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Bhartia’s owned “Jubilant FoodWorks Limited,” — the master franchisee of world renowned QSR (Quick Service Restaurants) pizza brand “Domino’s Pizza” in the South asia (except Pakistan)– according to media reports is looking at an IPO so as to enable one of its private equity (PE) investor JPMorgan Chase & Co, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate, [...]

Pollo Campero, the Latin American chicken restaurants quick service (QSR ) retail chain with close to 60 stores in the US, is getting ready for a festive season launch into India’s multi-billion-dollar fast food market.
The world’s largest $450 million Latin American chicken quick service restaurant chain, founded in 1971 in Guetmalan, offers “Flavor You Can’t [...]

“The Indian franchise market has recorded a steady annual growth of 30-35 per cent in the last five years. The annual turnover of the Indian franchise industry is $3.3 billion, and is projected to grow further in the years to come,” said Aileen Crowe Nandi, Principal Commercial Officer, US Consulate-General, Chennai, quoting published reports. She [...]

Domino’s Pizza, among the world’s largest pizza brands, is exploring new business formats to strengthen its business in the country. The new formats, according to Domino’s Pizza India CEO Ajay Kaul, will include include ‘online’ ordering service and ‘express’ counters.
Domino’s Pizza India, the master franchisee of the US-based Domino’s Pizza in South Asia, was founded [...]

Yum! Brands, the US-based world’s largest network of system restaurants with nearly 36,000 restaurants in over 110 countries/ territories, employing over 1.4 million persons, has decided to go aggressively on expanding the network of its restaurants in India.
According to Niren Chaudhary, Managing Director of its Indian subsidiary Yum! Restaurants India, the company will expand its [...]

Spencer’s Retail, a Sanjiv Goenka-led retail arm of RPG group, which once ran a multi-format retail chain of around 400 stores, has trimmed down its operations in the last one year to bring down the number of its stores to 264.
The business, which was badly affected due to decline in demand as a consequence of [...]

B S Nagesh, the public face of India’s leading department format retail chain and managing director of Shoppers Stop, who has been working with the company since its inception in 1991, is taking over as Vice Chairman of the company, from today.
Founded 19 years ago on the 27th October, 1991 with the unveiling of its [...]

Spencer’s Retail, among the country’s oldest and leading retailers, unveiled a new Shop-In-Shop (SIS) format Gourmet store in Kolkata on Thursday.
“In India there is a propensity for good food. It may not be a volume market but would be a niche market, which is expected to grow with time. This store would cater to a [...]

India Franchisee of Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken quick restaurant chains, appears to have run into trouble with the government authorities dealing with foreign exchange regulations (FIPB) over breach of certain conditions it accepted while obtaining license from them to operate within India.
Yum Restaurants, the franchisee, according to a newspaper report, had [...]

Barista Lavazza, the wholly owned Indian subsidiary of famed Italian coffee major Lavazza, (which earlier known as Barista was acquired from well-known NRI businessman Shiva Sankaran (who had earlier also acquired it from Tatas) is making new strides in its new rebranded avatar by focusing on highways.
Barista Lavazza is setting up new eateries on either side [...]