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. Across these markets, DPE has over 2,800 stores. In May 2005 DPE became the first publicly listed pizza company in Australia. In 2018, Domino's was inducted into the

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Early years

Australia

The first Domino's store to open in Australia was in Springwood, Queensland, in 1983, and offered home delivery after home delivery was introduced into Australia by the Pizza Oven Family Restaurants located at multiple sites all over the southside of Brisbane owned by Paul Hughes & Bill Kerwick in 1981. The Australian and New Zealand Master Franchise was bought by Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza in 1993 and in 1995 the two brands merged and rebranded as Domino's Pizza.

New Zealand

Domino's New Zealand was the first to introduce drone-delivery pizza in November 2016, partnering with Flirtey Drone Delivery.

Present day

Australia Currently, there are around 700 Domino's stores in Australia, making it the biggest pizza franchised business in the country. The Australian stores are spread right across the country, from the main capital cities like Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, to more rural areas like Armidale.

Timeline

* 1983: First Domino's store opened in Australia. * 1993: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza bought Domino's Pizza. * 1995: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza was merged into Domino's Pizza. * 1997: Domino's established the Domino's Partners Foundation. * 2000: Silvio's Dial-a-Pizza was renamed Domino's Pizza Australia. * 2001:

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and Grant Bourke, the two largest franchisees at the time, merged their stores into the corporate store network to bring the total to 50 corporate stores and 128 franchised stores. * 2003: Domino's expanded into new markets in Victoria, Australia, and Wellington, New Zealand. * 2005: Domino's listed on the

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, becoming the first publicly listed Australian pizza company. * 2006: Domino's purchased existing Domino's operations in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the principality of Monaco. * 2009: Domino's Australia launched an application for iPhone. * 2011: An online ordering mobile website was launched, as well as an application for Android ordering. Domino's hit 200,000 Facebook fans * 2014: Domino's launched Pizza Mogul, an initiative set to change the future of the pizza industry landscape. * 2015: Domino's launched GPS Driver Tracker, which allows customers track their order from the store. * 2016: Domino's launched the world first autonomous delivery vehicle, DRU or Domino's Robotic Unit (now known as 'DOM'). *2016: Domino's launched registered charity Give for Good *2017: Domino's installs the world's largest commercial

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system in one of its Sydney stores, in order to overcome the limited capability of the electrical grid. *2018: Domino's launched voice ordering through Amazon Alexa. *2018: Domino's opened its 700th store in Australia. *2019: Domino's launched New Pizza Chef with Augmented Reality, which allows customers to choose from endless flavour combinations and create their favourite pizza before their eyes through the Domino's app. *2019: Domino's launched voice ordering through the Google Assistant. *2019: Domino's Pizza Enterprises acquired Domino's Pizza territory in Denmark. *2021: Domino's Pizza Enterprises acquired Domino's Pizza Taiwan. *2022: Domino's Pizza Enterprises acquired Domino’s Pizza businesses in Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia.

References

External links

Domino's Pizza Enterprises corporate webpage

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Domino's New Zealand corporate webpage

Domino's Netherlands corporate webpage

Domino's France corporate history webpage

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