Engel Sypkes

Engel Sypkes
Nationality Australian

Engel Sypkes was an Australian businessman from the Netherlands who migrated to Tasmania in 1951.

In 1951, Engel, his wife Ann and their three children migrated from the Netherlands amid new threats of war in Europe.[1]

They came by plane on the same flight as the Vos family, who established the Roelf Vos supermarket chain in northern Tasmania.[2]

Shortly after arriving in Tasmania, the family opened a small general store in Stanley.[1] After a trip to the United States Sypkes was exposed to 'Modern Merchandising Methods'. Shortly after his return to Tasmania he opened their first Purity supermarket in Hobart in 1958.[1]

Before its sale to Woolworths in 1981, his supermarket chain encompassed sixteen stores throughout southern Tasmania.[1]

In 1990, his sons Rudie and Peter launched the Chickenfeed Bargain Stores, a chain of discount retail stores located throughout Tasmania.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sypkes.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-11. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/weblog/article/rudie-and-north-korea/. Retrieved 2009-05-11. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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