Café Coffee Day (CCD) is an Indian multinational chain of coffeehouses headquartered in Bengaluru,

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. It is a subsidiary of Coffee Day Enterprises Limited. Internationally, CCDs are present in

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History

Café Coffee Day Global Limited Company is a Chikkamagaluru-based business which grows coffee in its own estates of 20,000 acres. It is the largest producer of arabica beans in Asia, exporting to various countries including

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, and Japan.

V. G. Siddhartha Veerappa Gangaiah Siddhartha Hegde ( – 29 July 2019) was an Indian businessman from Karnataka. He was the founder of the cafe chain Café Coffee Day and served as its chairman and managing director. He also served on the board of directors of ...

started the café chain in 1996 when he incorporated Coffee Day Global, which is the parent of the Coffee Day chain. The first CCD outlet was set up on July 11, 1996, at

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. It rapidly expanded to other cities in

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, with more than 1,000 cafés open across the nation by 2011. In 2010, it was announced that a consortium led by

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would invest in Coffee Day Resorts, owned by the company. The same year, the logo was changed to the current logo, which the company stated was to showcase the chain as a place to talk. This was done with major changes in the layout of the stores, including the addition of lounges and a total revamp of the interiors. Image:Happy Valentine's Day...!.jpg, A cup of coffee at Café Coffee Day File:Cafecoffeday.JPG, Sandwich, coffee and tea served at CCD The company is vertically integrated as per the strategy to cut costs: from owning the plantations to growing the coffee, making the coffee machines and making the furniture for the outlets. On 29 July 2019, Siddhartha went missing, and his body was found in the Nethravathi river backwaters two days later. A letter, assumed to be written by Siddhartha addressing the board of directors and staff, was made public in which he takes responsibility for not creating a profitable business model. In September 2019, the company appointed auditing firm

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to scrutinize their books of accounts. They also indicated the auditor will also look into circumstances of the last letter written by the founder and the points he made in it. In March 2020, Coffee Day Enterprises Limited announced that it has reached an agreement to sell Global Village Technology Park, a 90-acre tech park on the outskirts of Bengaluru, for a total consideration of ₹2,700 crore for repaying the debt of Cafe Coffee Day's associate firms and their promoters.

Outlets

As of June 2021, the company had 550 café outlets in different cities of India. File:Cafe Coffee Day, Devaraj Urs Road, Mysore City.jpg, Mysore outlet File:Café Coffee Day in Kempegowda Airport, Aug 2008.jpg, Bangalore Airport Cafe Coffee Day Barkatpura Hyderabad.jpg, Hyderabad

Subsidiaries

In June 2010, CCD acquired Café Emporio, a café chain from the

. At that time, Café Emporio had 11 cafés in the Czech Republic. Café Coffee Day's divisions include: * Coffee Day Fresh 'n' Ground, which owns 375

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and powder retail outlets * Coffee Day Square, a high-level coffee bar in

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and

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* Coffee Day Xpress, which runs 537 Coffee Day kiosks * Coffee Day Beverages, which runs over 56,799 vending machines * Coffee Day Exports, its exporting wing * Coffee Day Perfect, its fast-moving consumer goods packaged coffee division * Coffee Day B2C Plant, coffee vending machine manufacturing division

Footnotes

External links

Official website
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History

Outlets

Subsidiaries

See also

Footnotes

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