Srinagar, Dec 4: The Cafe Coffee Day, a division of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. today opened a café at Boulevard here.
 The café was inaugurated by M Afzal Parray, President of the associated Chamber of Commerce and Industries-Kashmir (CCIK) and Mushtaq Ahmad Burza, President of Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant Owners Federation (KHAROF) at a glittering function held at the Venue (Hotel Malik Palace).
 People associated with Tourism Trade and members of CCIK were present on the occasion.
Café Coffee Day, to mention, is a chain of coffee shops in India having its headquarters in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka. CCD opened its first cafe in 1996 on Brigade Road in Bangalore, and today has the largest cafe retail chain in India with 1000 cafes in 141 cities.
 Large number of coffee day cafes are located in Bangalore. The cafe chain has had much success riding, and to some extent creating, the cafe culture wave that swept across metropolitan India following strong economic growth resulting in an increase in youth spending power.
 Café Coffee Day sources coffee from 10,500 acres (4,249 ha) of coffee estates, the second largest in Asia, that is owned by a sister concern and from 11,000 small growers. It is one of India’s leading coffee exporters, with clients across the USA, Middle East, Europe and Japan.
 With its roots in Chikmagalur, the home to some of the best Indian coffees, Coffee Day has its business spanning the entire value chain of coffee consumption in India. Its different divisions include: 

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