Hills Hoist

[Eldorado]

Hills have sold the rights to produce the Hills Hoist to AMES Australasia.So another great Australian product will be made in China.I understand that things can be produced cheaper in China but it is a real shame that a lot of things that we grew up knowing as iconic Australian products are no longer.Im guessing a lot of you guys remember swinging around on the clothesline and getting told off by your mother or chucking a tarp over it for a bit of shade for a backyard party.We have one of the Hills in our backyard and it is still in great condition,it would have to be 50 or so years old,can't see them lasting that long if made in China.People say "Buy Australian",that will become a little hard if we keep going the way we are headed.Shame.

 

[stoyve]

Absolutely true Eldorado,
We have sold out our country big time

 

[limpalot]

We havn't, our grubber handed polly's and greedy companies have.

 

[Eldorado]

Fosters- UK maybe we can do without Fosters.
Peters and Streets-Dutch company Unilever
Cottees-Japan
Vegemite-owned by Us company but still made here.
Arnotts-American Campbell soup company
Uncle Toby's-Australian since the 1800s,now owned by Cereal Partners Worldwide SA.
Bushells Tea-Dutch Unilever
Speedo-UK
Aeroplane Jelly-American
All great iconic Australian products.As Derryn Hinch once said "Shame,Shame,Shame "

 

[xcvator]

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[silver]

B@$t@rd$, it's times like this I just wanna shut my eyes and live in a nether land, rather than believe some b@$r@rd'$ got a right somehow to do these things to us ,.... they were never real aussies in the first instance to let the likes of these things come to be upon all our heads as they are ,.... even those scoundrels that would have us believe they stand for us have let it be still that the likes of themselves can come here from overseas and be such as they are ! My friends, my countymen, let it be that pauline sweeps the likes of these wiked wiked b@$t@rd $ into the sea of derelict ventures where they can sink to the bottom and placate themselves no more with the twisted screaming pulling of our hearts and befuddled fogging of our minds !

 

[jethro]

Its our kids just starting out in the workforce that I feel sorry for. very few opertunities for an apprenticeship or traineeship in skilled or semiskilled manufacturing. All businesses these days aim for the lowest common denominators,( ie wages & overheads, raw materials) that will still turn out a product that is saleable. As long as it lasts the 12 month statutory warranty period shes all good. I remember when TVs lasted 10 to 15yrs. and when they did eventually die there was someone local who could fix them. I swear that our latest Tv had a timer in it that was set to go off 2 months outside the stated warranty period, same with washing machines & dishwashers Ive had recently.

 

[jethro]

Another that went by the wayside very early on was Tarax soft drinks. Founded in country Victoria, (Numurkah ) they were taken over by Cadbury Schweppes in the 70s then schweppes was taken over by asanti brewing in the 2000s. Check out wikipedia.

 

[casper]

a recurring topic ....

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=134690#p134690

http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/denniscj/glugs/stoneg.html
read to the end - absolutely brilliant!!

casper

 

[Occasional_panner]

Unfortunately "Shareholder profits" have played a big part in manufacturing going overseas, the boards of these companies are to blame for that, not government.

Excessive union demands another reason manufacturing has gone overseas.

People's love of cheap products, so so many times someone has come to me and said,"look at this, I just had to have it as it was just so cheap"

 

[silver]

They should be branded unpatriotic and a law passed enabling then to be jailed (those type board members).

 

[isolation]

People's love of cheap products, so so many times someone has come to me and said,"look at this, I just had to have it as it was just so cheap"

Yep, I think consumer choices have played a big part too. You can't blame people who are doing it tough buying cheap imported products, but where we can, buying Australian should be our first choice.

 

[Bazz]

All so very sad

Rumour mill is circling around Murray Goulburn as possibly next, considering what they have done to their farm producers I suppose there will be little love loss, but still once these companies are sold in to foreign hands it's an almost impossible task to get them back.

For my 2 cents worth : we have had so many brilliant products, companies, land and so on, it's really hard to sit back and watch it squandered regardless of the reasons.

RIP : Hills Hoist and so many others