In 1883 Jane Elizabeth Jenkins, the founder of Jenkins Group, left with her family from England. The voyage to New Zealand took 102 days. During the passage, the Jenkins met, and became friends with Mrs Sarah Parkinson, who, with her four sons, was also emigrating to join her husband. On arrival in Auckland and eager to establish a business, Jane started making paper bags. J.E. Jenkins was established with an old cylinder printing press installed in a shed. The business was able to print its own paper bags and offer printed stationery and envelopes. Original customers included banks, requiring extra strong bags for transporting currency. Jenkins supplied these, glued with special paste boiled up by Jane herself each morning. Growth, prosperity, and good fortune followed the company with further moves to larger premises and the acquisition of the business in 1935 by J.B. Parkinson, son of Mrs Sarah Parkinson from the voyage to New Zealand. Ownership remains in the same family today. The Company went on to diversify into paper packaging products and general printing. In the early 1960's Jenkins was one of the first manufacturers of self adhesive labels in New Zealand. Jenkins has also been at the international forefront of fresh produce labelling as agents for Sinclair International since 1983. Significant growth in the business through the mid-90's lead onto the formation of Australian subsidiary J-Tech Systems Pty Ltd in 1998. J-Tech Systems now operates as an Australian stand-alone company with head office and manufacturing facility located in Albury, NSW. Additional sales and service centres are located in Mildura, Shepparton, and Adelaide. To further enhance customer service, J-Tech Systems established technical support representation in all States via a network of subcontractors to provide a truly national support structure. To build on the company's labelling activities and to extend the range of products and services on offer to our established customer base, J-Tech Systems Pty Ltd. became the Australian representative for Sunkist Growers Inc. of the U.S.A. in 1997 and was appointed Australian distributor for Italian company Sorma Spa in 2001. Sunkist "Soft Touch" citrus packing machines are renowned as the bench-mark for orange packing equipment world-wide, while Sorma specialize in the manufacture of packing, weighing and produce handling equipment to the fresh produce industry. Today, J-Tech Systems Pty Ltd. provide the infrastructure to deliver and support a range of world-class horticulture automation solutions to Australian Producers and Packers.