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A L OCAL SUCCESS STORYY
A LOC AL SUCCESS STOR
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This striking banner highlighted the construction of The roof bearings go on at the Hip Pocket Latrobe The state-of-the-art retail showroom of Hip Pocket
Hip Pocket Latrobe Valley’s new home. Valley building in Morwell. Latrobe Valley.

T o say that the Hip Pocket Latrobe Hip Pocket Latrobe Valley has
Valley store has upgraded is an conference rooms upstairs where
understatement. accredited training providers will
The original store in Vestan Drive, conduct safety training, first aid and
Morwell had a retail space of 300 specialised training that is required in
square metres. The new building has the industry, emphasising the safety
over 1200 square metres of retail side of the business.
space, in addition, the total complex Alfi said the group realised they
is in excess of 2500 square metres, needed to upgrade their space when
plenty of room to move! they started work on larger jobs
Hip Pocket Latrobe Valley at 1 around the country.
Hollie Drive, Morwell, is hard to miss The larger space also means that
from the street, the impressive huge Hip Pocket Latrobe Valley have the
building is bright red with a huge Hip ability to expand their range and move
Pocket logo for all to see, and has into new sectors, such as supplying
multiple car parking spaces. school wear, hospitality, corporate
The huge industrial-looking retail and the healthcare sector.
space is filled with a massive range After a further eight months of
of clothing, shoes, construction planning the project started and the
management equipment and is even Cool Group of Companies struck
stocked with signage for businesses Signing the contract: Alfi Prestipino and Walter Furlan from Furlan Constructions. ground at the new facility almost a
opening with current coronavirus year ago to the day.
restrictions. Hip Pocket Latrobe Valley boasts of Alfi says he has never been involved we would build using as many locals The huge Hip Pocket Latrobe
On entering the store the staff are being the largest Hip Pocket store in in a build such as the new store as we could, and the furthest we Valley store is open and welcoming
friendly and open, ready to help Australia. before, and it was hard work and a have had to trek out of the Latrobe customers, but the manufacturing
with suggestions for equipment and In the six years since opening Hip big learning curve. region, but still in Gippsland, was plant has had some delays because
clothing sizes. Pocket Latrobe Valley, the store is in The new store, or as they refer to Pakenham,” he said. of the coronavirus pandemic.
There is even a corner of the store the top five for sales nationwide, the it, ‘the big red shed’ took about 11 “We kept the majority of the money The Cool Group of Companies
dedicated to the business that employee base has increased to 18 months to build. local and that was an agreement envisage the manufacturing site will
started it all, with Cool Aqua Springs since opening the new store, and is “When we received the grant we that we made with our builder, Furlan be open and processing by the end
merchandise ready to be snapped up expected to grow to 24 by the end of made a promise to ourselves that Constructions.” of the year.
by local customers. next year.

C o n g ratulati n s
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A l fi & G a r e t h

What a great achievement!

Thank you for supporting and using local Businesses.
Thank you to all our Suppliers & Subcontractors.
To Alfi, Gareth and the team It has been a Pleasure to work with you
Congratulations on your new build and a massive Walter, Joanne and the T e am GP1609461
thank you on behalf of the team here at
Hekton Joinery for allowing us to be apart of it.
Goodluck and best wishes GP1609135 GP1609135 walter@furlan.com.au

8 1 Alexanders Road 040 2 3 0 9 2 8 7

MORWELL 3840 Phone: 0408 546 7 4 0 furlan.com.au

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