Everyone's had the same argument with a garden hose. You pop the fitting on, walk over, turn the tap, and it takes one look at the water pressure and launches itself across the lawn. You jam it back on tighter. It waits, and the next time you lean in for a closer look, it lets go, right in your face.
In the late nineties, Tim Kierath decided he'd had enough of garden hose connectors that leaked, split, or blew apart under pressure. "I believed there had to be a better way," he says. That simple idea became Hoselink in 1997.
The first ten years were tougher than anyone expected. Tim still calls them the "go broke" years. "Every morning I'd wake up knowing we'd lost even more money than the day before," he says. But he never stopped believing in the product.
Sally and James Kierath grew up around the business before they ran it. As teenagers that meant reworking connectors at Sydney factories; later it meant the engineering, technology and finance roles that built Hoselink into the business it is today. Today Sally and James are joint Managing Directors, with James still hands-on in product development day to day.
For years, Tim and James talked about bringing manufacturing home to Australia. In 2019, over lunch, James pitched an Australian-designed, Australian-built retractable hose reel, drawing on 15 years of product feedback. "Not just the most innovative hose reel in Australia, but the world," he told Tim. "And it would be built right here."
On 17 September 2024, that hose reel, Evolve, launched.
Today, Hoselink is Australia's leading online gardening retailer, with more than 50 people at our Sydney headquarters and growing across the USA.
Same family. Same no-burst fitting. A lot more hoses.
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