L.J. Hooker
Nobody Does it Better
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| Industry | Real Estate |
| Founded | 1928, Maroubra, New South Wales |
| Founder | Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, New South Wales |
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Area served
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Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, China and Hong Kong |
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Key people
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| Products | Franchising Real Estate solutions |
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| Owner | Each LJ Hooker office is independently owned and managed by its franchisees |
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Number of employees
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8000 |
| Website | www.ljhooker.com.au |
LJ Hooker is an Australian Real Estate company with an extensive franchise network across Australia. Its iconic red and yellow signage and slogan “Nobody does it better” are widely known. LJ Hooker was founded in 1928 by Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker and after a separation of some 20 years the company returned to family hands in 2009.
The company was established in 1928 by Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker in Maroubra, New South Wales.
In 1935 he opened the first city office of LJ Hooker at 12 O’Connell Street, Sydney. In 1936 the business expanded into Kensington, New South Wales, Kingsford, New South Wales and Randwick, New South Wales. By 1938 the company was in the position to purchase H.L. Cross & Co. and relocated to the heart of the city on the corner of Martin Place and Pitt Street. After the Depression and the Second World War, the company floated on the on 1 July 1947.
LJ Hooker Investment Corporation Limited was formed in 1958 to allow LJ Hooker to deal with a more diverse range of real estate areas including hotel and leisure, music, land and building trusts, pastoral holdings and housing and land subdivision. In 1958 Hooker bought Festival Records from its original owners, the merchant bank Mainguard, and he even established his own boutique label, Rex, (named after his Sydney hotel) as a Festival subsidiary. But Festival was losing money during this period, just prior to the beginning of the Sixties pop boom, and Hooker eventually sold the struggling label to News Limited in 1961.
In 1973, Mr. LJ Hooker was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his service to commerce and the community in Australia.
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