Leonidas Kestekides

Leonidas Kestekides (1876-1948) (Girkanci: Λεωνίδας Κεστεκίδης) ya kasance mai ƙera cakulan Girka da aka haifa a daular Ottoman, wanda ya kafa sanannen kamfanin Leonidas a duniya a Belgium . Babban abin da kamfanin ke mayar da hankali shi ne Pralin (shells na cakulan tare da cikawa mai laushi), amma kuma suna sayar da marzipan, cakulan mai ƙarfi, da sauran kayan zaki.

Leonidas Kestekides an haife ta ne ga iyayen Cappadocia_Greeks" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cappadocian Greeks">Girkanci na Kappadocia a Nigde, Cappadotia (yanzu a Turkiyya) a cikin 1876. Labaran farkon shekarunsa sun bambanta, amma ya bayyana cewa ya bar Constantinople (yanzu Istanbul), ya zauna a Girka na ɗan lokaci sannan ya tafi Italiya, inda ya zama mai sayar da ruwan inabi. Ya yi fama da kudi, don haka ya yanke shawarar ƙaura zuwa Birnin New York, inda ya yi aiki a matsayin mai yin kayan kwalliya daga 1893 zuwa 1898, sannan ya koma Paris har zuwa 1908.

A shekara ta 1910, ya yi tafiya zuwa Belgium don halartar baje kolin duniya na 1910 a Brussels, inda aka ba shi lambar tagulla don kayan cakulansa.[1] Ya koma Belgium a 1913, ya halarci baje kolin duniya a Ghent, kuma ya koma Belgium har abada, bayan ya sadu da wata budurwa daga Brussels yayin ziyararsa.[2][3][4] Ya bude ɗakunan shayi a Brussels, Ghent da Blankenberge, kuma kasuwancin ya fadada daga can.