Jack Cowin is a Canadian-Australian businessman and entrepreneur with a long-term involvement in franchised fast food chains in Australia and Canada.
18 Facts About Jack Cowin
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Jack Cowin is the Executive Chairman of Competitive Foods Australia, one of Australia's largest privately held businesses.
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Jack Cowin has been an investor in Australia's Ten Network, serving as a non-executive director.
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Jack Cowin served as the Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 2015 until 2019.
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Jack Cowin was born on 13 July 1942 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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Jack Cowin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1964.
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Jack Cowin became an insurance salesman with London Life for four years in Toronto before deciding to visit Australia to assess some business opportunities.
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Aged 26 years, Jack Cowin returned to Australia to evaluate expanding Kentucky Fried Chicken into the market that at that stage had limited fast food options.
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Jack Cowin bought the right to open ten KFC franchises in Western Australia, raised 10,000 each from thirty Canadians to launch the business in December 1969, having moved with his wife and young child.
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Cowin later discovered someone else had the rights to the Burger King trademark in Australia, so Cowin instead called the outlets Hungry Jack's.
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In 2017, Jack Cowin advocated for the elimination of weekend worker penalty rates within Australia, regarding them as a "thing of the past".
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Jack Cowin owns Consolidated Foods, a meat processing business that exports throughout the world.
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Jack Cowin sold a substantial investment in Stanbroke Pastoral Company, one of the country's biggest cattle station operators.
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Jack Cowin is an investor in the Lone Star Texas Grill restaurant chain in Canada.
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Jack Cowin has served as a non-executive director of the TEN Television Network, Chandler MacLeod, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, and Fairfax Media.
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Jack Cowin is the Chairman and largest shareholder of Domino's Pizza Enterprises.
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Jack Cowin served as the 22nd Chancellor of the University from September 2015 until May 2019.
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Jack Cowin is an active member of the World Presidents Organization.