Brands
LimeRoad For Men revolutionises online shopping & style discovery for men
MUMBAI: Limeroad revolutionized style discovery for women, today announced the launch of its new offering – LIMEROAD for Men.
LIMEROAD for Men is launching with 100,000+ style suggestionsand products for men, in order to address a unique need gap – people care deeply about how they look, yet find it difficult to find what they love when shown millions of options. LIMEROAD’s unique community of 200,000+ scrapbookers together with their deep algorithms create for users, fresh, unique looks, every 30 secondson the platform.
LIMEROAD for men includes 23 sub categories of apparel and accessories from over 250 Indian and International brands, together with tens of thousands of innovatively styled looks like “Style-like-bhai, shirts & sneakers, island style, cheeky graphics and minimal prints.”
This is a first for Indian men, who will now be able to look at their favourite stars, movies, sports heroes, as well as the latest trends in fashion and pick similar, affordable styles at a click – all thanks to LIMEROAD’s unique extensive community of stylists, called scrapbookers. As users keep repeating on LIMEROAD, the platform’s personalization algorithms kick in, thus automatically getting users closer to what they are likely to like the most. It is this content that drives the highest engagement and conversion rates in the industry – 13.5% for repeat users, and 7.5% for new users on the LIMEROAD app.
“Our mission is to build India’s most extensive discovery platform, driven by unique engaging content. We started out solving the problem first for women, and tackled the most fragmented of supplier and option ranges, enabling women to discover local and global trends like indie/ikat, gota patti, palazzos or fringes and botanical prints, pretty much as soon as they are first seen. All of this at super affordable prices. We will now bring this same discoverability to Indian men. We are ultimately democratizing fashion.” says Suchi Mukherjee, Founder & CEO, LimeRoad.
At launch, the internal team at LIMEROAD, 70% of who are men, were simply ecstatic. Says Prashant Malik, co-Founder & CTO, “I have spent the last 3 hours simply unable to do anything else but browse the platform. So glad we have launched LimeRoad For Men. Why should girls have all the fun?” Anuj VSN, LIMEROAD’s new CMO adds saying “We are solving a fundamental problem for men. We believe that at a macro level, men are getting more conscious about how they look, driven by local and global influences. And LimeRoad For Men is a delightful way to solve the problem.”
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.
