Available Stores/Sites
The following are some of the sites available before Feb 2012 :
- Tygervalley Centre Cape Town
- Brakpan Mall at Carnival
- JHB areas – Head Office tender
- JHB – Eastgate
- JHB Northgate
- Stellenbosch
- Polokwane
- Welkom
- Pretoria – several sites
- Cape Town area – Belville
- Knysna
The following are some of the sites available from late 2011 but before early 2013:
Western Cape
- Oudtshoorn
- Hermanus
- Gordons Bay
Gauteng
- Sandton
- MidRand
- Benoni
- Pretoria
- Brits
- Dainfern
- Midrand
- Bryanston
Eastern Cape
- Port Elizabeth
Mpumalanga
- Witbank
- Nelspruit
- Middleburg
- Burgersfort
- Groblersdal
- Secunda
KwaZulu Natal
- Durban 2 sites
- Ballito
- Newcastle
- Umhlanga
Namibia
- Swakopmund
- Windhoek
Other
- Polokwane
- Uppington
- Modimolle
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Klerksdorp
- Maseru
- Swaziland
International Franchising
Dulce Cafe prefers to expand via the master licensee route for various countries, and even specific territories within a particular country, as this ensures that the necessary brand protection and expansion takes place with interested partners on the ground.
The master licensee should have access to the necessary funds to grow the brand quite quickly, have the necessary clout and business contacts to secure the necessary sites, be prepared to commit themselves to being involved in the business, and have the same outlook to business and passion for the brand that we, the license holders, have for the Dulce Cafe concept.
The master license is usually for a period of 10 years, with a master license fee payable for the rights within the respective territory. The master license would require the licensee to open a certain number of stores within the license period. The master license fee and potential number of stores would depend on our negotiations as well as the potential for the number of stores within the territory concerned.
Currently the store Turnkey cost is in the region of USD350k per store each to open, depending on various factors like size of store, etc. The Dulce Café stores that are operating in the Gulf (Bahrain and Qatar) in 2009/10 were trading well, despite the economic downturn, and have been well accepted by the people within these territories. We are currently looking at expanding into the rest of the Gulf States, parts of Africa , India, Mauritius, Australia etc. If you are interested in becoming a master licensee for the Dulce Cafe brand within your country, please send me more information about yourself, and/or a prospectus of your company, or the group with which you would be using to establish such an operation so that we can explore this possibility further.
We are currently expanding into Saudi Arabia late this year and then the rest of the Gulf States and North Africa . We are opening in Tanzania later this year, and Zambia &Ghana early next year, and Malawi late year. If you are interested in becoming a master licensee for the Dulce Cafe brand within your country, please send me more information about yourself, and/or a prospectus of your company, or the group with which you would be using to establish such an operation so that we can explore this possibility further.
The following stores are available for sale as of November 2011:
- Greenstone, Johannesburg
- Vincent Park, East London
- Hillcrest, Durban
- Rustenburg
- Mountain Mill, Worcester
If you are interested, please contact Deirdre or Martin on 041 396 1200
Alternatively, you can email at; deirdreb@dulce.co.za or martinf@dulce.co.za
