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185:-based CSI Doors and Catalyst Investment Managers Proprietary Limited and, in 2003, acquired Automatic Technology Australia (ATA) to become Australia ’s largest door opener manufacturer. In 2004 it was bought by Australian company Alesco. In 2005 bought out its largest competitor in the New Zealand market, Dominator New Zealand, to become the largest door and opener manufacturer across 27: 160:
Sydney Home Show in 1956. The door was made of compressed metal sheets fastened together and was the first all-steel door that could be rolled and unrolled without cracking. B&D introduced the slogan, "Even a child can open it" for a safe, secure garage door that would not slam shut and was easy
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In 2000 B&D Doors sold the five millionth garage door worldwide, a figure that included more than 2.5 million Roll-A-Doors in Australia alone. In 2001 B&D was acquired by
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is an Australian company founded in 1946 that manufactures metal doors, sash, trim products, and shutters for residential and industrial garage doors and
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The Cure Cancer Foundation of Australia (Cure Cancer Australia) was founded by B&D founder Arthur Byrne in 1979.
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B&D was founded in 1946 as a steel fabricating business by Arthur Byrne and Paul Davidson with and £140 in
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and exporting the Roll-A-Door to New Zealand, and by 1963 the company was in the United States and Europe.
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In 1957 B&D founder Paul Davidson left the company and Ray Willoughby was appointed.
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In the 1960s B&D went national, opening a factory in
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In 1985 Arthur Byrne and Ray Willoughby sold B&D to
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"Developer of a ubiquitous symbol of Australian suburbia"
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Australia's greatest inventions
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