Food Retailing / Supermarkets

Cold Stone Creamery to Enter Egypt

First location to open this month

Published

12 years ago

June 7, 2012

VMSD Staff

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Kahala, parent company of Cold Stone Creamery, has signed a 10-year master franchise agreement with Squadra to develop locations in Egypt. Plans call for eight stores within the next four years, with the first location expected to open this month.

“We are pleased to continue to strengthen our international presence by entering an entirely new continent,” says Dan Beem, Cold Stone Creamery’s president of international. “We have great expectations for Cold Stone Creamery to flourish within Egypt, as well as future plans to continue expanding throughout the continent of Africa.” The chain operates more than 1500 locations in 19 countries.

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