MEN in Business
Showcasing some of the talented males in the workforce from around our local area
MEN in Business
Showcasing some of the talented males in the workforce from around our local area Small business is vibrant in north west Brisbane and surrounding suburbs. New businesses are popping up all the time, driven by inspirational locals.
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Much like the ‘Women in Business’ feature that was showcased in the June issue of The Hills Echo, in this feature, we celebrate some key male employees and business owners who are making a name for themselves in the region. All these gentlemen have major talents, experience, qualifications, and intriguing stories to tell. So, read on to discover more about these talented businessmen within our community. Both our ‘Women in Business’ and ‘Men in Business’ features can be viewed on our website at www.echonews.com.au via their own ‘Mini Mags’. If you would like to participate in edition two of this feature please contact katie@hillsecho.com for more information Queensland is home to more than 445,000 small businesses (those employing less than 20 people) that are at the core of every industry sector. They are in every community in every region, represent over 97% of businesses statewide, and employ approximately 44% of all private sector workers.
Warwick Brown
Director Farmer Browns Pizza & The Farm Shack Farmer Brown’s Pizzas, has earnt its title as one of the area’s most popular mobile catering services in The Hills District, but how did it all begin? The answer is Warwick Brown, a man who spent his childhood living the farm life on the outskirts of Dayboro. From chasing cows, to getting chased by cows, to stacking motorbikes and learning how to gracefully fall off horses, Warwick sure made the most of it. The food especially. In the Brown household, meals were always fresh and jam-packed with flavour due to the numerous veggie patches and fruit trees on their doorstep. However, once childhood was over and Warwick had gained experience working in management, he set out to chase his dream of operating his own small business. Pizza was his passion, and Warwick wanted to share it with our community. December 2015 marked the official launch of his fully licensed, mobile wood-fired pizza set up, Farmer Brown’s Pizzas. All the ingredients are fresh as day, some home grown and some sourced locally. With Warwick’s dedication and young driven team, the business has thrived over the past 6 years, enabling the business to not only add 5 trailers to the Farmer Browns fleet, but also to launch a permanent brick and mortar pizza store in Ferny Hills—the Farm Shack. Not to mention, the booming business has since earned itself a pretty significant following. With a menu full of
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favourites such as Ham and Pineapple, Margherita, and Pepperoni, to fresh new tongue-tinglers like Pesto Pizza, Tandoori Chicken, and Nutella and Marshmallow, Farmer Browns Pizzas has generated a huge community-wide hype, with 3000 loyal Facebook followers and glowing reviews sprinkling the page. Warwick and his pride-filled staff are renowned for their catering skills, their customer service, their personal interactions with patrons, and their ability to deliver molto bene meals to all. The team usually caters for events such as parties, festivals, special occasions, weddings, and fetes. Their mantra is product and service, strongly believing that if you serve a great product with exceptional service, everybody wins. Clearly, Warwick and his dream have come a long way. Farmer Browns Pizzas is now fortunate enough to be booked out most Saturday nights for a few months in advance and The Farm Shack is thriving. His team of nearly 20 staff are his pride and joy, as they all take so much care in what they do. Best yet, with all his success in the suburbs, Warwick never abandoned his roots; he still lives out at Dayboro with his partner and their 2 cattle dogs, a border collie Kip, and a cat Gus. The Farm Shack is open 4pm-8pm Tuesday to Sunday, and its crew welcome the whole community with open arms—and pizzas galore!
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Josh Townsend
Director, Central Electrical and Data Pty Ltd
With 14 years experience in the electrical trade, you can be rest assured that Josh Townsend, owner of Central Electrical and Data Pty Ltd (CED) knows what he is doing! After graduating from Mt Maria College, Josh went on to to complete an electrical apprenticeship. He found a passion for the trade and in March 2013, along with his wife Samantha, went on to establish their own family business, CED. Josh and his team pride themselves on providing quality workmanship, on time and at a reasonable cost. These admirable traits are just a few of the reasons why CED is thriving and now employs four electricians that all live in the local area. In addition, exciting times are ahead with a new apprentice soon to join the ranks as Josh
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and Samantha are expecting a little baby boy in August! As a long-time local, Josh is delighted to be in a position to give back to the community where he can. Every year in CED’s birthday month of March, the team run a community-focused campaign. Last year, five laptops were donated to kids in the local community whose studies were affected by working from home without the right resources during the pandemic. Their 2021 mission was just as admirable, with one tree planted for every job completed during the month of March. This cumulated in the team contributing over 100 trees on behalf of their clients to the Yarra Yarra biodiversity corridor. With a no job too big or small policy, CED proudly work with home and business owners, real estates and local builders, offering a wide range of services.
info@centralelectrical.com.au
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Blaine Woods
Pharmacist and pharmacy co-owner CompoundingPharmacy.com.au
A Queensland pharmacist since 1996, Blaine opened the award-winning Terry White Chemmart Keperra pharmacy in the Great Western Super Centre in 2000. This was soon followed by the launch of Terry White Chemmart Dallas Parade Compounding in 2007, and Terry White Chemmart Samford in 2008. The Dallas Parade pharmacy, which incorporates CompoundingPharmacy.com.au, has been Blaine's focus over the last three years because “it offers endless health solutions", he said. "We help customers who have run out of options in conventional medicine. Compounding is an area where
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you can truly change someone’s life, particularly with pain and autoimmune conditions, skin and hormone imbalances,” Blaine explains. “We’ve also recently added a medicinal cannabis clinic to the practice, and work alongside experienced General Practitioners to support the community in managing their pain and mitigating the side effects of treatments for certain conditions - this emerging area of medicine is showing good results.” For a consultation or script, drop into the pharmacy at 10 Dallas Parade, Keperra; or visit online at www. compoundingpharmacy.com.au
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BradleyButten Principal Professionals Priority Ferny Hills
Bradley is the Principal of the local Professionals office. Life is busy for you and his family is no different married with two children, Vincent, 11 years old and Angel 17 years old. Kaley, his wife works for CSIRO as a research scientist and Bradley is a member of the Marist College ‘Old Boys’. Bradley is very well known across Ferny Hills having been awarded the number 1 referred salesperson for five consecutive years. Bradley’s life experience, dynamic energy and impressive negotiation skill set is what sets him apart from his competitors. After only 8 years, Bradley’s office in the ‘Hills District’ is the number 1 sales office in Ferny Hills through the RateMyAgent group. It’s a great challenge to meet the expectations of people who are selling their family home or investment property
in a constantly changing economic environment and one we as Professionals agents respect deeply. A totally connected agent, Bradley grew up only 2km from the office and his parent still live in the family home, Bradley now lives only a kilometre away and his children are in the local school system. All this helps give Bradley insight into what sellers and buyers want and this has allowed him to deliver for his clients in a way that few agents can. With Bradley’s 14 years’ experience and market knowledge combined with the support of his team, he can ensure his clients are provided with an incredibly professional real estate experience every time. If you are thinking of selling or would like to know the value of your home in this booming property market give Bradley a call on 0412 672 750 for a confidential chat.
#1 Madeleine Hicks Real Estate
p: 3355 6845 a: 2/6 Trouts Road, Everton Park M: 0412 672 750
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Justin Hicks Principal Madeleine Hicks Real Estate Since 2002 the Madeleine Hicks name has been at the forefront of the real estate market in Brisbane’s north western suburbs. An independent Real Estate company, Madeleine Hicks Real Estate has increasingly grown through providing outstanding customer service and the word of mouth referrals that come from serving their clients well. To sustain this growth and maintain their leadership position, the company has elevated Justin Hicks as Principal. Justin is a veteran in the world of Real Estate having worked in the business for 6 years. Prior to that he ran his own construction business, so understands what goes into creating a good property. Justin has undergone an extensive grooming process to ensure that he is fully equipped to not only run the business but to take it to new heights. Madeleine Hicks, founder of Madeleine Hicks Real Estate, is delighted with Justin’s appointment as Principal. “I am thrilled to hand over the reins to Justin as our new Principal. I love the fact that he has the experience and the passion to continue our love affair with the Everton Park and McDowall region. I know that our business will go from strength to strength moving forward,” said Madeleine. Justin said “ I am proud to be stepping up to lead the
business that Madeleine created. We have a team that is absolutely magnificent and always prepared to go that extra step. That is one reason why we are awarded the Rate My Agent, Agency of the Year for Everton Park and McDowall so regularly.” Justin has lived all of his life in the area, having grown up in Peppard St in McDowall, and now building his own family with his partner and 2 small boys, still in McDowall. This local knowledge is something that Justin puts to good use for all of his clients and ensures that home sellers are able to achieve the absolute best price. With the current property market going through the roof in Brisbane, now is the time to get good quality advice about what your property may be worth. Poor information could cost you tens of thousands of dollars. The same applies for people with investment properties. Rents are rising quickly at the moment and the Property Management team at Madeleine Hicks Real Estate are achieving outstanding results for their property investor clients. If you are thinking about selling or want to check that you are achieving the correct amount of rent on your investment property, then contact the team at Madeleine Hicks Real Estate. You will be in good hands. Top Agency for Everton Park & McDowall
Top Agent for Everton Park Justin Hicks Madeleine Hicks Real Estate
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www.madeleinehicks.com.au
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Peter Fairgray Men‘s Health Pharmacist, Running the only Queensland branch of the Mens Health Downunder program FACT: 1 in 5 Australian Men over 40 have difficulty getting an erection FACT: 16471 men in Australia were diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2020 Local pharmacist, Peter Fairgray, knows that men don’t Peter assists men experiencing erectile dysfunction prioritise their health which is what encouraged him to using specialised solutions and has access to a range of specialise as a Men’s Health Pharmacist. medical and compounded products. Peter also assists In 2020 Peter began working with the highly regarded men in their recovery after prostate surgery, with issues Men’s Health Downunder team in Canberra and has of incontinence and medications and devices for the now launched the first clinic in Queensland, based at general health and recovery of the male anatomy, as TerryWhite Chemmart Arana Hills. He specialises in well as to assist in regaining erectile function. helping men and their partners with any issues of the “Many men feel like they have lost their manhood and male anatomy! don’t want to talk about it - that’s a shame when there “Too many men in our community are not accessing the are things they could do to help get function back.” help available to them, suffering in unnecessary silence. comments Peter I’m here to help” says Peter. “They shouldn’t accept The sooner men work on these issues the better, don’t these issues as a part of old age or as part of having put it off. Peter is easy and comfortable to talk to….. had prostate cancer.” Simply take the first step and make an appointment.
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Simon Whitehead & DrewCrump
Real Estate Specialists: Simon Whitehead and Drew Crump Real Estate
‘Drew and Simon were excellent to work with. Their knowledge of the market, approachability, ability to readily communicate with, and professionalism were greatly appreciated. Highly recommended.’ Steve, Ferny Hills Seller
Whitehead & Crump, your local real estate team, specialises in real estate sales through the Brisbane Northern Suburbs. With over 35 years experience combined, Simon Whitehead & Drew Crump, have built a team that offers unrivalled service in every aspect of your real estate experience with them. Recognised for their integrity, energy and quality service, they know
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how to market your property to achieve outstanding results. Growing up in the Hills district, Simon & Drew’s knowledge, passion and love for the area they work and live in is unsurpassed.
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