Meet Melbourne's newest emerging commercial builders.

ABOUT US

We provide an expertise and passion for delivering unique and diverse projects.

Our experienced team have delivered a wide range of complex builds for over a decade in the commercial industry priding ourselves on quality workmanship, developing strong client relationships and efficiency. We work across a variety of retail industry areas including food, health and retail with a particular interest in the hospitality sector.

We believe our experience and knowledge of the requirements in meeting the high standards of compliance within the food retail industry allows us to excel in delivering quality outcomes which meet the approval of industry regulators. In addition our understanding of the Australian building standards and compliance has allowed us to see successful projects in the construction of many other diverse retail and health practitioners premises over the years.

We are committed to strong communication and building relationships with our clients which remains a key objective of ours, as we know the best outcomes are achieved when we approach the construction as a team.

We look forward to potentially working on your next project together, please don’t hesitate to give us a call, we are more than happy to provide quotation for your future build or discuss any of your commercial construction needs.

Commercial Builder Melbourne Shopfitters and Construction

GET TO KNOW US

Meet the Retail Outfit family

Jack Reade

Director

Jack founded Retail Outfit in 2020 when he stepped away as a long term employee of a well known commercial shopfitting company to start his own journey in retail construction.

Initially Jack entered shopfitting as a mature age apprentice at the age of 20 after completing a course in Furniture Technology at RMIT. Despite being accepted into Industrial Design at Swinburne to continue his studies, Jack had a strong pull to entering full time work and to put his new skills into practice, deciding to defer his acceptance.

During his early years as an apprentice Jack was fortunate enough to represent Australia in the World Skills Competition in Sydney having been selected by his instructors at his trade school. After successfully completing his apprenticeship Jack continued to travel all over Australia completing builds and supervising sites for major Australian retailers on behalf of his employers.

After 10 years and with a strong belief in his skills and expertise Jack successfully interviewed for his commercial construction licence after 6 months of additional study and founded Retail Outfit with a passion in assisting his clients to achieve the best outcome for the construction of their businesses. Now a registered building practitioner Jack has found that being a business owner was a natural progression of his experience in the industry and maturation of his skills and knowledge within shopfitting.

Ashleigh Klar

Assistant Coordinator

Ashleigh finds communicating with others including clients and trades in order to achieve shared goals as well as tracking data and analysis the most rewarding part of the role.

Gavin Turner

Lead Shopfitter

Gavin is a frequent help on our work sites providing skilled labour and a friendly attitude. He brings a wealth of experience and 'can do' mentality to our team.

OUR PROCESS

Let us guide you through each step of the way.

Guiding you with knowledge and experience

We often come across clients who are so eager to get their businesses off the ground and see out their dreams, they often don’t realise the work behind setting up a commercial tenancy, particularly when moving into a big shopping centre or similar organisation. Often there is a lot of work around planning and design, meeting building requirements and then having to go through all the approvals required by these organisations themselves. Shopfitting is a very niche area of the commercial industry and our experience working in these environments allows us to guide our clients through these obstacles using our knowledge and experience with constructing retail spaces to assist our customers to see out their projects successfully. 

Work as a team to acheive the best results

Sometimes in the process of setting up a tenancy in these retail spaces, it is difficult to find the ‘right fit’ in selecting a suitable commercial builder to undertake your project. Some builders may lack the skills/ knowledge or experience to understand the technical requirements in commercial properties let alone the shopping centre and management requirements to carry out such work in spaces that they are responsible for and manage. Retail Outfit has a long history working within these large shopping centre management companies and has solid working relationships with a variety of tenancy delivery managers, this allows us to ensure both client and management are satisfied before, during and after our projects are delivered as we aim to work as a strong team with all stakeholders to achieve the best results.

We are committed to meet your deadline

As we move to handing over a tenancy we ensure all the finer details have been attended to, to ensure our client has a smooth opening and can focus on training staff, setting up their points of sale, moving in stock and readying their stores for business. As small business owners ourselves we understand the need for efficiency and the importance of timing. We are committed to really pushing to meet our deadlines so that our customers open on time. Helping our clients to achieve their goals soon becomes a personal investment as we regularly enjoy seeing our customers opening successes on social media as after working with them closely, we come to understand the hard work and dedication it has taken them to get to that point and seeing the pride in their updates and social media stories is the most rewarding part.