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Housing.com appoints Aditya Singh Sandhu as chief revenue officer
Veteran executive joins as platform sharpens revenue strategy and expands into tier-2 markets
GURGAON: Digital real estate platform Housing.com has appointed Aditya Singh Sandhu as chief revenue officer, betting on his two decades of leadership experience to turbocharge revenue growth and sharpen its go-to-market strategy.
Based out of the company’s Gurgaon office, Sandhu will spearhead efforts to expand market presence, accelerate revenue growth and scale commercial operations across key business segments.
Sandhu brings more than 20 years of experience spanning India and the United States, with stints across FMCG, e-commerce and technology-led firms. Over the course of his career he has built and scaled businesses at different stages—from early-stage startups to large enterprises.
Before joining Housing.com, Sandhu held senior leadership roles at ITC Limited, Udaan, Nykaa, VLCC and Ustraa. He also brings entrepreneurial credentials, having co-founded a startup where he served as chief operating officer and helped build a customer-centric, cash-flow-positive business model.
Praveen Sharma, chief executive of REA India, said the appointment comes at a crucial moment as the company prepares for its next phase of expansion.
“We are delighted to welcome Aditya to Housing.com at such a pivotal stage of our growth journey. His extensive experience across diverse sectors, combined with his strong business acumen and people-first leadership style, makes him uniquely suited to lead our revenue function,” Sharma said.
Sandhu said the country’s rapidly evolving digital real estate ecosystem offers significant headroom for growth.
“I am excited to join Housing.com at a time when the digital real estate ecosystem in India is evolving rapidly. The platform has built a strong foundation and holds immense potential to further transform how people discover and transact real estate,” Sandhu said.
He added that the company’s recent push into 15 new tier-2 cities opens the door to a wider pool of homebuyers.
“With Housing.com recently expanding into 15 new tier-2 cities, there is a tremendous opportunity to bring digital-first property discovery to a wider base of homebuyers. I look forward to working with the team to drive growth, enhance customer value, and build a robust, future-ready revenue engine,” he said.
Founded in 2012, Housing.com was acquired by REA India, formerly known as Elara Technologies, in 2017. The platform now operates in more than 45 cities across tier-1 and tier-2 markets, offering listings across new homes, resale homes, rentals, plots, commercial spaces and co-living accommodation, alongside advertising solutions for developers and brokers.
With Sandhu now steering the revenue engine, Housing.com is signalling clear intent: scale faster, push deeper into India’s expanding property markets and tighten its grip on the country’s digital house-hunting boom.
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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.
