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Robins Kitchen is an Australian retailer of cookware and kitchenware based in Brisbane, Queensland with a turnover of approximately $41 million (2011/12). Established in November 1976 by Allan Musgrave and Robin Brace with one store in the Brisbane CBD, the business grew steadily throughout the 80's and 90's. Robins Kitchen is now the largest privately owned kitchenware chain in Australia with 56 stores down the eastern seaboard of Australia from Cairns in North Queensland to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. The business was founded on a platform to sell premium kitchenware to keen home cooks via a sales team that were also cooking enthusiasts and this core vision has been maintained over the past 25 years. Unlike many boutique reatilers, Robins Kitchen stores are located in many smaller regional centres and there is a Robins Kitchen store in almost every major town in Queensland with a population of greater than 15,000 including Gympie and Dalby. Although some of these stores a revenue neutral they are considered to cement the strong parochial ties the business has with Queenslanders. In 2003 poor health forced founder Allan Musgrave to sell the business to Gold Coast property developer and lawyer, Warwick Parer. Parer is the son of ex Liberal Party Federal Senator, Warwick Parer Snr and the brother-in-law of Allan Musgave's daughter, thereby keeping a family connection to the business since it first traded. Wawrick Parer Jnr's brother, Justin Parer is responsible for the day-to-day running of the business via his consultancy, Pi Strategic Management also based in Morningside, Brisbane.