The following article was originally published by BRW and can be read at their website here.
Prime Build co-founder Dean Willemsen says ‘we think if we do the right thing by our subbies they’ll do the right thing by us’.
Co-founded six years ago by two carpenters then aged 23 and 22, western Sydney’s Prime Build has become a preferred supplier for the likes of K-mart, Myer and Aldi with practices which are unusual by building industry standards.
“We’re always questioning the established way of doing things,” says general manager Dean Willemsen, who along with construction manager Tim Thompson has created an employer of 40 people expected to turn over $30 million in 2014-15, after becoming Australia’s fourth-fastest growing company with a 195 per cent average annual increase in turnover in the three years to 2013-14.
