ambitious St Anne’s Vineyards, which has extended its wine-making capacity beyond its Pentland Hills-base to a 500-acre winery in Moama.
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Tripod Farmers
Tripod Farmers, the family-run Bacchus Marsh ‘fancy lettuce’ farming business, earned its No.1 position in Australia through meeting demand, growing with the product and embracing worldwide trends.
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Yuulong Lavender Estate
Two former country-born nurses transformed a 41-acre Mt Egerton property from bracken-covered scrub into a sweet-smelling lavender tourism mecca, further enhancing the business with the selling of natural skincare products, tasty food and a unique rural experience.
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