Tontine Group what is a commodity market," she said. "In other countries there is no market leader because manufacturers tended to stay in their local areas." As the company is well known, it is referenced in jokes. For example, an Australian legal newsletter said of an alleged swindler who padded his timesheets "that at one stage pillow makers Tontine were said to be interested in sponsoring him." Duvets in Australia are known by the genericized trademark "Doona"; the brand name is owned by the Tontine Group. The brand name was acquired by Tontine in 1991 when Pacific Dunlop took over the Northern
Biosis Pty Ltd Institute of Landscape Architects Land Management Award for its development of the Aurora Conservation Reserve Management Plan, and was a collaborative partner in Australian Research Council funded research on threatened bird species in 2009. Biosis Pty Ltd Biosis Pty Ltd is an environmental consultancy firm in Australia. The company provides ecological, heritage, environmental planning and GIS services for business, government and community organisations. It works from several offices in south-eastern Australia, with its head office in Melbourne. Biosis Pty Ltd was founded in 1983 as Biosis Research Pty Ltd by ecologist Charles Meredith and several colleagues from an earlier venture