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Here are some fast facts about the business, pictures of our founders – Dave and Roby, and our historical press releases. Please let us know if you need anything else.
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hipages Group Fast Facts:

  • hipages group has a team of 140 passionate people
  • Australian owned
  • Founded in 2004
  • Rebranded from Viteknologies in 2012
Roby Sharon-Zipser

David Vitek

CEO, Cofounder
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Roby Sharon-Zipser

Roby Sharon-Zipser

COO, Cofounder
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hipages.com.au is an on-demand home services marketplace for getting work done around your home.

hipages.com.au Fast Facts:

  • hipages.com.au gets over 1 million visitors a month
  • 1,100,000+ members and growing at 45,000 new members a month
  • 66,000+ tradespeople in our network
  • A job is posted on hipages.com.au every 37 seconds

Home Improvement Industry Fast Facts:

  • Australia’s home improvement industry is a $140 billion industry
  • 280,000 trade service providers in Australia
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Licensedtrades.com.au is Australia’s only comprehensive licence checking site. You can check all major licensing bodies to ensure that the trade professional you hire has the appropriate licence for your job.

Licensed Trades Fast Facts:

  • Monitors over 1 million licenses
  • 47 Australian licensing bodies
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Connecting a community of health conscious people with over 13,000 natural therapy practitioners in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
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A community of pet owners featuring over 1,700 pet industry related service providers consisting of local animal breeders, boarders, groomers, pet trainers, care services, pet shops and online pet retailers.

Natural Therapy Pages & Pet Pages Fast Facts:

  • Natural Therapy Pages & Petpages gets over 600,000 monthly visitors
  • Natural Therapy Pages & Petpages has 15,000 advertisers

Latest Press Releases

Strong Investor appetite for hipages

1st June, 2015

Additional $6 million raised to further increase leadership position in On-Demand Home Services Marketplace in Australia.

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Budget is a win-win for tradies and homeowners

14th May, 2015

David Vitek, CEO of Australia’s largest on-demand home services marketplace hipages.com.au, welcomes the focus of the budget on small businesses, and believes tradies and homeowners will benefit.

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hipages.com.au nails record $1.35 billion in on-demand home services

28th April, 2015

Australia’s largest on-demand home services marketplace hipages.com.au has announced a significant milestone of $1.35 billion in job value posted through the hipages platform over the last 12 months.

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Hipages.com.au study highlights how Australia’s home improvement drives 50 million jobs per year

24th November, 2014

A recent study conducted by hipages Group has revealed the significant size of the Australian home improvement market, seeing 84% of Australians using home improvement services in the last 12 months and resulting in 50 million jobs for tradespeople in the past year.

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Tradie finding platform hipages.com.au attracts branding expert to CMO role

4th June, 2014

hipages Group has appointed Fraser Taylor as its new Chief Marketing Officer. A highly experienced marketer, Taylor brings over 20 years brand and commercial experience from the FMCG sector and is tasked with accelerating the growth of hipages Group and making hipages.com.au the destination service for Australians wanting to connect with tradespeople in their local area.

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hipages.com.au secures $6M investment as the dominant platform for finding tradies

8th May, 2014

Australia’s largest platform for finding tradies, hipages.com.au, has secured new investment of $6 million from some of the leading names in Australian business, with blue chip institutional investors taking the majority of the book.

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hipages.com.au and IKEA make kitchen installation easy and stress free

8th October, 2013

Leading online technology company hipages.com.au announces that it has partnered with global brand IKEA in Australia to provide a value-add service that will help IKEA-owned store customers’ purchase and install kitchens with greater ease and speed.

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