A New Zealand firm has become Australasia's largest commercial flooring company after making two acquisitions across the Ditch.
Flooring Brands announced yesterday it had bought New South Wales' JBR Flooring and Fitout, and Canberra-based Q Commercial during the past month.
The move builds on its purchase of Queensland's Master Kelwin group in 2010, a company that has fitted-out the state government, major hotels and private hospitals with flooring.
Flooring Brands' two new companies will be rebranded as Master Kelwin and form a group that will be a transtasman, multi-state commercial flooring business in Australia and New Zealand.
Flooring Brands' founder, chief executive and chairman, Rodney Martin, said the acquisitions make Master Kelwin three times larger than its nearest competitor in Australia.