Dew (mtn dew) - luxe (like the lux in luxury) Mac (like big mac) - quarry (like where ore/lime etc is extracted from) And as an aussie I've never heard of jimmy grants. Rip curl I didn't know the background, but that's pretty awesome to learn.
Mambo is/was an Australian company with the farting dog logo, which originally was a drawing that Reg Monbassa from Aussie group Mental As Anything ( The Mentals) drew.
"RM Williams" would have to be an incredibly famous and successful iconic Australian brand. My Yankee mates love wearing RM Williams boots. They are so versatile that you could go hunting in them or wear them to a wedding. Superbly well crafted too.
Great stuff, like Akubra Hats (from Tasmania)! RM Williams and Akubra are now owned by Andrew (Twiggy) Forrest, well done him for keeping them in Australia and Australian! 👏
My pair of R.M’s are over twenty years old & just recently need re-soling. It’s going to cost me a pretty penny but they’ll last another twenty I reckon. The only problem I have is when I travel overseas. I always get picked out of the line & have to remove them for further scanning…those damn Cuban heels are great storage apparently 😅🤣
You pronounced Visy correctly…. Vizzy. Macquarie is Mac-Quarry. Dulux is Dew-lux. Another fun fact, Woolies was also known in some states as Safeway. They were all rebranded in the last decade to Woolies. All the best from Melbourne Australia.
Thank you for telling us it was Macquarie. It was too small to read on my screen so I had no idea what he was saying. Americans aren’t used to Irish and Scottish names beginning with Mc and Mac, because I’ve noticed just how often they can’t pronounce them.
Safeway Supermarkets were established in Australia with an Australian investor and the US Parent. They used to be in most east coast states until 1985 when Woolworths bought out the majority from US Safeway and decided to retain the Safeway brand in Victoria due to its dominance and popularity. The stores in the other states closed or rebranded back to Woolworths. Any remaining Woolworths that were in Victoria were eventually rebranded to Safeway except for Karingal which retained the only Woolworths Supermarket in Victoria!
I remember the start of JB HiFi around 1974. My brother would help by making a bit of a trek to the single original store at Keilor East to buy bulk boxes of TDK Cassette tapes. Some for him and some for me. Now fifty years later most of my electronic stuff comes from one of their many stores in Melbourne.
Centre Way East Kelior store was small then eventually overtook the store next door for more floor space when they expanded to selling TVs & VCRs! Also Gary's Car Audio was across from the original JB - JB killed it.
I am 62 years old and Rip Curl are engrained in to my surfing history in Victoria. They are so different to the Torquay company/shop I knew in the 70s and 80s for boards and several custom wetsuits that were made on site, but I guess they had to change to survive. Still love their wetsuits and received one for Christmas. Total respect to their roots, a great story.
I will no longer buy Rip Curl. The ditched Bethany Hamilton as their face for women's attire and now have a trans gender. I am 66 and I too remember their rise to fame. Go woke go broke!!!
Premium fast food place owned by George Colombaris, the judge from Masterchef but got dissolved when he ran into trouble with underpaying staff wages and super. Hardly iconic you're right, more of a flash in a pan.
As an aside to my earlier comment, back in 1975 I was offered a complete Pan Pacific set in original copper frame for US$12,000. I had 10k at that time plus about 10k in coins and contemplated buying it, or a Porsche car, but decided to return to Australia instead. The last one of those sets sold in 2019 for US$ 250,000.00. Aaarrrgggh! Mind you, I am happy with my decision, I have had a great life here, seen a great lot of the world, and am still kicking and well.
Rip Curl, HUGE World headquarters at Torquay, Victoria. Home of Bells Beach World Surfing Championship.. big glass building, with a museum.. Which WAS a small surfer town 30 years ago.. Home of Bells Beach World Surfing Championship.. Also home of Billabong, Quicksilver, Hurley Headquarters etc.. 7:27 Mr JB Hifi actually only passed away last week or so..
9:15 Jimmy Grants went into liquidation in 2020 after its parent company collapsed due to a pay scandal. 15:14 ICI was split in half and divested out to pay debt and created the explosives company Orica. Orica spun off its non-core consumer assets which became DuluxGroup, who owns several brands of cauk and stuff, and Ixom. Meanwhile ICI became AksoNobel which was once a chemical giant but gradually was whittled down to just a coatings tycoon who owns Dulux outside Australia.
You nailed the "how ya garn?" Official Aussie now. How many times have your friends got annoyed with you when you say "hey, did you know that in Australia......" ? 😂😂😂
I bought my first HIFI from John Barbuto in 1981. It was at the original store at the Centreway at East Keilor, just down from where my parents and I lived in Keilor. It’s about 7-8 miles from Melbourne CBD. He, JB, was a great character.
Visy is pronounced "Vizzy". Dick Pratt was one of Australia's richest men. He was so rich he was running 3 separate families and his first wife was matriarch over all of them. The main factory was a short walk from the house I used to own in Coburg, Melbourne. Dulux is pronounced like Jew-Lux. They used Old English Sheepdogs in their ads, and many Australians call OESs 'Dulux Dogs'.
@@FionaEm Jeanne tried and failed to bring the third lady to heel. It was in The Age at the time, and he'd just died after the price fixing scandal that should have ended with a gaol term. She wanted more money for his kids. Never mind the time, I wish I had the bloke's energy, and I DON'T mean for horizontal jogging. How does Rupert still chase a dollar so hard? An obsession I suppose. I still drive past Rahine from time to time. I used to live near the factory but now I live a bit further out.
Dulux, British Paints, Berger, Porters Paints, Walpamur, Cabot's, Intergrain and Feat & Watson have all recently been bought by Nippon Holdings of Japan. Furthermore, Solver, Wattyl, Taubman's, Bristol and White Knight Paints are owned and controlled by American interests. So no longer Australian owned.
For me a very interesting situation with Dulux paints. Some years ago they had a promotion that when you purchased four litres of Dulux paint then you received a two litres Dulux can full of jelly beans. Taking the can to the airport for my grandchildren I was stopped at security for trying to take paint onto the aircraft. It took me some time to convince the security staff that I only had jelly beans.
Woolworths had first opened in 1924 in Sydney's Imperial Arcade as a variety store called Woolworths Stupendous Bargain Basement. The store had no links to the Woolworth chain of five and dime stores in the USA and unashamedly stole the name when the founders realised it had not been registered in Australia.
House paint brands sold here in Australia are: Dulux Taubmans British Paints Solver White Knight Walpamur Berger Porter's Valspar Zinsser Wattyl There's too many...! Plus some smaller brands making specialty coatings. And basic spray paints: Rust-oleum----which is well known and probably American. Dulux Fiddly Bits, which is just cheap generic stuff
As a long time coin collector, I can add some info on the Holey Dollar. At the time Spanish eight real coins (piece of eight) were virtually the universal trade coinage. Australia would get currency in that form from ships buying our goods for export (mostly wool and timber in those days), but the currency would soon disappear as merchants purchased imports from the ships as well. The value of the coin was 5 shillings in Australia but varied in the world. The solution was to take a batch of them and punch out the middle, thus creating 2 coins from one. The large holey piece was labeled 5 shillings and carried the same value as a complete one, and the center piece called a "dump" was valued at 1 shilling, As the Spanish real was valued due to its consistent weight in silver, the ship captains would not take the new lighter punched out coins, and thus the coins remained circulating in the country. Today both parts are considered very valuable in numismatic terms and many end up in museums. Current @ value of a Holey dollar is A$500,000.00 depending upon condition, stamp quality and rarity of the original Spanish coin it was produced from, and no, I do not have one dammit.
Rip Curl hold the Bells Beach Classic Surfing Contest each Easter at Bells Beach Victoria, it's one of the biggest Surfing Contests in the world...The company I work for does the security for the Rip Curl Head Office in Torquay......The Banking one iis Pronounced McQuarry and the paint is pronounced Dewlux
G'day Ian, writing this message about half an hour away from Torquay just down the coast. Torquay is pronounced the same as Torquay in England (also where Fawlty Towers is set too..) Torquay has a small shopping mall (of sorts) just of surfie stores. I used to go there during my teenage years to buy some sloppy surfie t-shirts. Visy is related to Pratt Industries in the USA (same owner). Back in Sept. 2019 Pres. Trump and Aust. PM Scott Morrison both opened a new manufacturing plant / paper mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, that created about 300 jobs. Visy in Oz and Pratt in the US both do cardboard packaging which is pretty important because many things you would buy come in a cardboard box. I wonder how many other country American towns can lay claim to hosting two world leaders at the same time? 🤔🤔
We have a great deal of innovative companies started here in Australia. You may recognise Redarc(a with Australian company that has gone international), Patriot Campers, Victor Lawn mowers, the Hills Hoist (clothes line) not to mention our technological innovations that are now implemented globally.
The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan is quite iconic. A lot of issues involved in why the US Woolworths failed, so it's best to Google it if you are interested. The UK Woolworths also ended up failing too. Obviously the separate Australian Woolworths managed to avoid this fate.
My cousin was a surf bum "a morning surf starts the day right"! I love JB Hi-fi's huge range, originally my family were not fans because they're musicians and small music shops closed because they couldn't compete! Country Road started out as the top quality and natural fabrics brand but sadly had to start manufacturing offshore to make money! Jimmy Grants, yes, slang immi-grants! Visy, definitely a monopoly brand! Telstra is the original Australian Telco! Love the Woollies green, but not their current prices! Dulux is still Australian! 👍 That was fun Ian! 😁
Macquarie: mac-QUA-rry. (like quarry, an open-pit mine) Also the name of an island, a dictionary, a bank, several towns and suburbs around Australia, a lake, a river, a lighthouse, a university, and until 2015, a media group broadcasting a handful of AM radio channels.
Optus was purchased by Singtel now overseas owned We had Kmart and Target in Australia too Deluxe pronunciation is (Dewlux) VISY pronunciation is (Vizzy)
We still have Kmart & Target but many Targets were closed in the last few years by Wesfarmers who owns both companies. Target was losing too many sales
"I'm not a surfer" 😂. Just in case there was any doubt. 🏄 I remember all those surf wear brands growing up. (And a couple of now deceased ones). Never heard of Jimmy Grants. Must be a Melbourne only chain.
@IWrocker, Visy is pronounced "vizzy" like the word "busy" but with a V instead of B. Speedo used to be an Aussie brand too, started by a UK Immigrant, but is now owned by the UK. Woolworths for some time changed their name to Safeway(s), but some years ago, they changed it back to Woolworths. Driza-bone (as in Dry as a bone an old Aussie slang term for being thirsty, or without water for long periods of time) is another old Aussie company. they are very popular with farmers and people in the equestrian world, plus others.
Has always been Woolworths in Adelaide as well as Woolworths Variety which was like a Woolworths and a big W mixed together in one store...I think one of the last of those vriety stores was in Rundle Mall, Adelaide. Safeway was a separate chain that Woolworths bought out.
@@stevenbalekic5683 yes, but in Victoria, Woolworths changed their name to Safeways (maybe a few minor stores retained the name Woolworths). The Safeway stores near where i live had originally been Woolworths, then changed to Safeway some time in the 80's, and stayed that way til some time in the 2010's. Many other stores had too. In fact, Victoria didnt have Woolworths conmmercials on tv, just Safeway (the fresh food people which upon the revert back to Woolworths it became Woolies slogan).
Woolworths also had different names depending on what state you were in, when I was 16 many moons ago I was a trolley boy at Safeway, which was a part of the same group. Tasmania had Rolf Vos, not sure about the other states. It took me a long time to call it Woolies after I posted to Queensland in the Army…lol
here in Tasmania, Woolworths began as Rolf Vos Supermarkets, the original store was located in Launceston. A brand new Woolworths has been built diagonally across from that location in Wellington street, just off to the side of the CBD.
Macquarie = Mack quarry, have a good one Ian. Macquarie was an early English governor during the colonial period, he was famous for naming things after himself, You only need to look north of Sydney and every 3rd thing is named after him.
Woolworth's was everywhere when I was a younger, 70s & 80s. Their first successful store was in Lancaster, PA. They were very prevalent in PA. Pretty much every mall had one as one of their anchor stores. The one at the mall near where I grew up had a 2 level store with its own escalator connecting the 2 levels. A lot of towns had stand alone stores on their main streets. As a kid, my favorite sections in the store were the toy section, the pet sections (think guppies, parakeets and gerbils) and the music section. They eventually evolved into Footlocker which is a huge evolution of what they started as (5 and 10 department store) and still exists today.
don't forget the original and most famous UGG with the Ugg boots also you have to throw in RM Williams and Akubra, fun fact the guy that owns Billabong also owns a property in the town I live in, we often see his chopper out checking out the waves when he is in town
G/Day mate! If you ever come down Under 🦘 come to Airlie beach 🏖️ and see the Whitsunday islands in Australia! I live in Mackay which is very close and you're welcome to stay 😊
I wore Rip Curl t-shirts back in the 70's along with Crystal Cylinders , a real good one is MAMBO by Reg Mombassa from Mental as Anything My 3 X Great Grandfather George Howe was one of the original 12 subscribers to start the Bank Of New South Wales in 1813 Macquarie sounds like Mac Quarry . Five years earlier RUM was the currency that led to the RUM rebellion to overthrow the infamous Governor William Bligh , the same Bligh as Mutiny on The Bounty
Woolworths (along with their only main competitor, Coles) run a duopoly in the Australian supermarket sector. Both place profits and shareholders above consumers. Both have shonky pricing practices. Price fixing and gouging is an ongoing issue. The same with our domestic air travel. There are only two major players, Virgin and Qantas. One thing the USA does very well is offer real competition across all sectors.
Woolworths in Victoria was Safeway supermarkets first one by one changed it's name to Woolworths in New South Wales and Queensland until all Safeway supermarkets became Woolworths
G'day Mate! The American F W Woolworths also had a chain in the UK which was sold in the 1980's but went into liquidation in about 2009. There have been other iterations from the US parent company in Europe... Cheers!
Woolworths, KMart, and Target all got their names from the US. I'm not sure about Kmart, or Target, but Woolworths is completely different to its US version, the US version from memory is a department store, here in Australia it is a grocery store.
Kmart/Target are Coles companies, they just use the trademarks. Target is merging with Kmart atm. Woolies are b*stards, but aren't American. Hope this helps.
England also had a supermarket chain called woolworths, having nothing to do with either the Australian or USA stores . South Africa have a department store Wollworths
Actually Target and KMart are both Wesfarmers brands. They used to be Coles/Myers group. Kmart used to be a joint venture between Coles and the US company. Target used to be Myers Group, then when Coles and Myers merged, both KMart and Target became Coles Myers, then Wesfarmers bought Coles Myers.@@UncleJoeLITE
I worked at woollies which became safeway then back to woollies. It wasn't just a grocery store. We sold products from Manchester to electrical goods too.
I use to work in Casella wines they make yellow tail wine very well known but the boxes i packed them in were supplied by VISY alot of things that are packed in cardboard boxes is most likely owned by VISY the cardboard boxes
Another interesting name is that Wal mart is already registered in Australia by a guy whose name happens to be Wal Mart! he trades under the name Economy Bolts.
Hi from Luxemburg😊 I watched some of your videos her on TH-cam. I love your race and rally videos a lot and some of the cars you shown. But i saw you forgot an other Legend or maybe i did not have found it yet 😅 But the car i was thinking Is the Alfa Romeo 155 DTM Race Car 😊
It started off in Melbourne Myers around 30 years ago or more. I remember it well because myself and friends use to get a shit load of freebies from off the back of the Myers truck with tags attached every month for a couple of years. They were the good old days! 😂
I was thinking wow a loan of $20k back in 1794, his uncle must've been a billionaire equivalent! Then realised, wait that's 100 years before Australia was even was a thing! 😂
@12:45 WOOLIES! 😊 MAAATE! DID YOU KNOW THAT GREEN LOGO THAT IS SO KOOL IS ACTUALLY- APPLE PEELED TO SHAPE A 'W' ! WOOLIES LOGO IS : TH FRESH FOOD PEOPLE"! Its an apple bro! * Fair Dinkum!! 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻👍👍 I was aeound when th original advertising campaigns were across all t.v. and radio stations (th only kind of media bakk then) The animation was of an apple being peeled digitally to make th "W" as thry changed thier model into a fresh produce provider and meats etc.. Its th farmers greatest battle so we try to support our farmers over th big corporations that destroyed th local traders..
Woolworth's here in the U.S. was a major player in the 'dime store' or 'five & dime' store as they were referred to, like Kress's, Kresge's, Ben Franklin stores, etc. It evolved differently in AU, as a different type of store, and there it still is a big player in the 'big store' realm I believe. And think it may still be at least partly held by the Woolworth family.
Kresge's started out Kmart in Australia along with Kmart Food in 1969 before it was bought out in the 80s by a company known as Coles-Myer. The Kmart brand is still alive and well in Australia and also exists in New Zealand. They are extremely popular and most stores are hyper market sized and are 24 hours too however they no longer stock food. It's mainly a department store similar to Target Australia (same name and logo, no connection to US Target)
🤣 I am a 57 year old Aussie chick in Melbourne, and have never heard of Smiggle! I guess as I am not in their sales sights :) I've never heard of Jimmy Grants either :( andTorquay = when we say it sounds like saying tore key :) Macquarie = when we say it sounds like Mah Quarry :) Dulux = when we say it sounds like D'you Lux :)
So not only is Jimmy Grants not known outside of Melbourne, many Melbournians have never heard of it either. Even more reason for it not to be on this list.
I have never heard of Jimmy Grants but then again I have not been to Melbourne for 20 years. There are definitely more iconic ones than some listed here especially those that are known internationally. Picking a restaurant that is not known outside of Melbourne should not be in the top 10.
Macquarie is pronounced "Mahquarry". Lachlan Macquarie was one of the first Governors in the new colony of New South Wales, and has streets, towns, rivers, universities, schools, banks etc named after him. Aussies call Woolworths "Woolies", and the Woolies logo is known as the "wapple", being it looks like an apple.
Your gut instinct was correct with Visy…most times you said it right. You said Macquarie wrong tho. It’s mac+quarry emphasis on the quarry. Also Dulux is due+lux emphasis on the due
I still use my Rip Curl wallet i got back in the 90s, JB Hi-Fi is good for import music cd's and some music DvDs, And you should know our Australian English we use vowels heheeee, a, e, i, o, and u..
I am Australian and never heard of Jimmy Grants. Apparently it was a chain of restaurants with only one outside of Melbourne and shut down in 2020.
Dew (mtn dew) - luxe (like the lux in luxury)
Mac (like big mac) - quarry (like where ore/lime etc is extracted from)
And as an aussie I've never heard of jimmy grants.
Rip curl I didn't know the background, but that's pretty awesome to learn.
Speedo swimwear also started in Australia at Bondi.
Ahh, the good old budgie smugglers!
Just to add fun to it, the 3 surfing brands: Rip Curl, Quicksilver, and Billabong are all aussie :)
What about okanewies
& all from Victorian Surf Coast near Torquay 💪🇦🇺
@lizbrown2686, not billabong, they were founded on the gold coast not Torquay.
Sitting here wearing two of three now.
@@joe2097 Okanui is Australian, started on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.
Mambo is/was an Australian company with the farting dog logo, which originally was a drawing that Reg Monbassa from Aussie group Mental As Anything ( The Mentals) drew.
"RM Williams" would have to be an incredibly famous and successful iconic Australian brand. My Yankee mates love wearing RM Williams boots. They are so versatile that you could go hunting in them or wear them to a wedding. Superbly well crafted too.
Great stuff, like Akubra Hats (from Tasmania)! RM Williams and Akubra are now owned by Andrew (Twiggy) Forrest, well done him for keeping them in Australia and Australian! 👏
And Gina Rinehart just bought Driza-Bone
@@jgsheehan8810 That's right, we do have some Fair Dinkum Australians still investing in Australia! 👍👏
@@jenniferharrison8915 - Akubra is from NSW - Kempsey... Blundstone is Tassy (nb, for the Yank, with a ZZ)
My pair of R.M’s are over twenty years old & just recently need re-soling. It’s going to cost me a pretty penny but they’ll last another twenty I reckon. The only problem I have is when I travel overseas. I always get picked out of the line & have to remove them for further scanning…those damn Cuban heels are great storage apparently 😅🤣
You pronounced Visy correctly…. Vizzy. Macquarie is Mac-Quarry. Dulux is Dew-lux. Another fun fact, Woolies was also known in some states as Safeway. They were all rebranded in the last decade to Woolies. All the best from Melbourne Australia.
FYI, for our mate Ian. It's not doo-lucks either. Hahahah
Thank you for telling us it was Macquarie. It was too small to read on my screen so I had no idea what he was saying. Americans aren’t used to Irish and Scottish names beginning with Mc and Mac, because I’ve noticed just how often they can’t pronounce them.
Woolworth is a surname, so it can be used anywhere without any connection to the Australian company. Same with Wendy’s.
Safeway Supermarkets were established in Australia with an Australian investor and the US Parent. They used to be in most east coast states until 1985 when Woolworths bought out the majority from US Safeway and decided to retain the Safeway brand in Victoria due to its dominance and popularity. The stores in the other states closed or rebranded back to Woolworths. Any remaining Woolworths that were in Victoria were eventually rebranded to Safeway except for Karingal which retained the only Woolworths Supermarket in Victoria!
Still Woolworths in WA. At least from where I am. However we all call it woolies now days. It’s a lot easier to say.
Quicksilver, Billabong and Speedo started in Australia. They were my go to shops in the 70s.
I remember the start of JB HiFi around 1974. My brother would help by making a bit of a trek to the single original store at Keilor East to buy bulk boxes of TDK Cassette tapes. Some for him and some for me.
Now fifty years later most of my electronic stuff comes from one of their many stores in Melbourne.
and JB died recently (the man not the store!)
Centre Way East Kelior store was small then eventually overtook the store next door for more floor space when they expanded to selling TVs & VCRs! Also Gary's Car Audio was across from the original JB - JB killed it.
I am 62 years old and Rip Curl are engrained in to my surfing history in Victoria. They are so different to the Torquay company/shop I knew in the 70s and 80s for boards and several custom wetsuits that were made on site, but I guess they had to change to survive. Still love their wetsuits and received one for Christmas. Total respect to their roots, a great story.
They have sold out to Kathmandu!
I will no longer buy Rip Curl. The ditched Bethany Hamilton as their face for women's attire and now have a trans gender. I am 66 and I too remember their rise to fame. Go woke go broke!!!
I’d hardly call Jimmy Grant’s as ‘iconic’… never heard of it
Same
Premium fast food place owned by George Colombaris, the judge from Masterchef but got dissolved when he ran into trouble with underpaying staff wages and super.
Hardly iconic you're right, more of a flash in a pan.
Me too. I always thought immigrants were referred to as wogs.
He got busted for not paying his staff properly
As an aside to my earlier comment, back in 1975 I was offered a complete Pan Pacific set in original copper frame for US$12,000. I had 10k at that time plus about 10k in coins and contemplated buying it, or a Porsche car, but decided to return to Australia instead. The last one of those sets sold in 2019 for US$ 250,000.00. Aaarrrgggh! Mind you, I am happy with my decision, I have had a great life here, seen a great lot of the world, and am still kicking and well.
Rip Curl, HUGE World headquarters at Torquay, Victoria. Home of Bells Beach World Surfing Championship.. big glass building, with a museum..
Which WAS a small surfer town 30 years ago.. Home of Bells Beach World Surfing Championship..
Also home of Billabong, Quicksilver, Hurley Headquarters etc..
7:27 Mr JB Hifi actually only passed away last week or so..
9:15 Jimmy Grants went into liquidation in 2020 after its parent company collapsed due to a pay scandal.
15:14 ICI was split in half and divested out to pay debt and created the explosives company Orica. Orica spun off its non-core consumer assets which became DuluxGroup, who owns several brands of cauk and stuff, and Ixom. Meanwhile ICI became AksoNobel which was once a chemical giant but gradually was whittled down to just a coatings tycoon who owns Dulux outside Australia.
i'm surprised akubra wasn't on the list.
You nailed the "how ya garn?" Official Aussie now.
How many times have your friends got annoyed with you when you say "hey, did you know that in Australia......" ? 😂😂😂
Too many times 🤣🎉
@@IWrocker the correct pronunciation in an aussie accent is howsa gowin 😀
Never heard of Jimmy Grants, ever. I've lived in Australia for 44 years. Heard of Greorge from Masterchef etc..
Both Rip Curl and Quicksilver were founded in 1969 in Torquay, Victoria.
Billabong was founded in the Gold Coast in the early 70s.
I bought my first HIFI from John Barbuto in 1981. It was at the original store at the Centreway at East Keilor, just down from where my parents and I lived in Keilor. It’s about 7-8 miles from Melbourne CBD. He, JB, was a great character.
Visy is pronounced "Vizzy". Dick Pratt was one of Australia's richest men. He was so rich he was running 3 separate families and his first wife was matriarch over all of them. The main factory was a short walk from the house I used to own in Coburg, Melbourne.
Dulux is pronounced like Jew-Lux. They used Old English Sheepdogs in their ads, and many Australians call OESs 'Dulux Dogs'.
Three families? I thought he 'only' had two. How the hell he had the time, IDK 😅
@@FionaEm Jeanne tried and failed to bring the third lady to heel. It was in The Age at the time, and he'd just died after the price fixing scandal that should have ended with a gaol term. She wanted more money for his kids.
Never mind the time, I wish I had the bloke's energy, and I DON'T mean for horizontal jogging. How does Rupert still chase a dollar so hard? An obsession I suppose.
I still drive past Rahine from time to time. I used to live near the factory but now I live a bit further out.
Dulux, British Paints, Berger, Porters Paints, Walpamur, Cabot's, Intergrain and Feat & Watson have all recently been bought by Nippon Holdings of Japan. Furthermore, Solver, Wattyl, Taubman's, Bristol and White Knight Paints are owned and controlled by American interests. So no longer Australian owned.
@@petemedium2185 Don't forget about the Dulux Jelly Beans, the good old stale jelly beans in a paint can 😂😂
@@petemedium2185 Depressing stuff.
For me a very interesting situation with Dulux paints. Some years ago they had a promotion that when you purchased four litres of Dulux paint then you received a two litres Dulux can full of jelly beans. Taking the can to the airport for my grandchildren I was stopped at security for trying to take paint onto the aircraft. It took me some time to convince the security staff that I only had jelly beans.
- still... "TGA" raid-worthy! lol...
Hi mate .my dad brought a pallet of paint from fowels auctions 8 2 litre drums .when he received the pallet it had 8 tubs of jelly beans lol
We got that can of jellybeans when our family painted our rooms when I was Year 3, and the jellybeans lasted us for so long!
Woolworths had first opened in 1924 in Sydney's Imperial Arcade as a variety store called Woolworths Stupendous Bargain Basement. The store had no links to the Woolworth chain of five and dime stores in the USA and unashamedly stole the name when the founders realised it had not been registered in Australia.
- AND WW - stationary store - UK, overtaken and absorbed into Morrrisons (I think)....
Woolworths now owned by Blackrock...not exactly iconic Aussie any more
@@Lupi33zand Vanguard. This is why they are anti-Australian!
House paint brands sold here in Australia are:
Dulux
Taubmans
British Paints
Solver
White Knight
Walpamur
Berger
Porter's
Valspar
Zinsser
Wattyl
There's too many...!
Plus some smaller brands making specialty coatings.
And basic spray paints:
Rust-oleum----which is well known and probably American.
Dulux
Fiddly Bits, which is just cheap generic stuff
Crommelin. Although I don’t think they make top coats, they make very good primers/prep products.
Haymes
As a long time coin collector, I can add some info on the Holey Dollar. At the time Spanish eight real coins (piece of eight) were virtually the universal trade coinage. Australia would get currency in that form from ships buying our goods for export (mostly wool and timber in those days), but the currency would soon disappear as merchants purchased imports from the ships as well. The value of the coin was 5 shillings in Australia but varied in the world. The solution was to take a batch of them and punch out the middle, thus creating 2 coins from one. The large holey piece was labeled 5 shillings and carried the same value as a complete one, and the center piece called a "dump" was valued at 1 shilling, As the Spanish real was valued due to its consistent weight in silver, the ship captains would not take the new lighter punched out coins, and thus the coins remained circulating in the country. Today both parts are considered very valuable in numismatic terms and many end up in museums. Current @ value of a Holey dollar is A$500,000.00 depending upon condition, stamp quality and rarity of the original Spanish coin it was produced from, and no, I do not have one dammit.
The Holey dollar was introduced by Governor McMacquarie and the penalty if you got got forging them was seven years in the coal mines in Newcastle.
Rip Curl hold the Bells Beach Classic Surfing Contest each Easter at Bells Beach Victoria, it's one of the biggest Surfing Contests in the world...The company I work for does the security for the Rip Curl Head Office in Torquay......The Banking one iis Pronounced McQuarry and the paint is pronounced Dewlux
G'day Ian,
writing this message about half an hour away from Torquay just down the coast. Torquay is pronounced the same as Torquay in England (also where Fawlty Towers is set too..) Torquay has a small shopping mall (of sorts) just of surfie stores. I used to go there during my teenage years to buy some sloppy surfie t-shirts.
Visy is related to Pratt Industries in the USA (same owner). Back in Sept. 2019 Pres. Trump and Aust. PM Scott Morrison both opened a new manufacturing plant / paper mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, that created about 300 jobs. Visy in Oz and Pratt in the US both do cardboard packaging which is pretty important because many things you would buy come in a cardboard box.
I wonder how many other country American towns can lay claim to hosting two world leaders at the same time?
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We have a great deal of innovative companies started here in Australia. You may recognise Redarc(a with Australian company that has gone international), Patriot Campers, Victor Lawn mowers, the Hills Hoist (clothes line) not to mention our technological innovations that are now implemented globally.
Here in Melbourne, woolworths stupidmarkets were once called Safeway
The Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan is quite iconic. A lot of issues involved in why the US Woolworths failed, so it's best to Google it if you are interested. The UK Woolworths also ended up failing too. Obviously the separate Australian Woolworths managed to avoid this fate.
My Mum worked in Woolworths UK. in the '50's.
She still has her Woolworths apron that she wore working in the lollie section.
My cousin was a surf bum "a morning surf starts the day right"! I love JB Hi-fi's huge range, originally my family were not fans because they're musicians and small music shops closed because they couldn't compete! Country Road started out as the top quality and natural fabrics brand but sadly had to start manufacturing offshore to make money! Jimmy Grants, yes, slang immi-grants! Visy, definitely a monopoly brand! Telstra is the original Australian Telco! Love the Woollies green, but not their current prices! Dulux is still Australian! 👍 That was fun Ian! 😁
Macquarie: mac-QUA-rry. (like quarry, an open-pit mine) Also the name of an island, a dictionary, a bank, several towns and suburbs around Australia, a lake, a river, a lighthouse, a university, and until 2015, a media group broadcasting a handful of AM radio channels.
Optus was purchased by Singtel now overseas owned
We had Kmart and Target in Australia too
Deluxe pronunciation is (Dewlux)
VISY pronunciation is (Vizzy)
And dulux is spelt dulux.
We still have Kmart & Target but many Targets were closed in the last few years by Wesfarmers who owns both companies. Target was losing too many sales
Still killing it ,top job mate. Also congratulations on the Bundaberg bottle .⚡🇦🇺🇺🇸
"I'm not a surfer" 😂. Just in case there was any doubt. 🏄
I remember all those surf wear brands growing up. (And a couple of now deceased ones).
Never heard of Jimmy Grants. Must be a Melbourne only chain.
@IWrocker, Visy is pronounced "vizzy" like the word "busy" but with a V instead of B.
Speedo used to be an Aussie brand too, started by a UK Immigrant, but is now owned by the UK. Woolworths for some time changed their name to Safeway(s), but some years ago, they changed it back to Woolworths.
Driza-bone (as in Dry as a bone an old Aussie slang term for being thirsty, or without water for long periods of time) is another old Aussie company. they are very popular with farmers and people in the equestrian world, plus others.
Safeway was the name in Victoria and possibly some others. It was Woolworths in NSW.
Has always been Woolworths in Adelaide as well as Woolworths Variety which was like a Woolworths and a big W mixed together in one store...I think one of the last of those vriety stores was in Rundle Mall, Adelaide.
Safeway was a separate chain that Woolworths bought out.
@@peterhozSafeways was also in NSW as well as Flemings.
@@stevenbalekic5683 yes, but in Victoria, Woolworths changed their name to Safeways (maybe a few minor stores retained the name Woolworths). The Safeway stores near where i live had originally been Woolworths, then changed to Safeway some time in the 80's, and stayed that way til some time in the 2010's. Many other stores had too. In fact, Victoria didnt have Woolworths conmmercials on tv, just Safeway (the fresh food people which upon the revert back to Woolworths it became Woolies slogan).
We all think Woolworths is Australian owned. Check out The Vanguard Group's holdings, or better still Google who owns WW.
The investment bank is pronounced mac quarry (qwor-ee)
Woolworths also had different names depending on what state you were in, when I was 16 many moons ago I was a trolley boy at Safeway, which was a part of the same group. Tasmania had Rolf Vos, not sure about the other states. It took me a long time to call it Woolies after I posted to Queensland in the Army…lol
here in Tasmania, Woolworths began as Rolf Vos Supermarkets, the original store was located in Launceston. A brand new Woolworths has been built diagonally across from that location in Wellington street, just off to the side of the CBD.
Macquarie = Mack quarry, have a good one Ian. Macquarie was an early English governor during the colonial period, he was famous for naming things after himself, You only need to look north of Sydney and every 3rd thing is named after him.
Bells beach is a major surfing competition near Torquay in Victoria. Produced the surf companies.
Woolworth's was everywhere when I was a younger, 70s & 80s. Their first successful store was in Lancaster, PA. They were very prevalent in PA. Pretty much every mall had one as one of their anchor stores. The one at the mall near where I grew up had a 2 level store with its own escalator connecting the 2 levels. A lot of towns had stand alone stores on their main streets. As a kid, my favorite sections in the store were the toy section, the pet sections (think guppies, parakeets and gerbils) and the music section. They eventually evolved into Footlocker which is a huge evolution of what they started as (5 and 10 department store) and still exists today.
Macquarie is pronounced mac (think maccas) and quarry. Well done on most of the others. Your last attempt at Visy was correct (like busy).
don't forget the original and most famous UGG with the Ugg boots also you have to throw in RM Williams and Akubra, fun fact the guy that owns Billabong also owns a property in the town I live in, we often see his chopper out checking out the waves when he is in town
G/Day mate! If you ever come down Under 🦘 come to Airlie beach 🏖️ and see the Whitsunday islands in Australia! I live in Mackay which is very close and you're welcome to stay 😊
My girlfriend and her husband are up at Airlie Beach now - having a ball I bet😊
Rip Curl also do snow gear, Macquarie is pronounced Mac quarry. You learn something every day, I always assumed Dulux was a subsidiary of US Dupont.
Rip curl factory retail shop is down at narang. Down the coast. Drove pass it yesterday when myself and the family went to robina shopping village
You should check out the new Australian 2024 lamb ad
I wore Rip Curl t-shirts back in the 70's along with Crystal Cylinders , a real good one is MAMBO by Reg Mombassa from Mental as Anything My 3 X Great Grandfather George Howe was one of the original 12 subscribers to start the Bank Of New South Wales in 1813 Macquarie sounds like Mac Quarry . Five years earlier RUM was the currency that led to the RUM rebellion to overthrow the infamous Governor William Bligh , the same Bligh as Mutiny on The Bounty
Fantastic original t-shirts! 👍 Hooray to my ancestor, John MacArthur! 😄
@@jenniferharrison8915 yeap he led the charge to find Bliigh hiding under his bed
Chrystal Cylinders -- "Turn on the juice!"
Quicksilver, Rip Curl and Billabong also make high quality ski/snowboard clothing.
Woolworths (along with their only main competitor, Coles) run a duopoly in the Australian supermarket sector.
Both place profits and shareholders above consumers. Both have shonky pricing practices. Price fixing and gouging is an ongoing issue.
The same with our domestic air travel. There are only two major players, Virgin and Qantas.
One thing the USA does very well is offer real competition across all sectors.
Surprised Westfield didn’t get a look in
I’m surprised Coles, Myer & David Jones didn’t.
Woolworths in Tasmania used to be called Roelf Vos, but eventually changed to Woolworths in the late 90s. Also where I worked my first job
I've never heard of Jimmy Grants(except the slang term)😮 or Visy, happy new year Ian and family
Anyone remember " Golden Breed" clothing , their motocross jerseys were cool.
Yes! I remember Golden Breed "Windcheaters".
Kinda cool when I was in Primary School and maybe Highschool.
Remember wearing the jumpers in primary school late 70's.
Woolworths in Victoria was Safeway supermarkets first one by one changed it's name to Woolworths in New South Wales and Queensland until all Safeway supermarkets became Woolworths
G'day Mate! The American F W Woolworths also had a chain in the UK which was sold in the 1980's but went into liquidation in about 2009. There have been other iterations from the US parent company in Europe... Cheers!
We also have a company called Lowes over here, but unlike in America, it is a men's clothing store, not a hardware store.
Year, favourites is the original British spelling. I blame Noah Webster for all the spelling errors in the US.
Woolworths, KMart, and Target all got their names from the US. I'm not sure about Kmart, or Target, but Woolworths is completely different to its US version, the US version from memory is a department store, here in Australia it is a grocery store.
Woolworths did not get their name from the US.
Kmart/Target are Coles companies, they just use the trademarks. Target is merging with Kmart atm.
Woolies are b*stards, but aren't American. Hope this helps.
England also had a supermarket chain called woolworths, having nothing to do with either the Australian or USA stores . South Africa have a department store Wollworths
Actually Target and KMart are both Wesfarmers brands. They used to be Coles/Myers group.
Kmart used to be a joint venture between Coles and the US company.
Target used to be Myers Group, then when Coles and Myers merged, both KMart and Target became Coles Myers, then Wesfarmers bought Coles Myers.@@UncleJoeLITE
I worked at woollies which became safeway then back to woollies. It wasn't just a grocery store. We sold products from Manchester to electrical goods too.
We have Sherwin Williams paints here in Oz . Sold in Bunnings
Dulux is Dyou Lux. Macquarie is Mac quarry. we use Dulux in our home really good stuff.
Its always fun watching your videos.
Quicksilver also started around the time of Quivksilver in Torquay.
Here are a few other iconic Australian brands - Bunnings, Qantas, Speedo, Bonds, Akubra, Uncle Toby’s, Aeroplane Jelly, Bega, Arnotts
Canva which started in Perth not Silicon Valley is also Australian owned
My wife uses Canva a lot, we found out last year randomly that they are Australian and thought that was so cool 😎🎉
@IWrocker I didn't know till about about a ago either😀
I use to work in Casella wines they make yellow tail wine very well known but the boxes i packed them in were supplied by VISY alot of things that are packed in cardboard boxes is most likely owned by VISY the cardboard boxes
Another interesting name is that Wal mart is already registered in Australia by a guy whose name happens to be Wal Mart! he trades under the name Economy Bolts.
Hi from Luxemburg😊
I watched some of your videos her on TH-cam. I love your race and rally videos a lot and some of the cars you shown. But i saw you forgot an other Legend or maybe i did not have found it yet 😅 But the car i was thinking Is the Alfa Romeo 155 DTM Race Car 😊
Pronounced macQUARRY... I worked there for years... Best company to work for!!
Did anyone else fall about laughing when being told that 'Country Road' began in 1794? 😂😂
It started off in Melbourne Myers around 30 years ago or more. I remember it well because myself and friends use to get a shit load of freebies from off the back of the Myers truck with tags attached every month for a couple of years. They were the good old days! 😂
I didn’t even catch that until I read these comments and now I’m laughing my ass off 🤣🤣🤣🎉
I was thinking wow a loan of $20k back in 1794, his uncle must've been a billionaire equivalent!
Then realised, wait that's 100 years before Australia was even was a thing! 😂
@@IWrocker Ah well, everyone benefits from a giggle on a damp, dark winter afternoon! Or even a sweltering hot afternoon.☺
You gotta react to the Summernats this from this year
Epic battles and lots of internationals! 😁👍
@@jenniferharrison8915 hopefully it’s not completely ruined 🙏
@@bobmully5577 I hope so too! 😟
@12:45
WOOLIES! 😊 MAAATE! DID YOU KNOW THAT GREEN LOGO THAT IS SO KOOL IS ACTUALLY- APPLE PEELED TO SHAPE A 'W' ! WOOLIES LOGO IS : TH FRESH FOOD PEOPLE"!
Its an apple bro!
* Fair Dinkum!! 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻👍👍
I was aeound when th original advertising campaigns were across all t.v. and radio stations (th only kind of media bakk then)
The animation was of an apple being peeled digitally to make th "W" as thry changed thier model into a fresh produce provider and meats etc..
Its th farmers greatest battle so we try to support our farmers over th big corporations that destroyed th local traders..
Most from Melbourne- totally the best state IMO 😍
If I remember my history lessons correctly the piece that was knocked out of the Holy dollar was called The Dump
There was a very famous heiress in America that inherited your Woolworths. Dulux is said Dewlux, Macquarie is said as it is spelt so try Mac Quarrie.
decorations from FWWoolworths and I still have quite a few of them today
Woolworth's here in the U.S. was a major player in the 'dime store' or 'five & dime' store as they were referred to, like Kress's, Kresge's, Ben Franklin stores, etc. It evolved differently in AU, as a different type of store, and there it still is a big player in the 'big store' realm I believe.
And think it may still be at least partly held by the Woolworth family.
Kresge's started out Kmart in Australia along with Kmart Food in 1969 before it was bought out in the 80s by a company known as Coles-Myer. The Kmart brand is still alive and well in Australia and also exists in New Zealand. They are extremely popular and most stores are hyper market sized and are 24 hours too however they no longer stock food. It's mainly a department store similar to Target Australia (same name and logo, no connection to US Target)
don't forget Westfield shopping centre group
Some of your post packages from Australia were probably made by Visy.
OPTUS is partly Australian
“Country Road Size 10” 😂
Dulux are the best paint for painting houses imo.
Really enjoyed that. And deluxe pronounced deluxe. Macquarie is Macquarie. Love the fact you pronounced most words like us aussies
Deluxe? Spelled Dulux and pronounced Dew- lux.
it's Governor Macquarie as in M'c-quarry! the paint company is pronounced Dyou lux!
Thanks for the interesting content! Fyi..Macquarie sounds like Ma-quarry
Deluxe sounds like Dew-lux
Your first pronunciation of Visy was right 👍
I have an Australian coin collection that includes the Australian Holey Dollar & Dump with a certificate
My dad had one in his collection .....till stolen.
JB Hi fi is awesome Ian, best store in Australia I always shop there
Ford actually did a limit edition falcon called the ford falcon rip curl witch was a collaboration with em
🤣 I am a 57 year old Aussie chick in Melbourne, and have never heard of Smiggle! I guess as I am not in their sales sights :) I've never heard of Jimmy Grants either :( andTorquay = when we say it sounds like saying tore key :) Macquarie = when we say it sounds like Mah Quarry :) Dulux = when we say it sounds like D'you Lux :)
So not only is Jimmy Grants not known outside of Melbourne, many Melbournians have never heard of it either. Even more reason for it not to be on this list.
I have never heard of Jimmy Grants but then again I have not been to Melbourne for 20 years. There are definitely more iconic ones than some listed here especially those that are known internationally. Picking a restaurant that is not known outside of Melbourne should not be in the top 10.
I live in Melbourne and have never heard of Jimmy Grants!
Live in Melbourne as well and have zero idea about Jimmy grants.
50 years ago when living in Chicago with my American husband I bought our first Christmas
You're gonna be teaching Aussie history soon mate 👍😁🇦🇺
white history anyway :p
@@Cassxowary there's always one miserable POS with their finger on the alarm button
Smiggles sells good products, but hell expensive compared to the likes of what Officeworks, etc... sell.
Macquarie is pronounced "Mahquarry". Lachlan Macquarie was one of the first Governors in the new colony of New South Wales, and has streets, towns, rivers, universities, schools, banks etc named after him.
Aussies call Woolworths "Woolies", and the Woolies logo is known as the "wapple", being it looks like an apple.
Your gut instinct was correct with Visy…most times you said it right. You said Macquarie wrong tho. It’s mac+quarry emphasis on the quarry. Also Dulux is due+lux emphasis on the due
Macquarie group, think quarie (mining). Lt Macquarie is an English officer when Australia was founded
I still use my Rip Curl wallet i got back in the 90s, JB Hi-Fi is good for import music cd's and some music DvDs, And you should know our Australian English we use vowels heheeee, a, e, i, o, and u..
Rip Curl was recently sold to Kathmandu outdoor specialists. Ending 50 odd years of privately owned company of the original founders!
I believe Rip Curl was sold a couple of years ago to a Kiwi based company