Laeeqa Jade Rowell

Ms Siva

Business Studies 5

Business report

The Business:

  • Outline of Business

Tatham Cutlery is a plastic moulding and ultra sonic welding company that was first establish in 1919 and is 100% Australian owned and operated. The company started, originally manufacturing, in metal, but most of those products have become archaic and replaced, such as ‘the Dexter Motor car Indicator’. In 1923 Tatham produced the first of its own products, the Bean slicer, under the trademark Krisk© and with its development the company moved into plastic injection moulding, ultra sonic welding and shop ready packaging.

  • Location

Tatham is currently operating from 24-26 Mary Parade, Rydalmere 2116 NSW Australia but has previously been at the locations of Lee St, Sydney (adjacent to Central station) and Stuart St, Padstow.

  • Ownership and Executive

The Company currently has three major shareholders, Geoffrey D. Rowell, Marion P. Rowell and Mark D. Rowell who is also General Manager; there is one other person in the executive, Managing Director, Joanne L. Rowell.

  • The products and business

Tatham has three products of their own that they fully manufacture and package themselves:

  • The Krisk® Bean Slicer
  • The Krisk® Julienne Slicer
  • The Krisk® Knife and Scissor Sharpener

The Krisk® product line are a little more then a third of Tatham’s business

The next third of the Company’s business is with the well known pharmaceutical company, ‘Tyco Healthcare’, packaging products such as earplugs, breast pumps, tablet cutters and dispensers etc.

And finally the last third of business is with the various other products that Tatham manufactures such as battery cases for walky-talkies, used by police officers, vacuum and pressure forming, tool making and exporting.

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Operations

  • Products

- The Krisk® Bean Slicer:

 

The Krisk® Bean Slicer removes strings and ends of each bean with ease, made by injection moulding ultra sonic welding and product assembly.

The Krisk® Julienne Slicer slices any long vegetable into long, thin, bite size pieces and is made in a similar way to the Bean Slicer. Injection moulded plastic, blade assembling and then welded to secure.

 

The Krisk® Knife and Scissor Sharpener is used by running the knife or scissor blade between the two prongs and repeat. This instrument is made by ...

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