Brands
Mother Dairy focuses on east; eyes Rs 7,000 crore biz by FY16
KOLKATA: Mother Dairy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board, which launched its dairy whitener, under the ‘Dailycious’ brand in Kolkata, is expecting volumes to go up and cross the Rs 100 crore mark following the new launch. At present, the company reports about Rs 30 crore business annually from its dairy business in the east.
Additionally, the company is looking at an overall organisational business of nearly Rs 7,000 crore by the end of this financial year (2015-16), up from Rs 6,300 crore reported last year. The company is expecting a growth rate of around 11 per cent in the current fiscal.
“At Mother Dairy, it has been our constant endeavour to offer exceptional value to consumers, and this has been the core of our products. Carrying on the same ethos, the dairy whitener is being launched under the Dailycious brand. It will be made available through a wide network of distribution channels of nearly 10,000 outlets, including retail and model retail formats across the region,” said Mother Dairy business head (dairy products) Subhashis Basu.
The company plans to penetrate in the eastern and north-eastern states through the category by offering the product at lower price points compared to other existing players. It has chosen the eastern states to launch the product as this zone is milk-deficient and consumes it in big scale, he hinted.
The company has lined up similar rollout plans for other cities and important markets across the country. The dairy whitener market is pegged at Rs 2,000 crore with east and the north east markets accounting for 50 per cent of the total, he said.
Initially, besides West Bengal, Dailycious would be launched in the North East, Bihar, Odhisha and Kerala, he said. “Whitener products will be manufactured from our new plant at Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, where we have made an investment in excess of Rs 150 crore,” Basu added.
The eastern states contribute to 45 per cent of the total market, said Basu. According to him, the company is eyeing a five per cent market share by this fiscal. The products will be available from 14 April.
Basu also informed that dairy products like fresh milk, ice cream, butter milk and lassi among others, contributes to about 80 per cent of the company’s total revenue.
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.
