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- 1972: Reg and Hazel Rowe founded an automotive
accessories mail order business
- 1974: Established retail operations
- 1981: Name change to Super Cheap Auto
- 1993: Eight retail stores across Queensland
Sales of $19.4m
- 1997: Organic expansion into New South
Wales
- 1998: Bob Thorn moved to the role of Managing
Director
- 1999: Opened 50th store
Organic expansion into Australian Capital Territory
- 2001: Organic expansion into Victoria and
Northern Territory
- 2002: Achieved '200 in 2' Goal
Opened 100th store
Organic expansion into Tasmania
Completed SAP installation
- 2003: Acquired Marlows - 20 store network
based in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne
Launched first Supercheap Auto stores in New Zealand, across seven
sites in one day
- July 2004: Company lists on the Australian
Stock Exchange
- Dec 2004: Opened 200th Super Cheap Auto
store
- Jan 2005: Acquisition of Queensland based
CampMart's four camping and outdoor leisure stores
Super Cheap Auto announced as the naming rights sponsor of the
Bathurst 1000
- July 2005: Announced plans for launch of BCF
with 12 stores trading by Christmas 2005
- Jan 2006: Peter Birtles appointed as Managing
Director
- May 2006: Announced
plans for reinvigorating the Supercheap Auto business:
(brand name, store format, new products, marketing)
- Oct 2006: Opened sourcing office in
Hangzhou
- June 2008:
Acquisition of Melbourne based Goldcross Cycles with eleven bicycle
and
accessories retail stores, surpasses 300 stores for the Group
- Aug 2008: Supercheap Auto wins 2008 Australian
Retailer of the Year (ARA Award)
- June 2010: Acquisition of Ray's Outdoors, an
outdoor leisure retailer with 38 stores in five Australian states.
Ray's Outdoors was established in 1958 in Geelong as a disposals
store
- November 2010: Super Cheap Auto Group Limited
renamed as Super Retail Group Limited
- June 2011: Supercheap Auto wins 2011
Australian Retailer of the Year (Oracle Retail World Award)
- Oct 2011: Acquisition of the Rebel Group,
including Rebel Sport and Amart All Sports businesses, taking Group
network to 564 stores and over 10,000 team members
- Nov 2011: FCO Fishing Camping Outdoors
officially launched in New Zealand with 10 stores
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