It’s a long way from 1969 when Ferdie Dominelli first took over an ailing Ford dealership in Hurstville in September of that year, to re-build it into one of the leading dealerships in the Ford stable. The on-going success of this dealership has been the spring board to the overall growth of the Dominelli Group of Companies.

Throughout his thirty seven years of success in the business world, Ferdie Dominelli has never forgotten his roots. As a boy, he assisted in his father’s Liverpool market garden before and after school up until his mid-teens. Ferdie learned a solid work ethic early in life which has stayed with him since.

Because of these humble beginnings, he has always been compassionate towards those less fortunate than himself. Ferdie has been instrumental, over a long period of time, in helping to raise many millions of dollars for a huge variety of worthy causes. he is a recipient of Rotary’s coveted Paul Harris Fellowship for his outstanding achievements in fund raising for charity, and his commitment to the community.

In may 2004, his business and community achievements were acknowledged by his parents’ home country, Italy, when the Italian Republic bestowed on him the title of “Cavaliere”, the equivalent of a British Knighthood.

Ferdie Dominelli is a man of many and varied successes and with his son Adam, is looking to many more in the future with their on-going vision for the Dominelli Group and the community in general.

A “sense of style” has always been employed throughout the Dominelli motor dealerships from staff dress codes to showroom, vehicle presentation and service workshops. This was highlighted by the introduction of “The Ferdie Bird”, our company mascot in 1974 to further emphasise the “Fussy Ferdie” approach to business and create a point-of-difference to other motor dealerships.

But it doesn’t stop there! The Dominelli “sense of style” is also employed in the many other Group business interests – high-rise property development like Forest Ridge Apartments and the planned Georgia luxury apartment complex, both in Hurstville, and their latest motor vehicle acquisition, Rockdale Mazda.

The same “sense of style” can be observed in the design and construction of “Cook”, a 26 unit Commercial Industrial complex in Taren Point, the latest in a schedule of Dominelli Group building projects.

The Dominelli vision projects well into the future with a variety of motor vehicle and property development plans already on the drawing board.