The Bundaberg Distilling Company makes Bundaberg Rum, also referred to as Bundy, in Bundaberg East, Queensland, Australia. The Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame honored the Bundaberg Distilling Company in 2010.

Bundaberg Rum began in light of the fact that the neighborhood sugar plants disapproved of how to manage the waste molasses after the sugar was separated. Molasses was weighty and challenging to move, and the expenses of changing it over completely to stock feed were seldom worth the work. Sugar men initially started to consider the benefits that could produce using refine. The key gathering was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885. W. M. C. Hickson filled in as the executive, and different notables in participation incorporated all the large sugar plant proprietors of that time: W. G. Farquhar, F. L. Nott, T. Austin, J. Hurricane, S. McDougall, T. Penny, S. H. Bravo and A. H. Youthful. All turned into the main overseers of the organization, what began with a capital of £5,000.

The Bundaberg Distilling Company started its tasks in 1888, and Bundaberg rum was first delivered in 1889. Creation stopped 1907 to 1914, and from 1936 to 1939, after flames, the second made rum from the production line spill into the close by Burnett River.

Christsen Pty Ltd worked their own Bundaberg Rum packaging plant in Bourbong Street, Bundaberg, at the back of their enormous basic food item and equipment business in the focal point of town. The soul was sold at UP and OP strength from their business. A representative for the first family, Rod Patch, reviewed that the state of the current “Bundy Bottle” began from jugs of Bushells Coffee and Chicory Essence. Bundaberg inhabitants would offer them to his granddad for one penny a jug, after which they were washed and loaded up with the spirit.

The shape continues as before yet the limit has been expanded to the current 700ml. Fix’s extraordinary granddad, Hans Truval Christsen, a Danish migrant from Copenhagen, and his child Frederick Christsen, had a strategy of utilizing staff of The Salvation Army confidence in the rum packaging process, since they were less inclined to be enticed to test the spirit.[citation needed] The Christsen family upheld settlement cultivating families through difficult situations, which was recognized with the naming of Christsen Park at Bargara Beach.

In 1961, the organization presented the polar bear as its strange decision of mascot, to suggest that the rum could avoid the coldest chill.

A 375mL jar of Bundaberg Original with Cola

In 2000, the Bundaberg Rum organization and the refinery were offered to British organization Diageo. In 2014, a choice by Diageo to move the packaging tasks of Bundaberg Rum toward the western Sydney suburb of Huntingwood brought about employment misfortunes in the city that bears the name of the beverage.

The choice drew analysis from different degrees of Queensland governmental issues. The Premier, Campbell Newman, said it was a frustrating move, especially for a locale that had experienced decimating floods in late years. Bundaberg chairman, Mal Forman, said, “I’m disheartened by the declaration, yet I had been guaranteed the organization had a pledge to the city … I comprehended interest for packaged Bundaberg Rum had declined as additional individuals purchased pre-blended jars, a pattern I needed no piece of.”

A Diageo representative later explained the circumstance, saying a few premium items, like the Master Distillers Collection, would keep on being packaged in Bundaberg. “This was not a choice we have messed with, but guaranteeing the more drawn-out term manageability of the distillery is a fundamental one. We remain totally dedicated to Bundaberg and the refinery and will proceed to contribute and zero in on our center business of refining, developing and mixing extraordinary quality rum in Bundaberg as we have accomplished throughout the previous 125 years.”