Inspirations Paint is added to the Northern Beaches offering – with Porters Inspirations Paint Northern Beaches opening in January 2023.

Rebrand of Porters Homemaker Centre at Porters Northern Beaches site.

Northern Beaches gets their own trade centre – with Porters Northern Beaches Trade Centre opening in August 2020.

Porters Mitre 10 Mackay City relaunches under the ‘Sapphire’ store program with Mitre 10.

Inspirations Paint opens in March within the Porters Mackay complex.

Porters announced the acquisition of the Woodman’s Stores in Marian, Sarina and Cannonvale – joining the Mitre 10 buying group in Australia.

Porters Building Supplies opened in March, now Porters Mitre 10 Mackay Trade Centre.

Porters Plumbing Supplies opens in August.

Porters Manufacturing: Glass and Aluminum in Glenella.

Porters Whitsunday Trade Store opened in Cannonvale.

Charlies Coffee Shop opened – introducing ‘food that tastes like home’.

Porters launches Porters Manufacturing: Truss and Frame.

We celebrated 100 years in business.

Porters introduced aluminium windows and doors into the business.

Porters’ Brisbane Street showroom opened where the current Porters Mitre 10 Mackay City business stands today. Their motto was ‘anything in building materials’.

Porters began importing iron from England, glass products from Belgium, paint from America and fibrolite sheeting from France.

Charles Porter attended inaugural meeting to form the Mackay Master Builders Association.

Charles was one of the early contributors to the association. Porters has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Master Builders that still continues today.

Charles Porter introduced hardware and plumbing supplies into the business.

Products included Rogers Paint, Wunderlich Art Metal and various building material products including hot water systems, oil engines, electric light installations, gas and wood stoves.

Charles Porter was involved in the construction of Mackay’s Town Hall.

Charles Porter commenced building Empress of India Hotel (currently Taylors Hotel).

The building was finished in nine months without the use of power tools, ready-mix cement or mechanical lifts. Charles Porter and his building team relied on manual tools of trade, including ladders, winches and transport through horse and bullock drawn carts.