The 5th Decade 1. In September 2016 (our 40th Year) Connelly’s Office National was awarded Office National NSW & National Dealer of the YEAR, along with a Technology Innovation award. This was a big deal for us, as 1 of 150 stores, across metro, regional and rural Australia this was great recognition for us, and confirmation that we were doing the right things. Jannah was also a finalist in the Customer Servuice Team member of the year. 2016 Office National - Winner Me

The 4th Decade 1. By 2008 the team had changed a bit more with other locals joining the “family” these included Kerri Tierney (now Palmer), Luke Dabin and Nathan Hart. They were excellent contributors to our organisation. 2008 Team - Luke Dabin, Nathan Hart, Geoff Connelly, Steve Connelly, Kerri (Tierney) Palmer, Marilyn Schofield, Louise Brookes 2. In 2009 – Leader Computers – an Australian owned Computer and component distributor was engaged as an important tec

The 3rd Decade 1. By 1999 – Connellys as part of Office Network, combined with 2 other marketing groups covering Copiers & printers, Computers, and Office Supplies/Stationery joined forces to form “OFFICE NATIONAL” . This was and remains the largest independent business to business provider of office products and business technology in solutions in Australia. Our first Office National Logo We did a new branding launch about the National group we had joined but also remai

The 2nd Decade 1. In 1987 – Jenelle upgraded from paper based Bookkeeping to a computerised Accounting software to process customer and supplier accounts. She started out on a Portable Computer so she could take it home as well as work in the office. It was about the size of 10 House bricks and the same weight with a tiny Black and grey screen, with a 40Mb hard Disk and 5 ¼ inch floppy disk drive to install programs and make backups. (This was before we had the Interne

The first decade 1. Connelly’s Started out on the 9th February 1976 2. The first shop was a very small shop at 61 Lynch Street (circled in red) in the Royal Hotel complex (Now the Mill Tavern complex) directly across the lane from the Post Office (It is now Sureway). 3. Geoff & Jenelle Connelly started the business with just one other staff member Chris Leoflath. In fact, Geoff required an operation as they started and saw many Supplier reps in his hospita