Cafe Coffee Day

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Café Coffee Day

Type	Public
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Bangalore, India
Key people	Naresh Malhotra, Director
Industry	Restaurants
Products	Coffee
Revenue	???
Employees	???
Website	CafeCoffeeDay.com

A cafe opposite Don Bosco High School, Matunga

Café Coffee Day is a chain of coffee shops in India. A division of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. (ABCTCL), it is commonly known as Coffee Day. It opened its first cafe in 1996 on Brigade Road in Bangalore, and today has the largest cafe retail chain in India - with 401 cafes in 65 cities.

Headquartered in Bangalore, a majority of its cafes are also located in Bangalore. The cafe chain has had much success riding, and to some extent creating, the cafe culture wave that swept across metropolitan India following the BPO boom and the resultant increase in youth spending power. With a hip, trendy image, the chain attracts a lot of young folk who work in BPO businesses. It has even tied up with WorldSpace and Microsense to enable its cafes with satellite radio and Wi-Fi, respectively. Its first Wi-Fi cafe was opened on Lavelle Road, Bangalore.

Coffee Day sources coffee from 5000 acres of coffee estates, the 2nd largest in Asia, that is owned by a sister concern and from 11,000 small growers. It is one of India’s leading coffee exporters, with clients across the USA, Europe and Japan.

With its roots in the golden soil of Chickmaglur, the home of some of the best Indian coffees and with the vision of a true entrepreneur nurturing it, Coffee Day has its business spanning the entire value chain of coffee consumption in India. Its different divisions include: Coffee Day Fresh 'n' Ground (which owns 350 coffee bean and powder retail outlets), Coffee Day Xpress (which owns 341 Coffee Day kiosks), Coffee Day Takeaway (which owns 7000 vending machines), Coffee Day Exports and Coffee Day Perfect (FMCG Packaged Coffee) division. It is now entering the European market as well, making forays into Pakistan, Austria and Germany to set up cafes abroad.