Industry Hospitality Website www.missmaud.com.au Headquarters Northbridge | Founder Maud Edmiston Founded 1971 | |
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Miss Maud is a hospitality group based in Perth, Western Australia, and as at 2015 comprised a 52-room boutique hotel, restaurant, sixteen pastry houses (cafés) and a catering service.
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History
The business was founded in 1971 by Maud Edmiston, a Swedish immigrant, who opened a small Swedish-style pastry house in City Arcade, Perth, to resemble the bakery near her home in Stockholm
In 1973 Edmiston opened the Miss Maud Smörgåsbord Restaurant on the corner of Pier and Murray Streets, Perth. In 1977 the Miss Maud Private Hotel was at the same address. In 1979 she applied for the first alfresco dining area in Perth, outside her restaurant in Pier Street.
In May 1988 the company went into receivership following an investment into a failed resort development in the south-west of Western Australia, increased interest rates and the stock market crash in October the previous year. In 1989 Edmiston traded her way out of receivership. In early 1989 expansion of the business interstate was planned.
In 1992 Edmiston was named as the 'Bulletin Qantas Business Woman of the Year and in 1999 she was awarded the Order of the Polar Star. In 2001 she was recognised as 'Western Australian Citizen of the Year - Industry and Commerce', the first and only woman to receive this award.
In 2003 Miss Maud opened their first pastry house on the east coast of Australia in the Westfield shopping centre in Miranda, New South Wales. The venture was short-lived as Edmiston did not like the constant interstate travel.
In 2009 Edmiston launched a catering service.
The company employs over 500 staff.