A shopfitter builds a shop, cafe, kiosk or clinic from the designer's drawings, and many also make the counters, display units and back-of-house joinery in their own factory. That factory is often the real difference between them: it decides finish quality, lead times and how easily a store can be repeated.
This directory lists 14 shopfitters based in Melbourne, grouped by the kind of job they show most often.
How this list was made: FORJ wrote it, and FORJ designs shops and venues but does not build them, so FORJ is not on it. Shopfitters are grouped by the work they show, alphabetical within each group, with no ranking and no paid entries. Details come from each business's own website in October 2026. One disclosure: Sam Fossati, who leads FORJ's interior design, was Design Manager at Canopy Fitouts until early 2025. Its entry is marked ‡.
If your store is in a shopping centre
Centre landlords approve the design and the shopfitter, and both take time. Vicinity's fitout guidelines set out the sequence: concept design review, preliminary drawings, lease approval, a review of any works to the centre's services, final design approval, then shopfitter appointment, authority approvals and handover of the site.
Region Group's design and fitout guide adds that only "qualified, experienced commercial shopfitters or contractors are permitted", that the landlord "has the right to refuse a shopfitter", and that every worker must be inducted to the site. Centre guidelines often restrict noisy work to outside trading hours; QIC's guidelines for one of its centres require exactly that.
Two things follow. Ask each shopfitter which centres they have worked in recently, and allow for the approval steps in your opening date rather than squeezing the build.
Questions worth asking a shopfitter
- Is the joinery made in your own factory? Where, and what is the current lead time?
- Which centres or landlords have you built in recently?
- Who coordinates the centre's approvals, inductions and hoarding?
- What does your price exclude: signage, equipment, services upgrades, after-hours work?
- If this format works, could you repeat it in another site?
National and rollout scale
Greater Group
Canterbury office, with its own joinery plant in Tullamarine. Retail and hospitality across Asia-Pacific, including Optus and Pandora rollouts and work for JB Hi-Fi. Says its history goes back to 1989.
Good fit for: a brand opening many stores, here or overseas.
RAMVEK
Lynbrook. Australian-made joinery from what it describes as a 5,000 square metre Melbourne facility. Luxury, beauty, department store and hospitality work for brands including Nespresso and Malabar Gold & Diamonds. Says it started in 1988.
Good fit for: high-finish beauty, jewellery or concession joinery.
Storebuild Australia
Ringwood. Retail, pharmacy, beauty, hospitality and gym fitouts "from small boutique stores to large national store roll-outs", including Miu Miu, Dymocks and TDE at Chadstone. States it is a long-standing member of the Interior Fitout Association.
Good fit for: a specialty chain that also wants ongoing maintenance.
Storepro
Cheltenham. Says it has worked only in retail construction since 2003, with an in-house joinery team in Melbourne. Lists rollouts for R.M. Williams and Levi's, and work for TK Maxx.
Good fit for: national retail rollouts, refits and defits.
Mid-size, with their own factory
AAFS Shopfitting
Officer South. Joinery made in its own Melbourne factory. Fashion, footwear, salon, optometry and hospitality work, including Petbarn Pakenham, Platypus Frankston and Franck Provost at Emporium.
Good fit for: a specialty retailer in a south-east centre.
Associated Projects
Dandenong South. Says it began in 1953, and runs its own fabrication facility, plus a fixtures division. Case studies include Tarocash, Johnny Bigg, adidas and Coffee Hit.
Good fit for: an apparel or cafe chain that wants its fixtures made in-house.
Crown Shopfitters
Clayton. Says it has operated since 1992, with joinery made at its Clayton headquarters. Restaurants, food outlets and retail.
Good fit for: a food outlet or restaurant fitout.
William Waters
Knoxfield. A family cabinet-making business since 1954 that now designs, builds and installs pharmacy and branded retail fitouts from its own factory.
Good fit for: a pharmacy.
Single stores, cafes, kiosks and clinics
Canopy Fitouts ‡
St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Designs and builds shops, cafes, bars, salons and clinics. Its retail work includes Blackhearts & Sparrows stores in Elwood, Newtown (Geelong) and Thornbury, and the Cocolocks salon in Oakleigh.
Good fit for: a single store, salon or venue where you want design and construction from one business.
‡ Sam Fossati was Design Manager at Canopy until early 2025 and designed the Elwood and Newtown stores there.
Daekin Group
Bayswater factory. Cafes, food kiosks and small retail, including Walkers Doughnuts kiosks at Broadmeadows and Karingal and Golden Pretzel at Fountain Gate.
Good fit for: a food kiosk or cafe in a centre.
Juma Projects
Dandenong. A family-owned business working on pharmacy, medical, dental, vet and cafe fitouts, with an in-house design team.
Good fit for: a pharmacy or clinic.
MEA Shopfitting
Williams Landing. Cafes, gelato bars, beauty and kiosk tenancies, including Dolce Bella Gelato and Beauty Touch at Coburg Hill.
Good fit for: a small food or beauty tenancy in the west.
Nationwide Shopfitting Australia
Laverton North. Retail, cafe, laundromat and medical fitouts with in-house custom joinery.
Good fit for: a single-site operator in the west.
TopFit Projects
Melbourne. Hospitality and retail fitouts, including Rocca Madden at Westfield Fountain Gate and Rice n Roll at Northland, which its site says won a Silver at the 2023 Melbourne Design Awards.
Good fit for: a hospitality concept in a centre.
The industry body
The Interior Fitout Association represents shopfitters, office fitters and manufacturers nationally, has a Victorian division and runs the Interior Fitout Awards. Membership is not a licence; registration is checked through the Building and Plumbing Commission.
Where FORJ fits
FORJ designs the store: the customer path, display, counter, storage and staff areas, prepared to suit the centre's guidelines and documented for your shopfitter to price. See retail interior and shop fitout design.
Sources: each shopfitter's own website, checked October 2026; Vicinity Centres; Region Group; QIC; Interior Fitout Association; Building and Plumbing Commission.