Kemp & Denning (K&D) was established in Hobart in 1902, as a partnership between Andrew Garrington Kemp and Victor Ernest Denning. In 1917 Kemp purchased Denning's interest, and since then the Kemp family has run the business. It began as a timber business that expanded into selling building materials and hardware. K&D also owned a sawmill and brickworks. It had a significant presence in southern Tasmania.;;In 1986, it developed Australia's first home and building retail warehouse, based on US models, on its Melville/Murray Street site - K&D Warehouse.;;From 1990 to July 2015 it joined with Mitre10.;;Kemp & Denning (Hardware Pty Ltd) applied for company deregistration in April 2020.;;The records of K&D subsidiary companies held in the Tasmanian Archives can be found by searching below under each of the "controlled agencies".;;