Stefan Ackerie (born 1941), usually known by the mononym Stefan, is a businessman who owns a chain of hairdressing salons in Brisbane, Australia.
Stefan Ackerie (born 1941), usually known by the mononym Stefan, is a businessman who owns a chain of hairdressing salons in Brisbane, Australia.
He was born in 1941 in Batroun, Lebanon. His family migrated when he was 15 to Adelaide, South Australia, where he trained as a hairdresser and learned to speak English at nightschool. [1]
He owns a chain of approximately 50 hairdressing salons throughout Queensland and New South Wales as well as the Brisbane restaurant Jo Jo's, a bar and restaurant originally opened above the Queen Street Mall in the 1970s and now on Melbourne Street, South Brisbane. [2] [3] He also owns Stefan's Boating World in Coomera on the Gold Coast, Queensland. [4]
Stefan's Brisbane headquarters is located in South Brisbane, underneath the Skyneedle, a landmark which Stefan bought to prevent it being moved overseas after World Expo '88. [5] When the Milton Tennis Centre was demolished circa 1999, Stefan rescued the 7-metre (23 ft) tennis racquet icon (based on the Aldila brand) erected there (he had sponsored the Queensland Tennis Open competition at that site). In June 2014, it was re-erected over the Frew Park tennis facility, which replaced the Milton Tennis Centre. [6]
Stefan was a finalist in the 2004 Australian of the Year awards. [7] He is also a keen power boat racer and holds the records for the fastest crossing of Bass Strait [8] and the fastest crossing of the Straits of Malacca. [1]
In 2013, Stefan was presented a Queensland Greats Award from the Queensland Government. [9]
In 2024, Stefan was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame in recognition of 'sustained entrepreneurship in developing an iconic Queensland business for 60 years'. [10]
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