Construction & Civil Engineering Magazine Issue 217 - Sept 2024 | Page 183

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Sam Wernick at Trade Show in 1940s working as a poultry dealer , transporting
▼ Poultry by road 1930s
chickens from farms to butchers inside homemade timber crates . One day , an interested farmer asked him where the crates came from , and Sam revealed that he had built them himself . The farmer then requested him to make and sell him a few crates , marking the start of a new venture for Sam . Quickly , Sam realised that he was making more money from selling the crates than from dealing chickens . As a result , he focused exclusively on manufacturing timber products , more specifically timber buildings , thus marking the genesis of Wernick .
Wernick Group
During the 1940s to the 1960s , the company experienced uninterrupted growth by

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