Company History

Thomanure™ was begun in 1994. Its founder started selling sheep manure then aged 14, in order to raise funds for a music tour to Tonga; thanks to his grandfather's suggestion.

After the tour, business lay low for a couple of years, until 1996. The founder had just been part of a Young Enterprise company at school, which had not done so well, selling Childrens' party kits. With this lose to inspire him, he decided to resume selling sheep manure due to its strong demand.

From 1996 through to the end of 1999, Thomanure enjoyed a steady amount of sales (for a hobby enterprise). Unfortunately it came to an end when the founder's family sold their farm and moved to town.

At the end of 2000, and beginning of 2001 the founder was just completing his Bachelor of Business at the Waikato Institute of Technology. To finish he did a paper on E-Marketing, which required the design of a website. The founder decided that this business would be an ideal basis for that.

In October 2005, the founder, after creating a weblog for a diary of his pending travel to Japan, decided it would be a good idea to resurrect the "demonstration" website for fun.