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Popo Global Takes Outside Money for the First Time in Nine Years, at ₹532 Crore

The decision that defines this company is one most Indian restaurant groups make the other way: Popo owns every outlet. Franchising is how Indian food and beverage scales. It is capital-light, someone else signs the leas…

Fit.Zone Is Building One Fitness Membership That Works Across Bengaluru's Independent Centres

In India, the one-membership-many-centres model has belonged to Cult.fit. It is the company that made the idea legible: one plan, many places to train, booked from an app, at a time when a gym membership meant a gym, sin…