Hard Yakka is an Australian clothing company. It was founded in 1935 in Brunswick, Victoria as D. K. Laidlaw & Sons Pty Ltd but later adopted the brand name Hard Yakka, Yakka being Australian slang for work.
The company is one of the largest suppliers of work wear in the southern hemisphere, providing a large range of products. Since its inception, the company has expanded its work wear ranges to include Foundations, Legends, Koolgear, Protect FR and 3056: Born in Brunswick. The company also supplies a range of accessories and safety footwear.
In 2007, Hard Yakka was acquired by Pacific Brands then, in 2014, it was acquired by Wesfarmers as part of its Workwear Group along with KingGee and Stubbies workwear.[1] Hard Yakka was the outfitter of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.[2]
^"Pacific Brands passes Hard Yakka to Wesfarmers after heavy loss". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 August 2014.
^"Hard Yakka is an Official Supporter of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". 2 February 2017.
HardYakka is an Australian clothing company. It was founded in 1935 in Brunswick, Victoria as D. K. Laidlaw & Sons Pty Ltd but later adopted the brand...
Look up yakka, hardyakka, or yacca in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yakka or yacka may refer to: Yacka, South Australia, a settlement in South Australia...
A Lot of HardYakka, subtitled "Triumph and torment: a county cricketer's life," is the first volume of autobiography by the cricketer-journalist Simon...
Protector, Safety Source, Total Fasteners, Packaging House, King Gee, HardYakka, Stubbies and GotStock. The division's 32 New Zealand stores are now all...
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leader in the workwear category by acquiring the Yakka group of companies (including the Yakka, HardYakka, Can't Tear 'Em, Stylecorp, NNT Uniforms, Wrangler...
of the Brisbane area. The Australian English word "yakka" (loosely meaning "work", as in "hardyakka") came from the Yuggera language (yaga, "strenuous...
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distance: "if he's within cooee, we'll spot him". Hardyakka means "hard work" and is derived from yakka, from the Jagera/Yagara language once spoken in...
Pearson; Jane Lennon (2010). Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures and HardYakka: A Historical Overview 1788–1967. CSIRO publishing. p. 104. ISBN 9780643096998...
glory". Richmond FC. Retrieved 5 November 2019. "Scoring Summary". 2019 HardYakka / Totally Workwear VFL. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019...
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Riccardi (Werribee). In 2019, the VFL announced new naming partners, with HardYakka and Totally Workwear joining as major sponsors. List of VFA/VFL premiers...
Geraldine (25 August 2003). "Men of steel who built the bridge with hardyakka". The Sydney Morning Herald. Russell, Meaghan; McFadyen, Kylie; HLA Envirosciences...
the uniforms were "very Gold Coast" and it was like an "active wear". HardYakka was the official supplier of the uniforms for the volunteers. During the...
in the 1860s and 1870s,” in Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures and HardYakka: A Historical Overview 1788-1967 ed Jane Lennon, (Collingwood: CSIRO publishing...
unofficial 'one day international'. Simon Hughes wrote of him in A Lot of HardYakka: "Wilf Slack, a reserved Windward Islander who never betrayed any nerves...
turned out, he wasn't to play again that summer." Simon Hughes, A Lot of HardYakka, 1997 McFarline, Peter (22 June 1983). "Australian cricketers in disgrace"...
more recently, the emergence of influential digital media, such as the Pie Hard podcast. "Good Old Collingwood Forever" is the team song of the Collingwood...
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