Australian window furnishing manufacturer Taylor and Stirling marks 80 years in business in 2026. The company manufactures custom curtains, roller blinds, honeycomb blinds, plantation shutters, motorised blinds, outdoor blinds and awnings in Ballarat and Tasmania, with free measure and quote across regional Victoria and southern Tasmania.

Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 4th Jul 2026 — Taylor & Stirling, one of Australia’s longest-running window furnishing manufacturers, is marking 80 years of business in 2026. The family company has been measuring, making and fitting curtains and blinds for homes across regional Victoria since 1946, and today runs showrooms in Ballarat and Huonville, Tasmania, along with its own manufacturing workrooms in Ballarat and on Bruny Island.

Eighty years is a long time in any trade, and the company has watched window furnishings change from simple holland blinds and heavy drapes to motorised blinds that respond to the weather. What has not changed, according to the team, is the basic job: keeping heat in during a Ballarat winter, keeping glare out of a north-facing living room, and making sure the finished product actually fits the window it was measured for.

A Full Indoor Range, Made to Measure

Taylor & Stirling’s indoor range covers just about every window covering a home might need. Roller blinds remain the biggest seller, and the company makes them in every configuration customers ask for. Sunscreen blinds filter glare while keeping the view, blockout blinds darken bedrooms and home theatres completely, and dual roller systems combine both fabrics on a single bracket so a homeowner can switch between privacy and light through the day.

Honeycomb blinds, also known as cellular blinds, have become one of the fastest-growing parts of the business, particularly in colder areas. The pockets of air trapped inside the cell structure act as insulation across the glass, and the company reports that many Ballarat and Hobart customers now fit them specifically to cut heating bills rather than for looks alone.

The soft furnishing side of the business is where the company’s history shows. Custom curtains, sheers, swags and tails, roman blinds and matching pelmets are still cut and sewn in the company’s own workrooms rather than ordered from an overseas catalogue. Curtain tracks, including motorised curtain tracks for wide openings and hard-to-reach windows, are fitted by the company’s own installers. Full details of the indoor range are available on the Taylor & Stirling curtains and blinds page at https://www.taylorandstirling.com.au/home/indoor-curtains-blinds/ 

The range is rounded out by plantation shutters, venetian blinds in timber and aluminium, vertical blinds for sliding doors and large glass panels, panel glides, and bamboo and natural fibre weaves. Skylight blinds and coverings for raked or angled windows are also made to order, an area where off-the-shelf products rarely work.

Wide Windows Are No Longer a Problem

One area the company has invested in over recent years is wide-span blinds. Modern homes in the region are being built with larger openings, and standard blind hardware simply does not span them. Taylor & Stirling now manufactures extra-wide roller blinds and extra-wide honeycomb blinds as single units across openings that would previously have needed two or three blinds with light gaps between them. For very large spans, motorisation removes the strain of lifting heavy fabric by hand.

Motorisation Moves From Luxury to Standard

Motorised blinds were a niche product a decade ago. Today the company fits automation systems from Somfy, Alpha and Automate across most of its product range, from single roller blinds to whole-home installations linked to smart home platforms. Timers, sun sensors and phone control mean blinds can close against the afternoon sun or drop for privacy at dusk without anyone touching them. The company says motorisation requests now come as often from retirees who want to stop climbing behind furniture to reach cords as they do from smart home enthusiasts.

Outdoor Living, Built for Real Weather

The outdoor side of the business has grown steadily as households spend more on alfresco areas. Taylor & Stirling supplies and installs outdoor blinds, patio blinds and alfresco blinds in track-guided and motorised configurations, including Ziptrak-style side channel systems that lock fabric down against wind. Screeny outdoor blinds, a European-engineered zip screen system, are offered for openings where wind resistance and a clean finish matter most.

Awnings make up the other half of the outdoor range. Folding arm awnings extend shade over patios and decks without posts, while retractable awnings, fixed canopies and window awnings handle everything from shopfronts to west-facing bedroom windows. The company also installs louvred and retractable roof systems for customers who want a fully covered outdoor room. The complete outdoor collection can be viewed at https://www.taylorandstirling.com.au/outdoor-blinds-shutters-awnings/

Products in this range are chosen for the conditions the company’s customers actually live in. Ballarat’s frosts, the winds that come off the Southern Ocean into Tasmania’s Huon Valley, and bushfire-zone building requirements all shape what the company is willing to put its name on.

“People sometimes ask why we have lasted eighty years when so many competitors have come and gone,” a spokesperson for Taylor & Stirling said. “The honest answer is that we measure everything ourselves, we make most of it ourselves, and we are still here when something needs adjusting five years later. In this trade, the follow-up is the business.”

Free Measure and Quote Across Two States

Taylor & Stirling offers a free measure and quote service across its Victorian service area, which includes Ballarat, Buninyong, Daylesford, Creswick, Clunes, Hepburn Springs, Trentham and surrounding towns, and across southern Tasmania, including Hobart, Kingston, Huonville, Cygnet, Margate, Blackmans Bay and the Channel region. A consultant visits the home with fabric and material samples, measures each opening, and provides a fixed quotation with no obligation.

Both showrooms display working examples of the major product lines, including plantation shutters, honeycomb blinds, folding arm awnings and motorised systems, so customers can operate the products before ordering. The company also handles repairs and maintenance on its own installations, a service that has kept some customer relationships running across three generations of the same family.

The business also serves commercial clients, supplying anti-ligature window furnishings for health facilities and commercial-grade systems from Markilux, HelioScreen, Silent Gliss, Vertilux and Verosol.

For homes with tilt-and-turn or European-style windows, the company’s Perfect Fit range clips honeycomb, roller and venetian blinds directly to the window frame without drilling, keeping the glass line clean and the blind moving with the sash. It is a small detail, but it is the kind of problem that a mass-market retailer will not solve and a local manufacturer can, which is largely how the company has kept its place in the market for eight decades.

Anyone planning new window furnishings, replacing tired blinds or building an outdoor entertaining area can browse the full range and book a free measure and quote through the Taylor & Stirling website at https://www.taylorandstirling.com.au/

About Taylor & Stirling

Taylor & Stirling has manufactured and installed custom window furnishings since 1946. The company operates showrooms at 22 Sturt Street, Ballarat, Victoria and 11 Wilmot Road, Huonville, Tasmania, with manufacturing in Ballarat and on Bruny Island. Its range covers curtains, sheers, roller blinds, honeycomb blinds, roman blinds, venetian blinds, vertical blinds, plantation shutters, pelmets, curtain tracks, skylight blinds, motorised blinds, outdoor blinds, awnings and retractable roof systems for residential and commercial customers across regional Victoria and southern Tasmania.
 

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One platform for FSBO buyers, sellers, travelers, renters and business users — featuring FIFSCORE, AI restyling with recoloring and furniture modeling, 3D modeling, market insights, and Get Connected – Worldwide.

United States, 4th Jul 2026 — Global real estate represents the world’s largest asset class, valued at over $3+ trillion — yet the vast majority of the billions of individuals who participate in it as buyers, renters, property owners, investors, business operators, and travelers do so without access to quality, personalized market intelligence. The information advantage has historically accrued only to those who can afford professional advisors, institutional research, or well-connected networks. Today, Fifsee Inc., a Frisco, Texas-based AI technology company, announces the full global availability of its platform — with 100,000+ users already active across 118 countries — bringing role-specific intelligence, FIFSCORE, and AI advisor Fia to every participant in the global real estate ecosystem, on web, iOS, and Android.

FIFSCORE: The World’s First Personalized Real Estate Intelligence Score at Global Scale

FIFSCORE is Fifsee’s proprietary personal intelligence score — and the first of its kind to operate at true global scale. A first-time buyer in Mumbai, a landlord in Dubai, a tenant in London, a vacation rental host in Bali, a commercial business owner in Singapore, a traveler relocating from Toronto to Lisbon, and a seller in Sydney each receive a FIFSCORE calibrated to their specific role, local market, financial context, and transaction stage. FIFSCORE does not deliver generic market data. It delivers your intelligence score, in your market, for your role — in real time.

118 Countries. Seven Roles. One Platform.

Fifsee is the only platform in the world that serves all seven real estate participant roles at global scale, each with a fundamentally different intelligence experience:

• Buyers — AI-powered affordability analysis, price trajectory, mortgage intelligence, school district scoring, neighborhood demand signals, and cross-border property intelligence across all major global markets
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Fia: The World’s First Role-Aware Real Estate AI Available in 45 Languages

Powering every role, in every country, is Fia — a floating AI assistant available in voice and text across 45 languages. Fia is role-aware and user-aware: she knows whether you are a buyer in Brazil, a landlord in the UAE, a business owner in South Korea, or a traveler planning a move from Canada to Portugal — and she tailors every response, recommendation, and market insight to your specific situation. For the billions of people around the world who navigate real estate without professional support, Fia is the advisor they have never been able to access.

Democratizing Intelligence Across the World’s Most Underserved Real Estate Markets

In mature markets like the U.S., U.K., and Australia, Fifsee competes on intelligence quality and role-specificity. In high-growth markets across South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa — where real estate markets are opaque, professional advisory is expensive, and information asymmetry is greatest — Fifsee delivers something entirely new: a professional-grade AI advisor and market intelligence score accessible to anyone with a smartphone. The platform is free to download and free to get started — globally.

Get Connected: AI-Matched Professionals Across 118 Countries

Get Connected matches users to verified real estate agents, mortgage brokers, attorneys, property managers, and over 35 categories of service professionals — in any country — using AI to match by need, location, and transaction context. For users in markets where professional networks are inaccessible or expensive to navigate, Get Connected delivers qualified professional connections that would otherwise require weeks of effort and significant advisory spend.

“We didn’t build another real estate app. We built an intelligent engine that understands who you are, where you are, and what you need — and then acts on it. Every user gets a FIFSCORE — a personal intelligence score that tells them exactly where they stand in their real estate journey. That’s Fifsee.”

— Sri Varadhan, Founder, Fifsee Inc.

Availability

Fifsee is available now, free to download, across web, iOS, and Android. Users can access AI reports, FIFSCORE, market insights, and Fia from day one.

Web: https://fifsee.com

iOS: Available on the App Store

Android: Available on Google Play

About Fifsee Inc.

Fifsee Inc. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Frisco, Texas. The company’s mission is to democratize real estate intelligence — making the quality of advice previously available only to the wealthy accessible to every person, in every country, across all seven roles in the real estate ecosystem. Fifsee currently serves 100,000+ users across 118 countries on web, iOS, and Android.

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Pre-Broadcast PV and Full Main Visual Officially Unveiled – Premiere: Acts and Preview Cuts

Tokyo, Japan, 3rd Jul 2026 – CyberAgent, Inc. announced production updates for the television anime “Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia” ahead of its scheduled television premiere in Japan on July 4, 2026. The announcement includes the release of a new promotional video (PV), a new main visual, and confirmation that the ending theme song for the series will be “STAR”, performed by QUEEN BEE.

Prior to the upcoming broadcast, the pre-broadcast PV has been released! In addition, the ending theme song that will will be featured in each episode is set to be “STAR”, a new song by QUEEN BEE, a Japanese music group that has captured global attention.

The original work, A Witch’s Life in Mongol, serialized in Japan on AKITASHOTEN’s Souffle website and written by Tomato Soup, is a historical court drama set in the 13th-century Mongol Empire.

It depicts the story of Sitara, a young girl who strives to survive a harsh fate by using knowledge as her weapon. has received several industry recognitions, including first place in “Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023” (Women’s Category) and recognition in the Manga Taisho awards.  Animation production will be handled by Science SARU.

Most recently, TV anime Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia was selected for the TV Film Production at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026, and Manga A Witch’s Life in Mongol was selected the Grand Prize in the Comic Division at the 55th Japan Cartoonists Association Awards.

Pre-Broadcast PV & Full Main Visual Unveiled! Ending Theme Song Confirmed as “STAR” by QUEEN BEE, Featuring Special Comment from Author Tomato Soup!

The newly released promotional video introduces key scenes from the series and provides viewers with an early look at the animation produced by Science SARU. A new main visual has also been released in advance of the television premiere.

Furthermore, the full-scope version of the main visual marks its world premiere.. Depicting an endless blue sky, a winding river, and a traditional ger pitched against the vast Mongolian plains, this single artwork encapsulates the visual design and production work that Science SARU is renowned for. The expansive landscape hints at the sweeping scale of the upcoming story, where the determination of Sitara and Toregene will eventually escalate into a massive storm that shakes the entire Mongol Empire. 

ENDING THEME BY QUEEN BEE

The ending theme song for the series has been confirmed as “STAR”, a brand-new track by QUEEN BEE.

The ending theme song has been confirmed as “STAR,” a newly produced song performed by QUEEN BEE for the series. The song will be used as the ending theme beginning with the television broadcast.

Above: QUEEN BEE

QUEEN BEE’s new single “STAR” is available from July 5, 2026.

Special Premiere Acts and Preview Cuts

Above: Preview Cuts 1 

The year is 1213, in the eastern Iranian city of Tus. Sitara, a young girl who has lost her mother and been torn far from her homeland, is taken in by Fatima, a kind-hearted lady from a family of scholars. At first, Sitara detests studying and tries to escape, but Fatima’s son Muhammad, an aspiring scholar himself, teaches her the true importance of learning, telling her: “If you study and become wise, no matter what trouble befalls you, you’ll know the best way forward.”

Above: Preview Cuts 2

Sitara and the others spend their days peacefully enriching themselves with knowledge.

Yet their peaceful lives are suddenly shattered.
With the Mongol Empire on the rise, the army led by Tolui, the fourth prince, finally closes in on the land Sitara calls home—Plunged into the depths of despair as a captive of the Mongol army, Sitara is approached by Shira, a young boy working as an interpreter for the Mongols. 

Above: Preview Cuts3

Original Story: Tomato Soup “A Witch’s Life in Mongol” (Souffle/AKITASHOTEN)
Opening Theme Song – “Stella” by SEKAI NO OWARI 
Ending Theme Song – “STAR” by QUEEN BEE 

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