The Greenridge Group, printer of On Our Selection News, last week celebrated 30 years since its founding.

Based in Toowoomba at large premises in Wilsonton, Greenridge has expanded immensely over the past three decades, from its humble beginnings of five staff in 1992 to almost 50 in 2022.

Mark Osborne founded the business with the help of his wife Fran and has since passed the reins to son Kyal, the Managing Director.

Younger son Luke is also involved with the family business.

Mr Osborne said it had taken a lot of hard work and dedication to get to where they are today.

“To be honest, I never even imagined I’d still be in this business at all!” Mr Osborne said.

“I’d just gone into business on my own for the first time, we had five staff members, and I was working around 60 hours per week.”

A large part of Greenridge’s expansion has been through acquiring other businesses, including its largest competitor in Toowoomba, Cranbrook Press, in 2004 and Warwick’s Creed and Lang.

Kyal Osborne said the focus over the last decade has been expanding the business, which now includes six separate brands.

From a small offset press, where anything requiring colour had a six-week turn-around, the annual turnover is over $10 million.

Greenridge has been printing On Our Selection News and its sister publications since April 2019.

Newspapers are just one of many different things being printed, which include flyers, catalogues, corflutes and food packaging labels.

The company’s printing expertise has been acknowledged on a national level, recently winning multiple awards at the 39th National Print Awards in Melbourne, the highest recognition you can receive in the industry.

Greenridge won the gold, silver and bronze for the Regional Printer of the Year – over 12 employees for print perfection and was recognised as the Best Regional Printing Company in Australia.

This article appeared in On Our Selection News, 11 August 2022.