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       home owner, and remains an                                                                                                    The Cool Group first broke
       important part of the business                                                                                              into the heavy industrial sector
       to this day.                                                                                                                after picking up Y a llourn Power
        As the business continued to                                                                                               Station, Hazelwood Power
       grow, travelling to Melbourne                                                                                               Station and then hospitals like
       each day, filling vans full of                                                                                              Latrobe Regional Hospital.
       water and returning to the                                                                                                    The company moved to 1
       Valley, was becoming too                                                                                                    Jane Street, Morwell in 2005
       difficult for the two young local                                                                                           and purchased a bottling
       boys who at that time were                                                                                                  plant which was its first big
       only in their early twenties.                                                                                               investment.
        “My dad offered to build me                                                                                                  “The machine is still ticking
       a shed on one of his properties                                                                                             over now and has processed
       to lighten our load,” Alfi said.                                                                                            over 75 million litres of water in
        “Once that was completed                                                                                                   the last 14 years,” he said.
       we started using it as a                                                                                                      Always hunting for new
       warehouse.                                                                                                                  ventures that would service
        “I engaged a freight company                                                                                               their quickly growing customer
       to pick up the water for us and                                                                                             base the Cool Group
       we operated out of that shed                                                                                                introduced Cool Cafe in 2009.
       for about five years.                                                                                                         Only three years later the
        “Life became a whole lot                                                                                                   company that had been
       easier, and we could focus                                                                                                  supplying embroidery for Cool
       on continuing to grow the                                                                                                   Promotions in Moe, T r icky
       business rather than spending                                                                                               Embroidery, came up for sale
       hours of travelling time.”                                                                                                  and was quickly purchased by
        At the same time the                                                                                                       Cool Group of Companies.
       team rented a small office in
       Commercial Road Morwell                                                                                                       The dream for a one-stop-
       and purchased a print media                                                                                                 shop for all uniform needs
       business.                                                                                                                   started to come to fruition for
        They started printing docket                                                                                               the Cool Group of Companies.
       books, business cards,                                                                                                        Alfi and Gareth wanted to
       producing and printing school                                                                                               move the embroidery business
       magazines.                                                                                                                  to Morwell, where they could
        “From the print media                                                                                                      sell garments and provide the
       business Cool Promotions  Staff numbers grow (left to right) Barry Bechaz, Alfi Prestipino, Gareth Williams, Jamie Sciberras.  embroidery as well.
       was born and that started                                                                                                     This was the beginning of the
       stemming into mainstream  our involvement with more  in growth for bottled water  to maintain ‘local’ took their  shape during this time, they  new era.
       promotional products, printing  recently Hip Pocket, but Cool  after Cool Group’s major local  business to Cool Group of  could see the potential for Cool  Cool Group decided to
       and eventually uniforms,”  Promotions ran that way for a  competitor sold its business  Companies, well known as the  Group and planned to create  become involved with Hip
       Gareth said.            long time.”              to one of Australia’s largest  ‘local boys’.      one group that could service  Pocket and opened their
        “Cool Promotions was more  From 2005 until 2008, the  multinationals.      Alfi’s and Gareth’s vision of  its customers with all business  first store on Vestan Drive in
       or less what has grown into  business saw a huge spike  Clients who also wanted  the business started to take  needs.       Morwell in May 2014.




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