Brands
Grofers added 2.5 lakh new customers to its portfolio during Grand Orange Bag Days
MUMBAI: Online grocery delivery service, Grofers has shared that it added 2.5 lakh new customers to its portfolio during its 9-day-long ‘Grand Orange Bag Days’ sale. Grofers was offering 100 per cent cash back (up to Rs 5000) to the customers shopping from its site for the time period. It also shared that with record-breaking numbers, the sale hit Rs 207.52 crore GMV.
It also shared some other insights into the shopping habits of the people depending on area. As per its findings, Delhi/NCR ordered the most flour, tea, and ghee; Lucknow led the almonds, flour, and detergent powder section; people in Mumbai and Pune ordered the most of almonds, coconut oil, and butter; Bengaluru purchased ghee and rice; and Kolkata preferred flour, coconut oil, and tea.
Delhi made the highest amount of expenditure, amounting to a whooping Rs 85.80 crore, followed by Mumbai (Rs 35.8 crore). Bengaluru followed the suit and spent Rs 28.2 crore.
The country also reiterated its passion for tea with over 1.32 lakh units of tea sold, followed by 3 lakh sugar packets and over 85 thousand packets of cookies.
The above findings are derived from the order analysis for Grofers ‘Grand Orange Bag Days’ sale, which started from 19 January through 27 January 2019. The sale was operational across all 13 Grofers markets such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Noida, Mumbai, and Pune.
Brands
Dunkin’ Donuts to exit India as Jubilant FoodWorks ends 15-year franchise deal
The quick service restaurant giant is ending a 15-year franchise partnership with the American doughnut chain, even as it renews its Domino’s agreement for another 15 years
NOIDA: Dunkin’ is done in India. Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the country’s leading quick service restaurant operator, has decided not to renew its franchise agreement with the American coffee and doughnut chain, and will wind down its Indian stores in a phased manner before December 31, 2026, bringing a 15-year partnership to a quiet, loss-laden close.
The decision, approved by JFL’s board on March 30, 2026, ends a relationship that began with a Multiple Unit Development Franchise Agreement signed on February 24, 2011. JFL will now evaluate and undertake what it described in a regulatory filing as the “rationalisation and/or cessation of certain operations and/or sale, transfer or disposal of assets and/or assignment or transfer of franchise rights,” all in consultation with Dunkin’s brand owners and strictly within the terms of the original agreement.
The numbers tell the story bluntly. In the financial year 2024-25, Dunkin’ India posted a revenue of Rs 37 crore against a loss of Rs 19 crore — a haemorrhage that was always going to test the patience of a parent company recording revenues of Rs 6,104 crore and a profit of Rs 194 crore in the same period. Doughnuts, it turns out, were never going to move the needle.
The contrast with JFL’s handling of its other marquee franchise could hardly be sharper. Even as it walks away from Dunkin’, the company has just doubled down on Domino’s, signing a fresh Master Franchise Agreement on March 31, 2026, granting it exclusive rights to develop and operate Domino’s Pizza stores in India for 15 years, with an option to renew for a further 10.
JFL, incorporated in 1995 and promoted by the Bharatia family, operates a network of more than 3,500 stores across six markets — India, Turkey, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Its portfolio includes Domino’s and Popeyes on the global side, and two home-grown brands: Hong’s Kitchen and COFFY, a café brand in Turkey.
For Dunkin’, India was always a stretch. The brand never quite cracked the cultural code in a market where filter coffee and chai command fierce loyalty and where the doughnut remains, at best, an occasional indulgence rather than a daily habit. Fifteen years, mounting losses and a parent with better things to spend its capital on was always going to be a difficult equation to solve.
The doughnut has had its last day. The pizza, however, is staying.
