date:May 29, 2014
the family company at the end of the World War, the business had two retail grocery stores in Melbourne (South Yarra and Richmond).
It is known that the family went into grocery bulk-buying and wholesaling and distribution, and later adapted from the United States the idea of branching into convenience stores and subsequently expanded into franchising. It appears that what the Withers family initially created as a defensive move into convenience stores out of a concern about the growing strengt