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featured business

Coastal Casual Furniture
“We forget that
business
are
not objects or
establishments,
but they are
essentially
people,
often
from
diverse
Bob & Leah
backgrounds, thrown
together by odd reasons and events, to
offer what they figure the market wants.
Take Coastal Casual Furniture, in 1/31
Machinery Drive for example. It’s just
another outdoor furniture place isn’t it??

Derek
Started out as a draftsman in Perth, ran
Chicken shops in Melbourne, operated
heavy machinery in WA/NT, made
aluminium boats and makes outdoor
furniture (loves working with wood), and is
pretty handy with computers.

Alan
A qualified pastry chef, a pretty good
welder, has been a farmer and sheet metal
worker (loves to tell of travelling through
America and fishing on Fraser island). You
might see him in “The Repairman” truck.

John

What does this little business do? Sells plastic
fittings (exports to Mauritius, New Zealand,
Pacific) to make outdoor furniture,
shadehouses, swim platforms. Has sent
sunlounges to Breakfast Creek, Burnie (Tas),
Broome, Adelaide, Perth. Manufactured
thousands of chairs for Resorts and homes
on the Gold Coast. Supplied furniture for
many cafes/restaurants from Nelson Bay
to Noosa. Manufactured scores of laundry
and tray trollies for hospitals and retirement
homes. Supplies laundry bags. Supplies
outdoor cushions, umbrellas, Canvas and
vinyl repairs, blinds, awnings and annexes
for household or caravan. You can drool
over swatches of fabulous outdoor fabrics
from Europe or US for applications from
Cushions to shade-sails to Boat Covers to
Bird Netting.
Business as diverse as this needs more than
one website. Which is applicable to you?
www.casualfurniture.com.au
www.therepairman.com.au
www.medical-chairs-and-trolleys.com.au
www.coastalcanvasandvinylfabrication.
com.au
www.plasfit.com.au

Loves his kids, cars, has worked on farms,
and enjoys creating structures from fabric
like caravan annexes

Bob

colour (and painting). She’s good to talk to
about fabrics and colours

(thinks he’s the boss)

Small business background in a small
country town(groceries and takeaway
foods), used to enjoy (when there was
time) photography and community work.
Has been farm hand, salesman

Tweed Heads South has a lot of businesses,
offering a lot of services, with a lot of
skills and talents we don’t often hear
about. Take a look around. You might be
surprised.”

Leah (knows she’s the boss)
A farmers daughter, and a farmer in her
own right, loves her kids & grandkids, loves

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