South Australia. Getting on with business.
South Australia. Getting on with business.
2017 Annual Small Business Statement
SMALL BUSINESS IS AT THE HEART OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY.
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2017 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SMALL BUSINESS STATEMENT
GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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Northern Adelaide's Meat Kings
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2017 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SMALL BUSINESS STATEMENT
D&S Quality Meats
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GETTING ON WITH BUSINESS
Brothers Danny and Shane Gramazio grew up working in their parents' Dublin butcher shop before deciding to go out on their own, buying their first store in Springbank Plaza in Burton at the age most young men are thinking of buying their first car.
"We brought all our knowledge of what we had learnt in our parents' country store and we tried to replicate it in the city," says Danny.
"We quickly noticed that city people were very different with their eating and shopping habits.
"Country people are happy to take frozen meat and buy in bulk as they don't like shopping very often. But city people buy nightly, deciding what's for tea at around 4pm on the day, so they needed quickcooking, easy meals.
"We came up with a few new products and built a good relationship with our customers, always giving them the same great quality we had in the country but with more pre-prepared, ready-made meals."
Two years after starting their business, the brothers were running a successful small business and turning over a healthy profit.
They've faced some ups and downs since then, particularly the dent to business confidence in northern Adelaide following Holden's closure announcement. But with a strong focus on growth, smart and affordable advertising, and finding and retaining quality staff, the Gramazio brothers weathered the storms and made the most of the downturns by taking up leases in empty shops.
In 2015 the second D&S Quality D&S Quality Meats now employs
Meats outlet opened at Blakes Crossing, and the business has since grown rapidly across northern Adelaide.
With the assistance of the Small
30 staff in stores located at Angle Vale, Blakeview, Burton, Mawson Lakes, Munno Para, Smithfield and Golden Grove.
Business Development Fund,
D&S Quality Meats has been able to continue its
strong growth. They have recently opened their
eighth store at Gilles Plains to feed the thriving
communities of Adelaide's north.
"2017 has started with retail being very negative, not just in the north, but everywhere," says Danny.
"Even though our sales are down a bit, we aren't worried and we're not going to buy into the negativity that we have seen almost every year for one reason or another.
"We are just focusing on what we are doing and sticking to our business plan of providing customers great quality meat with quick and easy ready-made meals for busy people on the go."
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