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  • Australia’s The Coffee Club to make India debut in 2023

    Australia’s The Coffee Club to make India debut in 2023

    Australian coffee chain The Coffee Club will debut in India next year with new franchise partner CK Israni Group.

    New Delhi-based conglomerate CK Israni said it will start opening stores next year and is targeting 100 The Coffee Club outlets in India by 2028.

    “We are still figuring out whether it is going to start from Delhi or Mumbai. The Coffee Club is a mass market brand, and we will start rolling out stores from next year,” said Chandni Nath Israni, Co-Founder, CK Israni.

    India has become a key growth market for many international coffee chains seeking to capture a share of increasing consumer demand for premium coffee and café experiences.

    Starbucks and Costa Coffee have both achieved further outlet growth in India this year while Dunkin’ has commenced revamping its coffee menu and store design to attract younger consumers.

    Additionally, Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons will invest $37m to open 120 stores in the next three years with Indian licensee AG Café.

    The Coffee Club opened its first store in Brisbane in 1989 and now operates over 400 stores across nine markets, including New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

    The Coffee Club is owned by Australian retail food brand franchisor Minor DKL Food Group, which also operates the Australian roaster and café brand Coffee Hit and specialty coffee roaster Veneziano.

    CK Israni Group has predominantly operated in the real estate and infrastructure industries. However, the company also signed a franchise agreement with French bakery and confectionery brand Laduree in November 2020. It currently operates two Laduree outlets, with plans to reach 20 by 2025.

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  • The Coffee Club opens first store in Vietnam

    The Coffee Club opens first store in Vietnam

    The first The Coffee Club Vietnam store has opened, marking the Australian-founded chain’s 10th international market.

    Minor International subsidiary Minor Food signed up Vietnam Investment Group (VI Group) as its local partner in The Coffee Club Vietnam last October.

    Paul Kenny, CEO of Minor Food said the chain will provide a coffeehouse-style experience with an all-day menu following the Australian format. Together with Western dishes, the Vietnam store’s menu also includes Asian cuisine.

    “The Coffee Club offers a distinctive restaurant experience with great selections of food and beverages menus, excellent coffee and a welcoming relaxed atmosphere enriching the contemporary lifestyles of the Vietnamese consumers,” said David Do, VI Group MD.

    Since opening its doors in Brisbane in 1989, The Coffee Club has become Australia’s largest home-grown cafe group serving approximately 40 million customers in more than 400 stores.

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  • BreadTalk buys out joint venture partner in Thailand

    BreadTalk buys out joint venture partner in Thailand

    Minor Group has sold its half share in BreadTalk Thailand to the bakery’s Singapore-listed owner. According to the Straits Times, BreadTalk paid US$5.15 million for the stake, which Minor Group is expected to use to expand its other food and beverage brands in the kingdom, including The Coffee Club.   The BreadTalk Thailand joint venture, called BTM Thailand, was set up in 2014.

    Minor Group’s other brands in Southeast Asia include ThaiExpress, Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe, Swensens and the Pizza Restaurant Company.

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  • Minor takes The Coffee Club to Vietnam

    Minor takes The Coffee Club to Vietnam

    Vietnam Investment Group (VI Group) has signed a master franchise agreement with Minor International’s subsidiary Minor Food to bring The Coffee Club to Vietnam. Under the joint venture, VI and Minor plan to open 100 The Coffee Club outlets over the next five years.

    “With the flourishing coffee market and favourable macro trend, we are very optimistic about the opportunity to strengthen our presence in the country and grow The Coffee Club brand nationwide,” said Paul Kenny, CEO at Minor Food.

    According to Chaiyapat Paitoon, deputy chief financial officer and strategic planning for Minor International, restaurant businesses show strong potential in Vietnam because people “want a wider variety of cuisines, paving the way for foreign players to come in and offer different choices in addition to traditional, local and street food”.

    “The Coffee Club offers a distinctive restaurant experience with great selections of food and beverages menus, excellent coffee and a welcoming relaxed atmosphere enriching the contemporary lifestyles of the Vietnamese consumers,” said David Do, VI Group MD.

    The joint venture plans to open 20 The Coffee Club restaurants next year.

    Minor is no stranger to Vietnam’s F&B market. It first established its restaurant footprint there  in 2009 launching three casual-dining restaurant brands, including The Pizza Company, Swensen’s and Thai Express. It now has 83 outlets nationwide across those brands, 60 of them under the Pizza Company banner.

    Apart from The Coffee Club, Minor is also looking for opportunities to launch other restaurant brands into Vietnam at a later stage.

    Opening its first store in Brisbane in 1989, The Coffee Club claims to have become Australia’s largest home-grown cafe group with more than 400 outlets throughout Australia, New Zealand, the Maldives, Seychelles, Thailand, Indonesia and the UAE. Thai-headquartered Minor International owns 50 per cent of The Coffee Club.

    Analysis: Fit for Vietnam?

    Entering Vietnam market means The Coffee Club is competing with fast-growing coffee chains like local operators The Coffee House and Highlands, and international chains such as Starbucks and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, the latter of which has struggled to gain critical mass in the market and several months ago closed its flagship in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Fellow Australian restaurant chain The Hog’s Breath Cafe also gave up last year after about seven years in the market.

    If The Coffee Club’s Vietnam outlets follow the Australian format, they will focus more on lunches, brunches and dinners than coffee as their name might suggest, although it does serve coffee on site and for takeaway.

    The company faces challenges in sourcing ingredients, many of which will come from offshore, and finding real estate at an affordable price. Those two factors combined will create price pressure for the brand, despite the affordability of labour in Vietnam.

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  • Australia’s The Coffee Club opens in UAE

    Australia’s The Coffee Club opens in UAE

    Australia’s homegrown cafe group, The coffee Club, has officially opened its first outlet in the United Arab Emirates.

    The UAE outlet, is being operated by Liwa Minor Food and Beverages, the joint venture company of local operator Al Nasser Holdings and Thai public listed company Minor Food Group.

    Abdulla Nasser Al Mansoori, Chairman of the Board at Al Nasser Holdings, said they expect to expand to other markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) within the next three years.

    Another eight cafes and restaurants are in the pipeline in the UAE while it is expected to reach 25 cafes in the country within the next 4 years.

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