JIMMY POSSUM is the brainchild of husband and wife team Margot and Alan Spalding, who are owners and Directors of this respected company.  JIMMY POSSUM is the brand which has long been synonymous with quality furniture and sofas whose engaging designs, distinct ‘look’ and imposing appearance make a statement not only about the company but also about the discerning customers who daily swell the ranks of the army of JIMMY POSSUM devotees!  

More than that, JIMMY POSSUM is a company with social conscience.  Like every sensible organisation it is, of course, concerned about global warming, and has long had an eco-friendly, ‘green’ policy in place at its factory (‘Possum Central’) in Bendigo.  What has been initiated is conscious, deliberate and sensible practice put into action every day.  It is also just one aspect of JIMMY POSSUM’s bigger picture efforts for the universal good - for the wider community. 

Because JIMMY POSSUM has both a big picture focus, along with a very well tuned smaller picture focus, its philanthropic efforts similarly are both wide and more local, with a well proportioned balance.  In the fairly recent past, for example, its wider community focus included sponsoring a building project in Samoa) where JIMMY POSSUM staff worked (for almost three weeks) on a school, and made desks for the students there.  Another example relates to its policy on imported items where it only considers using those companies/producers whose workers are paid a fair and equitable wage.  In this instance also the production environment is scrutinised.  It’s not always easy to achieve these very important standards and equally important twin criteria with overseas production companies, but only those companies which achieve both are considered as décor suppliers for the JIMMY POSSUM stores.  Why?  Because PRIDE is one of the JIMMY POSSUM values, and JIMMY POSSUM will only ever stock and sell those items in which it can be truly proud.  And PRIDE is just one of the ten significant business and personal values which underpin the way the company operates and does business. 

JIMMY POSSUM is a regional company, and Alan and Margot are ‘Bendignonians’ through and through.  They both admit to “eating, sleeping and breathing JIMMY POSSUM”.  In like measure they have complete dedication to the region from which they draw their very talented local Production and Retail teams – the very special Production and Retail Possums – and to a city which now boasts the very first regional JIMMY POSSUM store (and which is ‘home’).  When it comes to the local community JIMMY POSSUM also has a strong belief in supporting the community which has long supported it.  And Margot and Alan, and their family of seven (now grown up) children (five of whom work in the business)  are recognised as being significant and generous supporters of needy causes in Bendigo and in each store location.