camping, 4WD and auto brands in Australia

Introduction

AHA was formed in in 2017 in order for Odyssey Private Equity to acquire camping equipment company OZTrail
own:
- Oztrail: acquired in 2017 after Whittaker family sold the OZtrail business to Odyssey Private Equity
- Companion Brands: acquired in 2018 after Primus Australia had bought and traded under the Melbourne-based Companion Brands which had formed in 1995 (“Companion” had been making gas appliances since the 1970s at least)
  - Companion Brands distributes many of the world's leading outdoor brands including: Campfire, Everclear, Elemental, Popup, Roman, Travel Chef, Zebra, COI Leisure, Hammerhead, Havasac, Jack Jumper, Keep Cold, Kookaburra, Life+Gear, 4×4 Equip and of course their own brand Companion
- acquired underground mining services business MST Global from Macquarie Group in 2018
- OzPig: acquired in 2022 after it was founded in 2006 by the Shepherd family
- CampFire: - cast iron camp cookware and tableware
- Jamec Pem: - industrial tyre inflation tools
- TradeFlame: - industrial heating tools

https://www.superretailgroup.com.au established in 1972 with founding of Supercheap Auto by Reg and Hazel Rowe
own:
- BCF Boating Camping Fishing: after acquiring CampMart business in Jan 2005 and then launched the BCF brand in Oct 2005
  - Wanderer brand registered by BCF in 2008
- Ray's Outdoors:
- Macpac: acquired in April 2018 to integrate it with Ray's Outdoors
  - founded by Bruce McIntyre in Christchurch when he started making backpacks
- Rebel Sport: acquired in Nov 2011 after it was founded in 1985 and for a while was listed on ASX
- Supercheap Auto
  - acquired the Perth based Marlows business in May 2003
  - brands:
    - SCA

https://www.oztent.com.au
a family owned and run business founded by by inventor Joe Viglione who was frustrated by tents that took so long to set up and his 1st working tent was produced in 1994

formed in 1914 as a cooperative company by the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of Western Australia
became a freely-traded publicly listed in 2001
acquired the Coles Group in 2007 after Myer had been divested in 2006 from Coles Group, then Coles Group Ltd was spun-off from Wesfarmers on 21 November 2018
now owns:
- Bunnings
  - became fully owned by Wesfarmers in Jan 1994
  - bought UK retailer Homebase in 2016 then sold it at a loss in 2018
- Kmart
  - Kmart tyre and auto business was sold to German company Continental AG and now rebranded as MyCar
- Target Australia (no connection to the American retailer Target of similar name)
- BBC Hardware
- Coles Ansett Travel
- Comnet
- Fosseys
- Grocery Holdings Pty Ltd
- Harris Technology
- Howard Smith
- Katies Fashions
- and others

established in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor East by John Barbuto (JB) in 1974 who sold the business in 1983
owns:
- The Good Guys (acquired in 2016)

US company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio and named after American Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor of vulcanized rubber.
owns:
- Dunlop Tyres
  - the Irish Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, established the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia in Melbourne in 1893 but in 1899, it was sold to create a new Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia which was then floated on the stock market and in 1906, name changed to the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia.
  - in 1969, it acquired Ansell Rubber
  - in the 1980's, Beaurepaires and Olympic Tyre & Rubber Co. join together with the Dunlop Group to form Dunlop & Olympic Tyres, then naming themselves Pacific Dunlop Ltd.
  - in the 1980's, Pacific Dunlop and Goodyear formed a joint venture that consolidated both companies tyre manufacturing operations in the Asia Pacific region named South Pacific Tyres, or SPT. SPT made tyres featuring the Dunlop, Goodyear and Olympic brands.
  - Pacific Brands was spun off from Pacific Dunlop in 2001 and this component was acquired by Hanesbrands in 2016
  - in 2002, Pacific Dunlop was renamed Ansell which maintained 50% ownership of South Pacific Tyres with Goodyear until 2006. SPT was closed in 2008 and changed to Goodyear and Dunlop Tyres in 2009.¹⁾
  - brands: Goodyear, Dunlop, Olympic, Beaurepaires

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