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Re:Inventing Demand by whatusername on Friday September 04, 2009 @01:34AM (#804332)
founder more so than owner.. Thinking Coles, Myer, David Jones, etc here.. Those companies are all publicly listed now..

For current Owner I can think of Harvey norman, Bing Lee (although it doesn't exist in VIC, Ken Bruce, And Crazy John until he passed away..)

Also: Walmart.

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Re:Inventing Demand by netsp on Friday September 04, 2009 @01:40AM (#804340)
Crazy John's name was Mustafa.
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Re:Inventing Demand by tdm911 on Friday September 04, 2009 @01:45AM (#804347)
I didn't know that. Mustafa Ilhan was his real name, not John Ilhan. There you go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ilhan

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Re:Inventing Demand by nedwin on Friday September 04, 2009 @02:25AM (#804395)
"Crazy Mustafa's" doesn't have quite the same ring to it
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Re:Inventing Demand by tomhoward on Friday September 04, 2009 @02:39AM (#804409)
More commonly heard angrily yelled out of car windows in Sydney Road.
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Re:Inventing Demand by netsp on Friday September 04, 2009 @03:42AM (#804472)
Or the cook at Alaysa.

I'm surprised at the number of Aussies in here.

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Re:Inventing Demand by tdm911 on Friday September 04, 2009 @06:21AM (#804580)
I noticed that too! A great Aussie success story brings us all out! :)
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Re:Inventing Demand by sho on Friday September 04, 2009 @06:26AM (#804582)
Bing Lee also passed away.
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