About Us

Established in the 90’s from Humble beginnings in a single factory unit in Western Sydney, Paul and Linda began a new business supplying the truck and earthmoving industry with filters.

Paul’s years of experience being able to identify and match filters from many different sources and his determination to succeed gave him a solid base to excel. With limited funds, a young family and two staff to employ he had to make it work.

Recognising the needs of businesses and customers needing more diversity, rather than just filters meant Mr Filter needed to not only be diverse, but ask the question, “why let the customer walk out the store empty handed”?. This just didn’t sit well with Paul. Firstly, introducing new store products, such as, drums of oils, then greases, consumables, tooling, exhaust hardware, workshop equipment, home handy man equipment, electronics and electrical, and the list just went on and on.
The single unit was soon outgrown and a second unit was rented which became the showroom, now customers had more product ranges to choose from than ever before.

By 2003 Mr Filter was employing a team of eight staff with an impressive fleet of delivery vehicles. Mr Filter, quickly establishing itself as a market leader in Sydney, surprising the traditional supply companies that had been around a while and were well established, but they soon realised that serious competition is in town and not just on the price, but this company had something different to offer, more than any other supply company had before. Gratitude!!! One of Paul’s rules of business, “never take your customers for granted” !!!

Paul also believed that if you build it, they will come, and come they did. Now Mr Filter is bulk oil ready, delivering and pumping out of Mr Filter delivery trucks, bulk oils and lubricants in workshops all over Sydney. The shop is looking amazing, the customers are loving the vibe, the energy and Paul has job advert’s running looking for additional staff to cope with the influx.

In Early 2004 it was becoming more obvious Mr Filter was bursting at the seams in these two units and larger premises were needed. After several months a location was found and Mr Filter was on the move to its current location 114 Toongabbie Rd, Toongabbie. Our New HQ.

Now 5 times larger than the original two warehouses and with a 25-metre-long sales counter, and a multi storey structured with mezzanine levels, Mr Filter is the talk of the town and rightly so. It’s hard not to notice the rapid growth and our new warehouse now equipped to cater for continuing growth and ease of workability.

This has enabled for a more productive and efficient business, not to mention a pleasure for all the Mr Filter team to work within. Mr Filter once again reformed itself into a supermarket for all customers who need to service trucks, cars, earthmoving machinery, underground mining equipment and we are now a major and important supply house for everything that supports construction, hence creating our first “SUPERSTORE”.

Now employing a team of less than 100 staff, and a huge fleet of delivery vehicles which is continually growing, we are small enough to still care about what is most important to us. “Our Customers and Our Staff”.

Through innovation and continual forward planning Mr Filter is perceived by many as “The” market leader in the competitive greater Sydney area.

Now, it is clear why, many of the Mr Filter’s loyal customers support the company in which they have come to love.

Our customers are also now expanding and have other offices and outlets interstate that want a Mr Filter Sydney store just like the Sydney store in other parts of Australia. At this time Southeast Queensland was the most requested location to open a second store, so in January 2007, Paul went in search for premises for Mr Filter’s next Superstore. Now located in the fast-growing South Brisbane, Gold Coast corridor at Yatala in Southeast Queensland.

Our Brisbane store is currently managed by a fantastic team of people who are a credit to the company and its roots. Employing local people in the area supporting local jobs.

Like the desert, we are continually changing to make your experience shopping in our stores, exciting, fun and plentiful. Lots of variety, friendly helpful staff in a clean well organised store.

Anyway, that’s our story so far! So, whoever you are, whatever you do, whatever you need and no matter your location, our stores are aimed to please you, satisfy you as best we can, leaving you with a wonderful happy experience and supplying you the right product to get the job done.

UPDATE 2025

We thought perhaps to update the “About”.

So many changes and the landscape has changed in terms of evolution. We are now 28 years strong, employing many more people than we have ever had before. Our staff, our people are much more than just staff and or our people who work in the store! They are our family, our extended Mr Filter family and with some of our staff clicking over 20 years with the company, we guess the proof is most definitely in the pudding.

We are just about to embark on building our “Brand New” and improved Mr Filter Headquarters (HQ), a Super Mega state of the art, modern spare parts and shopping experience store in Toongabbie, with an up market in house Café, come Restaurant, so please stay tuned for that. It will be a store like no other and we aim to set the bar quite high in terms of one of the best if not “the most awesome” spare part store in Australia.

Our new Brisbane store has moved to a new location. Relocated on the edge of the M1 freeway in Yatala and most visible on both North and South directions of the M1. Also, the latest re-vamped, modern store enjoying a temperature controlled, hosting still the old, but also many new stock lines, shelves stock to the rafters and a café also on site if you wish to indulge in a hot chocolate, fresh coffee or a steak sandwich or perhaps a milk shake when you come to the store.

The Future

We have plans to open many more stores, but in the meantime, please enjoy our current stores and operations, including our on-line store packed with thousands of items to purchase on-line and we ship all over Australia.

They say the children are our future and how true that can be. Our son Zac has been immersed in the family business since he was able to walk.

For many years Zac had worked in the store and or in the warehouse every Saturday and on his school holidays to earn some pocket money, but also to watch and learn from his dad the importance of hard work and the value of money.

Starting from the ground up and earning not only respect from the staff, but also the customers. Zac is very well admired, respect and liked, because of his positive and caring mindset and his amazing work ethic, grounded attitude and new ideas. Zac is not only our son, but an integral and important part of the business operations and the future of the company.

We currently employ less than 100 people, and still maintain our own large fleet of delivery vehicles which is continually growing.

We are small enough to still care about what is most important to us. “Our Customers and Our People”. Without them both, there is no more Mr Filter. Strength, support and stability in the triangle. Mr Filter – Our People – Our Customers

That’s it for now!!!!

We hope to see you soon in store.

Thank you once again for supporting our business and our family. We appreciate it very much.

Paul, Linda and Zac R.