{"id":84852,"date":"2014-10-15T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T07:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=84852"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T04:57:44","slug":"family-business-celebrates-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/10\/15\/family-business-celebrates-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Celebrates 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill Hull and Jacqui Trace … celebrating 30 years of motor sales in Kingaroy on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 15, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirty years ago Bill and Rhonda Hull bought a car dealership in Knight Street, Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

“It was October 1984,” Bill recalled this week. “It was the existing Mazda dealership but in reality it was not much more than a mechanical workshop.”<\/p>\n

It quickly became a real family business for Bill and Rhonda.<\/p>\n

The couple had two mechanics on the payroll but did just about everything else themselves.<\/p>\n

Bill still remembers his first sale of a new car with pride.<\/p>\n

“It was a Mazda 929 and it was bought by Tony Dicks from Kumbia,” he said.<\/p>\n

Over the next five years, the couple slowly built the business up, putting on another mechanic and an employee to handle spare parts.<\/p>\n

In 1985, they added the Subaru dealership and in 1986, the Daihatsu dealership.<\/p>\n

In October 1989, the Hulls made a big step, leaving Knight Street to move into new premises on the corner of Avoca and Kingaroy streets.<\/p>\n

“We just kicked off from there,” Bill said.<\/p>\n

The Bill Hull Car Centre building has since been extended three times as the business continued to grow.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, the couple turned the existing workshop into a Mazda showroom and constructed a new, much larger workshop at the rear of the building.<\/p>\n

Bill and Rhonda permanently retired from the business in 2011, handing over the reins to their daughter Jacqui and her husband Brett Trace.<\/p>\n

However, Bill hasn’t been able to keep away lately, helping out in the build-up to the business’s 30th birthday celebrations this weekend.<\/p>\n

From 8:30am on Saturday there will be a free barbecue, food, drinks, a jumping castle and showbags at the dealership to help celebrate the big anniversary.<\/p>\n

Hamish from HOT-FM will also be broadcasting from the site.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 10:00pm: To top off a big week for the business, \u00a0Bill Hull Car Centre this evening won the “Medium Business” award category at the inaugural Heritage Business Excellence Awards presented at Kingaroy Town Hall.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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