AS school holidays come to an end, many parents and students are on the hunt for stationery needed for the school year.
Swan Hill-based supplier Bakker and Glen has been organising school-booklist orders and supplying local schools with the equipment and stationery they require.
Many varieties and multiple brands of stationery items and writing tools such as pens, notebooks, rulers, calculators and much more are in stock at the local supplier’s shelves.
“The folders, the pens, and all that kind of stuff, we have all year-round for them to top up as they need,” said Jock McCoy, who has been working at Bakker and Glen for 17 years.
From an individual student’s stationery needs to an entire school’s supply, the independent supplier has been busy ensuring school supplies are available this back-to-school season.
“January is usually pretty busy,” Bakker and Glen employee Jacinta Parsons said.
“Parents will drop their kids’ school list off and we fill it for them, and then they come back and pick it up”,
The rising demand and outpouring orders for school supplies is a welcome change of pace for the local supplier, who were still open for business when schools temporarily closed down for COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021.
“It was very difficult. We were quiet but still open,” Ms Parsons said.
Bakker and Glen remained open during lockdowns to service other essential businesses in town.
Two separate businesses, Glen’s Paper Supply and Bakker & Son’s Stationery Suppliers, merged in 2005, becoming the Bakker and Glen Swan Hill knows today.
For several years, Bakker and Glen has been providing a wide range of supplies to businesses and institutions in in Swan Hill and surrounding areas in the Mallee for several years.
The locally owned and operated supplier has dubbed itself “your one stop commercial supplier”, with shelves stocked high with packaging and storage supplies, cleaning supplies and chemicals, furniture for offices and catering supplies, as well as a wide range of stationery for schools and offices.
