Hannes formed Hanimex (an abbreviation of "HANnes" "IMport" "EXport") in 1947.

Hanimex was the sole distributor of Fujifilm products in Australia from 1954 until Fujifilm themselves purchased the company in 2004.

Growth

In the mid-1950s, Australian import restrictions led Hanimex to begin manufacturing projectors there locally, and by the early 1970s it was the second-largest manufacturer of slide projectors in the world.

Hanimex distributed cameras from a large number of manufacturers

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