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Gordon Brothers Industries Pty company history timeline

1919

Two years later in 1919 the business moved to Union St, Brunswick.

1922

Gordon Brothers became a pioneer in the development of the refrigeration industry in Australia and in 1922 produced one of the first totally enclosed ammonia compressors mainly for small dairies and butcher shops.

1923

In 1923 the business was incorporated as a company with the name Gordon Brothers Pty.

1931

In 1931 the company produced its own ‘Jack Frost’ refrigerator and the Jack Frost beer cooler became well known in hotels at the time.

1980

In the 1980’s Gordon Brothers established a new factory in Bendigo and commenced the manufacture of screw compressor packages, purpose built skid mounted refrigeration packages and large scale automatic plate freezers for the meat industry.

1981

The company decided to specialise only in industrial refrigeration and from a small base in 1981, Gordon Brothers achieved steady but considerable growth to now become the major company in this field in Australia.

In 1981 the then Finance Director of Baker Perkins, Ian Sleeth, was involved in this restructure and he successfully negotiated to buy the Gordon Brothers business from Baker Perkins, which then continued under his ownership for the next 25 years.

2006

In 2006 Gordon Brothers was purchased by the Hastie Group, an Australian public company.

2012

However following the demise of the Hastie Group in 2012 the Gordon Brothers business was purchased by the senior managers of the company and Ian Sleeth.

2015

During 2015 Gordon Brothers designed and installed a unique, energy saving mine cooling system which operates on waste heat using the latest absorption refrigeration technology.

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