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“Naresh Malhotra, who went on to become the first CEO of CCD.”
― Prosenjit Datta, Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Café Coffee Day Founder V. G. Siddhartha

“the twelfth-century poet Layamon’s poem ‘Brut’ (written around 1190): ‘From heaven here came a marvelous flood; three days it rained blood, three days and three nights.”
― Anirban Bhattacharyya, Swipe Right to Kill: The Jaipur Tinder Murder Case

“companies and money constantly moved between them. He took new loans to pay off older ones. Most of his businesses were not making much profit. His reputation outsized the expanse of the empire he had created. He might have even got away with his operations indefinitely had it not been for a confluence of a few events, namely the IL&FS crisis in 2018 and an income tax raid in early 2019.”
― Prosenjit Datta, Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Café Coffee Day Founder V. G. Siddhartha

“In the first month after reaching 1,000 cafes, the latte art on cappuccinos was changed. ‘You’ll typically find a heart on top of cappuccinos, but we put a “1,000” instead,’ Ramki recounted. The next big milestone was 1 million fans on Facebook. CCD was one of the first Indian brands to touch that number.”
― Prosenjit Datta, Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Café Coffee Day Founder V. G. Siddhartha