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OverviewRossi Boots is a South Australian boot manufacturer founded in 1910. Today, the business employs more than 50 people and continues to operate both the factory and headquarters in Kilburn, South Australia. Rossiters PTY. LTD. Is still owned by the Rossiter family and run the business under the guiding principles embedded by founder, Arthur Rossiter when he started the business in his backyard tin shed. Today fourth generation Rossiter’s are involved in multiple business areas providing an increased infusion of energy to push the business into the future. Over the 110-year history the business has made boots for a wide range of people, industries and uses. Rossi Boots work with a network of distributors shipping to ship more than 150,000 pairs of boots worldwide every year. HistoryRossi Boots started in 1910 when Arthur Edward Rossiter resigned from his position as a supervisor at the Adelaide Boot Company and started Rossiters Ltd in a small tin shed in his own backyard. Arthur’s move was not popular with his previous employers and it was a struggle to gain customers, but hard work and a dedication to the task kept the business going until the arrival of the First World War. The need for footwear at this time eased the job of getting orders but the experience was to prove very useful when the depression years arrived. A bigger and larger factory was needed so the first of three stages of factory was built. The depression years were hard years and getting orders proved difficult. During these times Arthur would travel Australia on the trains to get orders, no matter how small, from the little isolated communities scattered about the countryside. Such dedication proved successful as the company managed to survive the depression without losing any staff. This was obviously appreciated by the staff as some thirteen of them went on to serve fifty years with the company, and many more served over forty. During the Second World War Rossi Boots was a major supplier to the military making hundreds of thousands of boots which saw service in various theatres including Papua New Guinea. In fact it is said that “transport courtesy of Rossi” was a much repeated phrase during the war.A story has also been told of Americans swapping an ice cream machine for a pair of Rossi Boots.The war years saw the number of employees peak at around five hundred. In the years after the war, materials were scarce and it was then when the company introduced the concept of using old car tyres as a soling for boots. Gradually since then the methods of manufacturing footwear have changed as petroleum based products such as glues, rubbers and plastics have replaced the traditional ones of leather, nails and threads.More modern machinery has been introduced than can directly mould soles to the bottom of boots and can easily pull leather over a last. At the end of 1987 the company moved from Unley to Hilton. The move allowed production to be carried out in a more modern factory especially fitted out for the purpose. Since then the company has continued to innovate by introducing the computer controlled machines for cutting, sewing and attaching soles. These have been introduced when many of Rossi’s competitors have moved offshore. Whilst the introduction of these machines has reduced the need for as many staff that were once employed, they have ensured that Rossi Boots continue to be manufactured in Australia. In March of 2019 Rossi Boots relocate the factory, warehouse and headquarters from Hilton to Kilburn, South Australia. This move to a new, expansive location allows Rossi Boots to continue to manufacture boots in South Australia and continue to house all operations under one roof.
ProductsRossi Boots manufactures and sells more than 150,000 pairs of boots annually and distributes to a network of global suppliers. Best known for their elastic sided Endura work boots, Rossis as they’re often referred, are designed and manufactured to withstand a hard days work. ReferencesExternal links
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