Godfrey Hirst Carpets

Godfrey Hirst Carpets
Public company {NZX:FTX}
Founded Geelong, Australia, AUS (1865)
Headquarters Geelong, Melbourne, Australia
Products Godfrey Hirst
Feltex
Hycraft
Number of employees
 820 New Zealand
500 Australian (October 2006)
Website www.godfreyhirst.com

Godfrey Hirst Carpets is the largest manufacturer and exporter of residential and commercial carpets in Australasia.[1]

The business was founded in Geelong, Victoria, Australia in the late 1800s by Godfrey Hirst, an English immigrant from Meltham, West Yorkshire, England. The business manufactured various wool textiles until it was sold in the 1960s and Godfrey Hirst Carpets began production. Godfrey Hirst acquired Feltex Carpets as an ongoing concern in 2006.

Godfrey Hirst Carpets has production plants in Victoria, Australia and New Zealand. It also has offices in the United States and Singapore and exports throughout Southeast Asia, Japan, USA, the Middle East and other world markets.

The company produces several brands of carpet products for residential and commercial markets.

Notes

  1. ↑ Underhill, Jonathan. Godfrey Hirst lifts carpet sales 3.5%, profit slips on year-earlier one-time gains. National Business Review, New Zealand, 11 December 2014. Accessed 29 May 2015

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