Cubro is excited to join forces with Bunzl, a partnership that strengthens our ability to grow and support our customers even better. While we embark on this new chapter, our leadership remains the same, ensuring you continue to receive the high levels of technical expertise, service, and support you trust.
We are now partnering with key distributors across Australia catering to healthcare professionals across community, hospital and aged care looking to bring our solutions specialist philosophy to the market.
Recognising the freedom and independence a powered wheelchair offers, we have established a powered wheelchair offering for the New Zealand market. With quality brands such as Alltrack and Bounder we have a wide range of powered wheelchairs available.
We're excited to now offer one of the largest range of paediatric equipment solutions in New Zealand. Tailoring each piece of equipment to suit the specific needs of each child, we pride ourselves on providing personalised solutions that help our youngest clients live life to the fullest.
To allow customers to experience the latest surgical equipment and digital integration technology first hand, we opened a state-of-the-art operating theatre showroom at our Tauranga headquarters.
Driven by our commitment to making a positive impact beyond healthcare, we established a Corporate Social Responsibility programme. This initiative allows us to support local communities, champion sustainability, and give back in meaningful ways, reinforcing our dedication to ethical and responsible business practices.
Our team went from big to, well, bigger! We continue to employ skilled, talented locals where needed to help drive our operations and deliver unrivaled customer service. We were excited to hire our 100th Cubro team member in 2018.
After a few years in the making, we moved into a brand new agile office environment, designed to foster collaboration and provide employees with a strong sense of wellbeing. With chef-prepared healthy food options provided each day and an in-house gym, this space has been designed with the whole team in mind.
With our rapidly expanding product range, we remained committed to maintaining high service standards and support. To achieve this, we focused on attracting top talent. By the end of 2012, our team had tripled in size from the previous year, strengthening our operations nationwide.
To elevate our service, we established our own delivery team to handle deliveries and installations of complex equipment and large projects, ensuring everything is in place, set up correctly, and ready for safe use from the start.
We expanded nationwide by opening our Wellington branch, following our success in Auckland and Christchurch, to better serve the capital.
We saw the need for custom solutions, especially for those at risk of pressure injuries, so we built an in-house upholstery team for bespoke designs. We also set a new standard in aftercare by offering dedicated support services, rare in the industry.
With an ever-expanding product range and specialised team, we designed a purpose-built warehouse and office on Hynds Road.
With demand increasing, we recognised the need to ensure that all New Zealanders could access our range of quality healthcare equipment solutions. By the end of 2004 we had established branches in both Auckland and Christchurch.
Continued growth saw the need for us to expand our new Headquarters in Melane Street in 1997, to create larger warehouse and office areas.
The company was growing rapidly and despite their love for the Hawkes Bay, the Currie families decided that moving to the sunny Bay of Plenty would be the best move for the business. With its central location and established port, the Bay of Plenty provided greater opportunities for expansion.
The Currie brothers first invented the Gib Lifter to fit plasterboard to ceilings in a Doctor's office in Hastings, New Zealand. The Doctor thought the safe lifting device was ingenious and asked the brothers about their other inventions, that could support patients. And so began, Cubro's long history of supplying healthcare equipment to help medical professionals deliver the best care.
