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When Jim and Hazel Marks started up their small unassuming grocery
shop in Mansfield in 1953 they could never have imagined that
over the next 50 years the business would be linked so integrally
to the local community. Marks had a staff of three people back
then and used to close for lunch! Now there are more than 140
staff and the majority are local with direct connections to various
community groups.
Community is the big focus of this supermarket, staff are an important
key and they make it a good place to work. This of course rubs
off on the customers who use this 'hub' to get connected and find
out what's going on.
The strength of the business is in the family connectivity with
the community and now the Marks' cousins, Greg and Steve with
their wives, Trish and Mary manage the business with the same
ideals as the orginal owners.
Marks supermarket supports many local groups and events and believe
the High Country Festival is the most significant event in Mansfield.
Strong supporters of the local race club they are passionate about
keeping race meetings alive in Mansfield. "If the races stay
in Mansfield then all those horse skills are being kept alive.
That's important to a town like Mansfield where horses are the
cornerstone of what the community believe's important". "Each
race meeting creates an event where everyone in the town comes
out to meet up with each other. It's a town picnic, it's real
and authentic to our lifestyle. We support the Race Club so the
community can have it's 'day out'" The Race Meeting on Melbourne
Cup day attracts over 5000 people and is an amazing event. This
year Horse Couture is part of the race meeting. Horses in Wearable
Art, it's new, fresh and edgy. Just what our Mansfield crowd love!
 FOOTY
BALED UP:
The Mansfield Junior Footy Club can expect to benefit from approx
$2000 of financial assistance, thanks to a new initiative by Marks
IGA Supermarket.
All the money received from recycling bales of cardboard boxes
used at the supermarket, worth about $2 per bale, will be handed
onto the junior football club.
"It's a great opportunity," junior club president,
Greg Hogarth, said. "It's very generous of them, and we're
rapt to be the recipients." The money will go towards the
purchase of general club items such as drink bottles, footballs
and new jumpers.
Marks IGA Supermarket will donate all money they receive for recycling
boxes to the Mansfield Junior Football Club. Pictured are Stephen
Marks and Greg Hogarth, with George Huxtable, Nathan Purcell,
Liam Edwards, Jack Scott, Jamie Carns and Timothy O'Brien.
Story and photo courtesy of the Mansfield Courier
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