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Transaction Opportunity
• Voila F9 Gourmet LLP ("Voila" or the "Company") is India's leading professional food services company focused on the premium catering
segment with 25+ years of F&B experience
• Founded by a group of highly pedigreed entrepreneurs with a demonstrated track record of creating successful food businesses
• Since inception in 2006 by putting up a café counter in Google's first office in India, Voila has emerged as an integrated food services
platform focused on institutional catering across segments of Contract Catering, Banqueting and Social Events serving over 500,000
meals/ month
• Setting up India's largest non flight catering commercial kitchen over 55,000 square feet in Hyderabad with a capacity of 50,000 meals/
day
• Progressively scaling operations with firm visibility of FY18 revenues of INR 100 Crores with EBIDTA margins of 22%, growing from
FY17(Prov.) revenues of INR 64 Crores and EBIDTA margins of 18%
• Having established itself as the 'Gateway to the premium contract catering market of Hyderabad', Voila is considering strategic equity
partnerships with global catering businesses with a clear vision to emerge as one of India's largest contract catering businesses by 2022
Platform opportunity for strategic partnership with a premium catering player built on marque institutional
relationships
• Integrated food services company focused on institutional catering across segments of Contract Catering,
Integrated Platform Banqueting and Social Events
• India's largest non flight commercial kitchen with a capacity of 50,000 meals/ day
• Partnership approach with marquee global institutions, demonstrated in long standing relationships, which
Premium Positioning enables premium pricing
• Gateway to the premium contract catering market of Hyderabad
• Substantial majority of forecasted revenues over the next 5 years driven by existing clients
Highly predictable
• Firm visibility on committed revenues from top clients in Contract Catering through new space additions
growth trajectory
• Big boost to Banqueting revenues expected with addition of premium venues like Boulder Hills and Auspacious
• Highly complimentary team of seasoned entrepreneurs with 25+ years of F&B experience
Pedigreed
Entrepreneurs • Committed to leveraging competencies developed over the last decade with a clear vision to be India's largest
institutional catering business over the next 5 years
Sagar Ratna
Rajashree Caterer INR 50-250
Local presence
(Limited regional cuisine offerings)
Local Presence
(Small Businesses & SME's)
Voila has emerged as a leader in the premium corporate catering and banqueting segments in Tier 1 market
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Market Overview
Target Market: Presence of MNCs and Global Corporates
• Over the last decade, several of the world’s leading companies
7,500 35%
have established significant operational presence in India,
including corporate offices and development / R&D centers 6,000 29% 28%
4,500 21%
• In line with their worldwide policies, these companies now 17%
include catered food as a core part of their employee value 3,000 14%
4,700
proposition (EVP) and retention 1,500 3,100 7%
Recent Entry/ Expansion Activity: Target Markets Market Size Sectors/ Industries
Hyderabad 250+ IT, BFS, Pharma
2016: 8 lakh sq. ft. facility in Hyderabad
Bangalore 600+ IT, Healthcare, BFS
NCR 1,000+ Consumer, Manufacturing
2016: new facilities in Mumbai & Gurgaon
Pune 250+ IT, Auto
Mumbai 800+ BFS
2016: Expanded presence in Bangalore &
Gurgaon (added ~5 lakh sq. ft.) Chennai 400+ IT, BFS, Auto
As India has emerged as a leading global economy housing some of the world’s largest companies in key tier 1 cities such as
Hyderabad, catering has also evolved in tandem to become a key component of employee value proposition, and this trend is
expected to develop further with growing influx of multi nationals to India
2015 Corporate & Social Consulting – facility, process, & menu design Google, Facebook, Uber,
Institutional catered meals Deloitte, Qualcomm, Quislex,
Premium Conference & Convention (Turnkey) Arcesium, DE Shaw
Premium Social & Public Events (Turnkey)
2008 Corporate, Healthcare, Institutional catered meals, consumer brands, Costa Coffee, Google, & 450
Education, & Offshore retail outlets other clients
1966 Corporate Institutional catered meals, vending Renault Nissan, P&G, Sanofi,
Unilever, AstraZeneca,
Deloitte, Tetra Pak
1983 Industrial Institutional catered meals Ashok Leyland, Larsen &
Toubro, Panasonic, VIT
University
1976 Airline, Corporate Packaged Meals, Corporate Gifting, Institutional Tata Starbucks, Vistara, Air
catered meals India, Citibank, Barclays,
American International
School, BP, Accenture,
Barclays, Cipla, Major Airlines
Voila has established itself as the F&B partner of choice in India for some of the world’s leading companies and
events through its integrated approach to providing F&B services, and premium positioning
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3 Company Overview
Combining capabilities of seasoned F&B entrepreneurs to build a differentiated contract catering business in the
premium segment
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The Team
SANJAY BATHLA SHANKAR KRIS ARVIND KAILA VIJAY AMRITRAJ VAMSI JOGANPALLY
- PARTNER -PARTNER –PARTNER – PARTNER & CEO – PARTNER
• Well known hotelier • A veteran Chef • An Entrepreneur with • MBA from SIBM, Pune • Entrepreneur with
and restaurateur turned entrepreneur interests in F&B and • 2 decades experience in interests in Education
• Created brands like • Worked with some of Real Estate, advertising, sales and and Hospitality Sectors
Bottles & Chimneys, the most prolific 5 • Part of Core task force marketing • Secretary - Bhaskar
and Over The Moon star chains across of the ITDC, managed • Ran pan-India businesses Medical College and
• Diversified into India, Nepal, and the the exclusive for companies like J Walter Member - JBIT
service apartments UAE Hyderabad House in Thompson, Max New • Director at Arka
and hotels businesses • Created brands like New Delhi York Life & AEGON Life Hotels, currently
• Financial brain of Fusion 9, Deli9, and • Helped build successful • Entrusted responsibility of setting up a 4 star hotel
Voila F9 Gourmet Deli9 Bistro brands like Deli9 professionalizing • Responsible for
Bistro, Fusion Bistro, operations and scaling the Strategy and Business
Fusion 9, and Deli 9 business. Alliances
Founding team possess very strong capabilities & extensive experience in managing highly successful F&B
operations
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Business segments - Overview
Public Events
Commissary
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Client profile
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Key Milestones
Acquired 3
new accounts Expanded Google, Facebook,
& Uber
Clients:
Acquired Ikea & Indus
Google
Acquired
Facebook Clients:
Acquired Arcesium
DE Shaw Clients: DE Shaw Google Uber
Acquired
Facebook Clients: Google Arcesium Facebook Quislex
Clients: Google Facebook Qualcomm DE Shaw Ikea
Entered institutional
Google Facebook DE Shaw Uber Arcesium Indus Schools
catering through its
first account, Google Facebook DE Shaw Arcesium Quislex Qualcomm
Fusion Hospitality began operations Voila Cuisine started operations Voila Cuisine and Fusion Began commissary
in F&B in institutional catering brought together their operations under
Founders: Shankar Krishnamurthy Founders: Sanjay Bathla, Vamsi institutional catering Goodie Jar brand
and Arvind Kaila Joganpally and Vijay Amritraj business under Voila F9
Voila has grown together with its clients, where its accounts have continued since its clients’ initial footsteps in
the Indian market
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Key Infrastructure & Capabilities – Centralized Kitchen
• India’s largest non flight catering commercial kitchen – 55,000 sq.
ft.
• Temperature controlled refrigeration and freezer units
• Specialized zones for hot kitchens, stores, confectionery, butchery,
quality control, dispatch etc.
• STP plant, water treatment plant, fire hydrant zones
• HACCP, ISO 20000:2005 and FSSAI compliance Exterior Cooking Area
• 24*7 operations with 500+ kitchen staff
• Production capacity of 50,000 meals per day
• Future planned kitchens:
• Q4 FY18: c. 20,000 sq. ft. – facility in Bangalore
• Q1 FY19: c. 10,000 sq. ft. – facility in Delhi/ NCR
• Own and operate a fleet of over 20 trucks for transporting finished
and semi finished goods Sorting Segregated Cold Storage
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'Unique Selling Proposition'
Voila’s unique capabilities in terms of production and delivery of high quality gourmet meals at significant
volumes enables it to service leading multinational clients on a premium, company paid model
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Growth strategy
Growth strategy based on building a leadership position in premium corporate catering market in India
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4 Segmental & Revenue Overview
Voila has established strong connects with leading corporates in India. High quality standards enable securing
and retaining premium clients that provide high margin, growing revenue streams
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Banqueting & Events
• Voila undertakes some of the largest banqueting and catering for corporate events, conventions, conferences, and public events
• Secured partnerships with some of the most premium and exclusive venues in Hyderabad with significant footfalls:
• Ten year exclusive contract to serve at two leading venues – Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club and Auspacious
Conventions (40,000 sq. ft. banqueting space)
• Hitex Conventions - one of the largest convention spaces in India with up to 700 corporate events a year (in process)
• Voila is the F&B partner for some of the most well recognized public events in India:
• Global Citizen India Music Festival, Mumbai, November 2016: Catered to 85,000+ people in one day at one of the largest
concerts in the country
• Selected to cater to the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi at the DGP conference held at the National Police Academy in
Hyderabad
Number of Events YTD 17 Pax YTD 17 Revenue in INR Cr YTD 17
800 711 100,000 4.00
83,857 3.83
80,000 3.80
600
60,000 3.60
374
400 3.40
40,000 35,026 3.40 3.34
200
20,000 3.20
- - 3.00
Other Corporate Social Banqueting Other Corporate Social Banqueting Other Corporate Social Banqueting Public
Voila’s banqueting prowess combined with its tie ups with leading venues enable it to gain both high end
visibility and premium corporate footfalls, and cementing its position as a premium F&B partner for corporates
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Banqueting & Events – Sub - Segments
• Undertakes some of the largest • Complete, 360 - degree solutions • Hyderabad – MICE Capital of
banqueting projects for public as well as India
• Site layout consulting
private functions and events
• Point of sale and cash management • HITEX India’s largest Exhibition
• Ten year contract to serve at two leading Centre – preferred F&B provider
venues within Hyderabad – Boulder • Backstage and Artiste Catering
• Dedicated team of Event experts
Hills Golf Club, & Auspacious • Alcohol management and bar concepts and F&B professionals
• Other key engagements under process – • Custom restaurants concepts • From simple food stalls, lavish
Hitex Conventions (one of the largest
• Third party vendor management buffets, to complex 24*7 food
convention centres in India)
courts – Voila has capabilities to
• Events include Global CEO visits, • Voila holds the distinction of managing F&B
execute all formats
Brand activations, Luxury Car launches, for India’s largest concert event – the Global
Store openings etc. Citizens Conference, where Voila catered to
85,000+ fans
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Thank You
M. R. Vikram
Mobile: +91 9348822167
Email: vikram@anandam.in