2004
Family Business Australia

4th Generation Winner - Packer Leather

Packer Leather is a fifth generation family business, under the leadership of owner – Lindsay Packer – Fourth Generation.

Packer Leather is a family company with a proud tradition in the leather industry since 1891. Currently there are fourth and fifth generation Packers intimately involved in the management and ongoing operations of the company. Packer has seen the evolution of tanning from a purely craft based industry to its current use of modern technology and scientific methods. As a leather manufacturer and finisher, Packer purchases skins and hides in raw and semi-processed states, and uses state of the art technology to make finished leather. Renowned as Australia’s largest finished Kangaroo leather producer, the company exports to some 25 countries with key markets in Indonesia and Hong Kong. With five family members involved in a business that employs 160 staff, strong employment criteria, remuneration structures and training systems are in place to ensure that all staff, both family and non-family are performing the job best suited to their skills and experience.

The Packer family believes that what is best for the business will always translate as best for the family. However, the converse is not always true, but in a broader sense, the family culture must always be preserved with its ethics and beliefs.