Wooden sign, Wing Sang & Co

The wooden sign of Wing Sang & Co. was used to hang in the company’s head office on 58 Hay Street in Haymarket.

Wing Sang sign

Image Courtesy of: Gordon Mar

Gordon Ma who managed the company until it was sold in the 1980s, has kept it in his home after he sold the business. Wing Sang & Co was a fruit merchant and commission agent in Haymarket founded in 1890. Three generations of Gordon’s family had managed Wing Sang & Co (fruit merchants and commission agents) in Haymarket of Sydney from the early 20th century to the 1980s. In 1912, the company rented a three-storey warehouse building from the City Council, at 58 Hay Street (corner of Quay, Hay and Lackey Streets) as its head office. The Wing Sang office was downstairs while the top floors were turned into bedrooms for employees. Wing Sang occupied this building until 1975 when it relocated to the new growers market at Flemington, a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney. The building on the site of 58 Hay Street was demolished around 1980 for the construction of the Sydney Entertainment Centre. 

In 1984, Wing Sang Co. was sold to a group of Italian buyers due to the younger generation of the Mar family having no interest in continuing the fruit wholesale business.

Wing Sang, 58 Hay Street

Image Courtesy of: City of Sydney Archives