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WELCOME TO WONDERWORLD AQUARIUM & PETCENTRE
Welcome to Wonderworld Aquarium & Pet Centre Ltd. Thank you for visiting our website. We began our business in 1985 as an aquarium situated in Kuirau Park, Rotorua under the ownership of Harold & Jo Drummond. At that time our business was called Wonderworld Aquarium. We leased the building from the Rotorua District Council and subject to that lease we were required to set aside a portion of our business for tourism. So there we were for the next 11 years a Public Aquarium with large display tanks of different species of Tropical freshwater fish, tropical marines, fancy coldwater fish , seahorses ,turtles, crayfish, snapper etc and a retail section with every variety of aquarium fish we could get from our suppliers. This type of public Aquarium / Retail facility was unique as it was the only one of its kind in N.Z at that time and as an added bonus we were able to take advantage of the thermal heating already in the building to keep most of the tanks at the required heat and save on electricity. Our retail section was up and going and always busy and we thoroughly enjoyed this part of our business as we got to chat with the customers and made many friends over the years. In 1996 we sought a change in direction, away from tourism. So we moved premises to 19 Fairysprings Road, Rotorua. With the addition of pets to our business it was a wonderful challenge and we absolutely adored this side of the business as much as we do the aquarium side. We renamed our business Wonderworld Aquarium & Pet Centre. In 2001 we moved premises again to 82 Clayton Road, Rotorua. Then in 2004 eighteen years after starting this business Harold and Jo Drummond sold their business to their son Ardie Drummond whom they had employed all those 18 years ago. He had visions of how and what he wanted to do and changes happened immediately after he took over the business. Today the business has expanded with another building added to house our forever growing aquarium section making ours one of the largest in N.Z.
Ardie Drummond
Since taking over Wonderworld Aquarium & Pet Centre from his parents in April 2004 he has made major changes. Starting with the opening of our new aquarium building, Labour weekend 2005. Moving all the fish, and aquarium products over to the new building and keeping the old building for the pets and pet products. Oh so much more room! The next major development was the installation of our quarantine room in 2007 enabling us to import our own tropical marine stock. We can import good numbers and regularly, supplying both north and south Island. Ardie has made several other changes within the shop, all of which have proved beneficial to both customers and staff and no doubt there will be more changes to come. Mean while Ardie loves to spend time with you, the customer, making sure all your needs are met and making sure you have all the best advice.
Judy Drummond
Ardie’s wife. Judy hails from our accounts department. Focusing strongly on fulfilling our financial obligations, and making this her top priority. Judy sold her own business, a boarding cattery, at the end of 2006 and since then has split her time between her office and working in the shop. Doing whatever needs doing from pricing and computer work, to customer service and sales.
Harold Drummond
With him comes a whole heap of knowledge and experience from years back. In 1985 with $10,000.00 in his pocket, he bought his timber, nails, hammer etc and began to shape his aquarium. We opened our doors 2 months later. When we moved premises in 1996, once again he got his hammer out and again when we moved to Clayton Road, once more when Ardie expanded his business. Now Harold manages our marine quarantine room. He orders our marines and takes care of each shipment. He plays an important part in advising customers, not only about the marines, but also the tanks and the equipment that goes with them. He also takes care of any maintenance work that needs to be done.
Jo Drummond
Jo is the person you are most likely to be communicating with when you email or phone through your marine order. There is a continuous flow of contacts from marine customers from all over NZ with orders and enquiries, most of which Jo handles with efficiency. Jo also has good knowledge of both the aquarium and pet side of the business and works behind the counter in the shop serving and advising our customers
Winnie Williams
Winnie is our stock person and also our cleaner. She prices our stock, stocks our shelves, packages goods and helps with the animals and any cleaning that needs to be done. When our sales team are busy, she helps with the customers as well. She’s a good back up person to have on our team.
Shannyn Scoles
Shannyn is our youngest staff member. She started with us in 2008. She really loves animals and her duties are to keep the animals and birds living areas clean and to make sure they have fresh food and water. That’s pretty ongoing at times. She also helps with other cleaning and packing duties.
Chris (Gnome) Williams
You guessed it. Winnie’s other half. Chris joined our team at the beginning of 2009 and is working in our Aquarium Department. He has good knowledge of this side of the business and is very popular with all of our aquatic customers.
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