In 1977, he sold the business and moved to Augusta in Western Australia, where Tom O’Toole made his mark as a leading country baker.
In 1984 Tom O’Toole returned to Beechworth, Victoria, and purchased the badly run-down bakery again, this time including an attached building for expansion, and has been in business ever since.
There are now seven more bakeries located across Victoria and New South Wales, Australia in the towns of - Echuca, Albury, Healesville, Bendigo, Ballarat, Yackandandah and Bright.
Born in the small rural town of Tocumwal, NSW, Australia in 1952, to an Irish father and an Australian mother (mum), Tom O’Toole was one of five siblings (four boys and one girl).
While his father worked full-time at providing for the family and his mother took care of the kids and the house, economic times limited the extent of their lifestyle.