POZITIVE CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Industry supplier Pozitive laid in a spectacular 30th birthday celebration, with staff, customers, suppliers and trade media spending a night at Sydney’s Luna Park with drinks, food, dancing and well wishes from near and far.
A perfect starry night saw guests mingle for drinks on the terrace under the Harbour Bridge, before moving in for a delicious three course meal, interspersed with speeches, and hosted by comedian Sam McCool.
Guests included suppliers from Switzerland, the UK, Korea and Australia, customers old and new, and the 23 Pozitive staff. Andrea Georgiadis, marketing manager at Pozitive, led proceedings, introducing the staff, and paying tribute to owner and husband Phil Trumble, before Adriano Gut, former Pozitive staffer and now Swiss-based product manager at swissQprint recollected his time at Pozitive. MC Sam McCool quipped that as Gut could be considered Swiss Australian ‘he should start on time and knock off early’.
Trumble himself then spoke, recounting the story of Pozitive starting from two men, Ray Clark and David Wager, beginning operations in a garage 30 years ago, and taking him on as the first employee two years later when he was 16 years old. Clark sent a video message of congratulations to the event.
Trumble told how he bought a stake in 2004, and eight years later bought 100 per cent of the company. He said customer service and technical expertise were the pillars of the business. The company continues to grow, it has just opened a Melbourne office.
Following the speech dessert was served, the food throughout being just a spectacular as the setting, after which guests danced the night away to the live band.
