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About Don Meij
Don Meij has been in the pizza business for over 17 years. Starting as a delivery driver for Silvio's Pizza while studying to be a High School Teacher, he fell in love with the pizza industry and took up a Store Managers Position in 1989. After a string of awards he was awarded 1989 Silvio's Manager of the year.
From there at only 19 years of age he was promoted to an Area Manager. For the next 6 years Don was promoted through every Operations Position in the Company as Silvio's grew into a National chain.
In 1993 when Silvio's became associated with Domino's in Australia, Don was promoted to General Manager and head of Domino's Australia. After a major participation in the change over of the Silvio's Pizza brand to Domino's Pizza, Don along with his wife decided to purchase a Domino's Franchise.
Over the next five years they grew to operate 17 stores with annual sales in excess of $17million. During their time as Franchisees they were Australia's largest, most awarded and most profitable franchisees. They were also recognised to be in the top 1% of Franchisees in the World for Domino's.
In April 2001, Don and Esme merged their stores into the Master Franchise of Australia, and along with Grant and Sandy Bourke (successful 8 store Franchisee's from Newcastle), purchased 11.5% each of the Domino's Pizza Australia, now with 234 stores Nationally. In November 2002, Don was promoted to CEO/Managing Director.
Since Don has become an owner in the Master Franchise and CEO/COO, Domino's Pizza Australia & New Zealand has lifted EBITDA by 500%, Nett Profit by 800%, average weekly sales have doubled, and the system has grown from 174 stores to 284 stores.
Franchisee's average store EBITDA has increased from an average of 10.8% to 14.9%, on an average weekly turnover that has also increased 20% during this time (so the quantum of dollars is significantly greater per Franchisee).
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