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Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. [3] Bunnings was founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1886, by brothers Arthur and Robert Bunning, who had
Bunnings is a retailer of home improvement and outdoor living products, servicing home and commercial customers in Australia and New Zealand. There are 210 Bunnings "warehouse" (larger) stores, 67 Bunnings small-format stores, 36 Bunnings Trade centres. Bunnings employs more than 33,000 staff. [13] [needs update]
There are three major hardware companies in Australia: Bunnings, Mitre 10 and Home Hardware. Home Hardware is a retailers' co-operative and has many banners which store owners trade under. Since the acquisition of Bunnings by Wesfarmers in 1994, the big-box store concept has changed how new hardware stores are built.
They developed it into what it is today at an estimated value of $60 million. It features 45,000 m 2 (481723 sq ft) of bulky goods retail facilities. [2] The initial purchaser has an unknown whereabouts today. Today, the park is owned by the Spotlight Group, who features a store inside the centre. [3] This ownership stems from unknown factors.
Officeworks also adopted the "Lowest Price Guarantee" similar to that found at Bunnings, where Officeworks offered to beat any competitor's price of an identical item by 5%. In 2011 Officeworks cut ties with paper supplier APRIL over claims that the paper supplier was illegally logging Indonesian forests.
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The Modbury, South Australia Mega store was bought by Wesfarmers' Bunnings in January 2007, the store employed 100 people. [15] [16] Hardy's Mitre 10 Mega in Pakenham, Victoria being the only store redeveloped from a smaller Mitre 10 Home and Trade store, still trading, with plans to expand. As of 2021, that store has become a Bunnings. [17]
Robert Bunning (13 December 1859 – 12 August 1936) was an English-born Western Australian businessman involved in the construction, timber, and sawmill industries. He co-founded with his younger brother Arthur (1863–1929) the company Bunning Bros, the predecessor to the modern-day retailer Bunnings.