From Corner Café to JSE Giant: The Famous Brands Story
By Carié Maas
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George Halamandres's family came to South Africa from Greece with practically nothing but big ideas. The company they founded grew, restaurant by restaurant, eventually achieving unimagined success on a national and international scale.
From Corner Café to JSE Giant chronicles the birth and rebirth of some of South Africa's best known brands, and tells the story of the people who inspired and managed them.
These brands include:
Steers · Wimpy · Debonairs Pizza · FishAways · tashas · Europa · Giramundo · KEG · McGinty's · Milky Lane · House of Coffees · Mugg & Bean · Turn 'n Tender · Vovo Telo · Fego Caffé · Trufruit · The Brewers Guild · Brazilian Café · Juicy Lucy · The Bread Basket · Aqua Monte · Baltimore
Carié Maas
Carie Maas is the author of the runaway bestseller of 2011, Jannie Mouton: and then they fired me. She has built up an impressive career in financial journalism, working at some of South Africa's most prestigious publications as a financial and travel writer. In 2012, she resigned to focus on writing full time, resulting in From Corner Café to JSE Giant and a recently published novel, Koljander. Carie divides her time between her home in Johannesburg and her parents in Mpumalanga.
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