SUPPLIER CONCRETE
Market leader comes from humble beginnings
Drymix was awarded the Mitre 10 Building Products Supplier of the Year at a gala event last year.
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It was way back in 1990, that Gordon Crossan took his first leap into launching what would later become New Zealand’s most successful drymix concrete business. Drymix New Zealand Ltd was born in a shed belonging to the Power Board in central Feilding and, along with his wife, Patricia, Gordon soon set about developing their first tiny plant. It was up and running within three weeks, manufacturing and bagging easy-to-mix and quick setting concretes and mortars. Approximately four years later, that plant moved to its current home in Awa Street, the industrial hub of Feilding and has since grown to cover around two acres. Drymix has seen a lot of growth during those years, both in terms of size, with approximately 30 staff nationwide, extension of product range and new technologies. Now offering a range 4
of different concretes, mortars, plasters, sands, landscape products, cements, bagged asphalt and custom made solutions, Drymix are leaders in their field in New Zealand. But none of this would have been possible without the strong working relationship, unwavering support and mutual respect of the Mitre 10 group. This long standing history began in 1992 when Gordon and Patricia identified an opportunity to join the family of Mitre 10 suppliers by purchasing a company called Cookcrete. Cookcrete offered one product which consisted of a bag of sand with a bag of cement inside. They delivered to two or three Mitre 10 stores, mostly in the Manawatu area. Under the leadership of Murray Gordon McLean, who was CEO at the time, Mitre 10 welcomed Drymix and, over the next several years developed a good, solid working relationship with Mitre 10, Hammer Hardware and Palmers Gardenworld stores.
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