Naresh Malhotra , CEO, Cafe Coffee Day has quit the company after six years of service.Malhotra was involved in building Cafe Coffee Day to what it is now from scratch and taking the company to a topline of around Rs 400 crore at the end of FY07. Cafe Coffee Day is hoping to touch a topline of Rs 600 crore in FY08, and is expected to be valued at Rs 3,000 crore. Malhotra said he is exploring options in either retail or private equity. Cafe Coffee Day is the retail arm of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading, a coffee exporter based in Bangalore and run by V Siddhartha, the son-in-law of Maharashtra Governor and senior Congress leader S M Krishna.
