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Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand.
Bunnings Warehouse 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]
The chain was an offshoot of BBC Hardware, which was owned by Burns Philp and then Howard Smith Limited, and had stores in Australia and New Zealand. It was established by BBC Hardware as a way to implement and develop the adopted hardware warehouse concept which was based on overseas chains B&Q and Home Depot .
On December 5, 2000, after several dramatically unprofitable years, it announced that 67 stores would be converted to a home decorating superstore chain, House2Home, and the remainder closed. House2Home would fare no better, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 7, 2001, and ceasing operations by early 2002 after 19 years of service.
Bunnings - Home improvement; Australia and New Zealand (formerly United Kingdom and Ireland) Cabela's - hunting, fishing, camping; historically a US-only chain, but opened its first Canadian location in 2008
It is Australia's third-biggest hardware chain after Bunnings and Mitre 10, the latter of which is its parent company. Home is known for its distinctive advertisements with two animated dog mascots: Rusty (voiced by Vic Plume) and Sandy (voiced by Greg Fleet ), often making fun of or pointing out perceived flaws of another unnamed hardware ...
Masters Home Improvement was an Australian home improvement chain operated by two retailers; Woolworths [2] and Lowe's. It was established as a way for Woolworths to enter the hardware retail market, which has been historically dominated by Bunnings, owned by their competitor Wesfarmers. These two companies also compete with each other with ...
Name Retail format Main products Number of stores Number of Auckland stores Parent company Founded Head office 2degrees: Electronics store [1]: Mobile phones [1]: 56 [1]: 20 [1] ...