Company type | S.A. |
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Industry | Restaurants |
Genre | Coffee house |
Founded | 2008 |
Founder | Eleftherios Kiriakakis [1] |
Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 350+(2023) |
Area served | Greece, Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Canada, Turkey, North Macedonia, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, Germany, Iraq, Serbia |
Key people | Eleftherios Kyriakakis (Chairman & CEO) |
Products | Coffee Tea Pastries Frappuccino beverages Smoothies |
Services | Coffee |
Revenue | €62.439 million (2014) [2] |
€12.133 million (2014) [2] | |
Number of employees | 3000 (2020) |
Website | www |
Mikel Coffee Company, or Mikel, is a Greek coffeehouse chain, whose network consists of more than 350 coffee shops in 19 countries throughout the globe. [3] [4]
MIKEL launched its first coffee store in 2008 in the city of Larissa. [3] In the years that followed, MIKEL gradually expanded throughout Greece with the city of Volos being the starting point. [3] As of recently, MIKEL has expanded beyond Greece, launching its first coffee store in the United Arab Emirates in 2016. [5] The company has already opened four stores in Dubai and imposed itself as an important competitor in its sector. [6] [7] As of March 2018, the company has also begun operating in London. [8] As of August 2018, the company has also opened their first store in Australia. As of September 2018, the company has also opened their first store in U.S.A. [9] Since then, the company has established a presence in many Middle East countries and elsewhere.
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The brand name, stylised as "MIKEL", stands for "Maybe it's knowledge entering life", the company's motto. [3] The brand logo features the father of its founder, Eleftherios Kyriakakis. [3]
As of August 2024 there were 359 stores in the following 19 countries
Country | Number of stores |
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Greece | 261 |
Turkey | 44 |
Cyprus | 22 |
Saudi Arabia | 7 |
Bulgaria | 5 |
Kuwait | 3 |
United States of America | 2 |
United Arab Emirates | 2 |
Canada | 2 |
North Macedonia | 2 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Australia | 1 |
Romania | 1 |
Oman | 1 |
Jordan | 1 |
Germany | 1 |
Iraq | 1 |
Serbia | 1 |
Georgia | 1 |
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