Nambour’s Stihl Shop wins Regional Dealer of the Year
The Kendray family – Andrew and Catherine and their daughters Georga, Dana and Rebecca – outside their temporary Rigby Street premises.
From ashes to accolades
Nambour’s Stihl Shop has been named Stihl’s Regional Dealer of the Year for the second year in a row, despite a fire which gutted their business in February.
The family business, operated by Andrew and Catherine Kendray and their daughtersm, Rebecca, Dana and Georga, has now won the award three times in the past five years.
The most recent award has been a bright spot in a difficult year for the Kendrays, who have been working hard to keep the business running after fire gutted their premises in February.
They have been straddling two nearby locations in Rigby Street while wrestling with their insurance company.
Family spokeswoman Georga said dealing with the insurance company had been a protracted process. “They fired the loss adjustor halfway through and then they had to start from scratch again with a new loss adjustor, engineer and builder,” she said. “It was really frustrating but we’ve finally got there.”
Georga said a conversation between her father and a customer, Tony, had led to a deal with Sunstruct and a rebuild of the fire-damaged premises on the corner of Coronation Avenue was underway. “They’ve gutted all the internals. They’ve had engineers in to do a mezzanine floor. Next is the roof, and once the roof is done, the rest of the internals will be done,” she said.
The Kendrays hope they will be back in their building by Christmas.