Red Rich Fruits begins supplying Safeway (now Woolworths).

Controlled atmosphere storage facilities are installed at the Wandin site replacing the cork- clad cool rooms built in 1962.

Mick marries Grace Mammoliti. Their daughter, Josephina ‘Josie’, is born the following year followed by sons, Joseph ‘Joe’, in 1961 and, Michael (jnr), in 1972.

Red Rich Fruits is incorporated.

Michael ‘Mick’ Napoleone purchases the family’s first property in the Yarra Valley. Apples are quickly planted, followed by Stonefruit (1955) and Pears (1960).