Hardy Brothers

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Hardy Brothers
Company typePrivate Company
Industry Retail
Founded1853, Sydney, Australia
FounderJohn Hardy
Headquarters,
Australia
Area served
Sydney
Brisbane
Melbourne
Perth
Products Jewellery, timepieces and decorative arts
Website Official website

Hardy Brothers is a specialty retailer and private company of fine jewellery, timepieces and decorative arts in Australia. Its historic products are now highly collectible [1] and are held in state and national collections. [2] It is the only Australian jewellery business to hold a royal warrant and since 1980 until has produced the Melbourne Cup. [3]

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History

Former Hardy Brothers Building, Queen Street, Brisbane, 2014 Hardy Brothers Building.jpg
Former Hardy Brothers Building, Queen Street, Brisbane, 2014
Crown of Tonga made by the Hardy Brothers in 1873, as worn by King Tupou VI at his coronation (2015) Kingtupoucropped.jpg
Crown of Tonga made by the Hardy Brothers in 1873, as worn by King Tupou VI at his coronation (2015)

Hardy Brothers was founded in 1853 by Jeweller John Hardy, an Englishman newly arrived in Sydney, NSW, Australia. [4] In 1855, the business moved to Hunter Street, Sydney, NSW and remained there until 1935. [5] In 1894, the business expanded to Queensland with the opening of a store in Queen Street, Brisbane (now heritage-listed as the Hardy Brothers Building). [6]

A store was opened in Collins Street, Melbourne, in 1918. [2] In 1929, Hardy Brothers were appointed jewellers by royal warrant to His Majesty King George V. The business remained in family control until 1974 and was then taken over in 1980 by Qintex and controlled by that company until 1988. It was then bought by the McKinney family [7] and lastly by Wallace Bishop in 1997. Wallace Bishop is a family owned jewellery company established in 1917 and now run by the fourth generation. Stuart Bishop is the current CEO. [8] [9]

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Top hat from Hardy Brothers.

Managing directors

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The Collins Street Melbourne Store

Chief executives

Stores

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