Mecca founder Jo Horgan has been named Melburnian of the Year in recognition of the impact the business she founded 28 years ago on Toorak Road has had on the city.

The City of Melbourne award comes after Horgan opened Mecca’s flagship three-storey department store dedicated to all things beauty in Bourke Street Mall in August.

Horgan says it is an “extraordinary honour” to receive the accolade, “especially when you look at those who have already received it and the incredible impact they’ve had on this city”.

Horgan runs Mecca with her husband, co-chief executive Pete Wetenhall, and the couple have grown what was a single store into Australia’s biggest cosmetics retailer, with 110 stores around Australia and New Zealand and more than 7000 employees.

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