Mado (food company)

MADO is a Turkish ice cream and pastry brand that has about 300 outlets in Turkey and 22 other countries around the world.^[1] The brand gets its name from two words: "Maraş", the former name of the city where the firm is originated; and "Dondurma", the Turkish sort of ice-cream.^[2]

MADO

Company type	Corporation
Genre	Ice cream, desserts, meal
Founded	1850; 175 years ago (1850) (original) (Kahramanmaraş, Turkey) 1991; 34 years ago (1991) (franchise) (Istanbul, Turkey)
Founder	Yaşar Kanbur
Headquarters	Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
Key people	Mehmet Kanbur (chairman)
Products	Ice-cream, cake, börek, breakfast
Website	www.mado.com.tr

Turkish kanafeh at a MADO

History

MADO was founded in 1850 by Yaşar Kanbur. The ice cream shop became a chain after 1991. It has more than 305 restaurants and cafés in Turkey, and also has branches in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, China, Taiwan, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Malaysia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan Egypt, Libya,^[3] Iraq, Greece, Georgia, Germany, Jordan and Oman.

In 2019, MADO opened its first shop in Taiwan in a joint venture with the Taiwanese conglomerate Teco Group.^[4]