Our Key People

Michael Simpson and Peter Schelfhout have worked together since they both began their apprenticeships at the same kitchen company as 16-year-olds. They forged a friendship that has lasted more than two decades.

Born entrepreneurs, they struck out on their own in 1992 under the business name of Perennial Kitchens. Two years later, they incorporated the business as a company and the rest, as they say, is history.

A few years later they bought the business of their original employer when he retired, including the factory the business occupied in Michellan Court, Bayswater. In June 2007 the company moved to its much larger factory in order to cope with their current rate of expansion into the foreseeable future. In late 2009, their visionary new creative division, The Kitchen Design Centre, will open in Bridge Street, Eltham.

Michael and Peter attribute their success to their long-standing vision of becoming the best kitchen company in Australia, a hands-on, collaborative, lead-by-example management style, and a tireless commitment to streamlining and systematising all production processes and technologies to guarantee the most stringent professional standards and the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction in the industry.

If "the proof of the pudding is in the eating", their pre-eminent position as the manufacturer-of-choice of so many Melbourne architects and kitchen design professionals, is powerful evidence that they're achieving their far-reaching vision.