Brands
Traworld launches new campaign featuring Sonam Kapoor
MUMBAI: Traworld, the premium luggage brand from the house of High Spirit Commercial Ventures, has launched its ad-campaign ‘The World is Your Ramp’ featuring Sonam K Ahuja, the much adored fashion icon from the Indian film industry as the face of their brand.
The ad campaign reflects the positioning of the brand as a fashion brand rather than a plain luggage brand. The campaign is to tap the consumers who are regular travellers for many occasions and also look for fashionable luggage bags.
Traworld’s bags look and feel is more like a fashion accessory than just a bag.
Traworld is a premium and modern luggage brand for premium and fashion conscious travellers who love to use travel luggage for their varied needs. The brand offers a range of luggage bags which are stylish, classy, yet sturdy and value for money, keeping in mind the need and fashion sensibilities of its customers.
The luggage bags range from casual to business travel segments and come in different sizes as per the consumer’s requirements. The product is lightweight, shock resistant and water resistant with unique locking system to keep the luggage secured. Mobility ranges from four wheeled to eight wheeled, so that your luggage travels at your pace and is easy to carry.
The entire advertisement strategy is being conceptualised and driven by Makani Creatives, that is positioning the brand for premium customers reflecting upon their needs as per their lifestyle and choices. To its credit it has worked with various iconic brands like Pepe, Red Tape, Panasonic, Metro Shoes, Mochi Footwear, Channel, Mahindra Logistics, Lavie, Killer Jeans and several others.
The brand is focussing on print ad-campaign across national and other regional dailies spread across 10 leading cities reaching out to consumers across India. Besides very strong BTL activities have been planned with all the MBOs across India, to deliver the essence of the brand and enhance visibility. After looking at the success of the campaign, the company may also look at TV campaign in the years to come.
Traworld founder and managing director Tushar Jain says, “We are delighted to sign Sonam K Ahuja as a brand ambassador for our brand Traworld as she is the true embodiment of what the brand stands for. We see a deep connect with regards to her style and the elite urban population who can easily relate to her as their fashion icon. We couldn’t have had a better choice to represent the brand than her and Makani Creatives also delivered phenomenally well on brand positioning and marketing with their creative acumen.”
He further added that, “We have taken a woman as our brand ambassador, which is first of its kind for an Indian luggage brand to do so. The fashion goes well with women folk and this would give us edge over others in the industry.”
Sonam Kapoor Ahuja adds, “I am super excited to endorse premium luggage brand Traworld. The brand goes well with my style statements and is in tune with my choice of fashionable and stylish bags. Since I am a frequent traveller and I literally live out of my luggage, I am cautious of the brand I would carry as it’s just not a brand but something that defines my personality. I can personally relate to the brand as it strongly relates to fashion. The brand will surely win the hearts of people who are always on a lookout for trendy and stylish bags while they are travelling”,
Traworld is available in all leading retail stores across the country. It is also available in general trade through large distribution network of 3500 MBOs spread across seven States. The brand is also available on online platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Amazon, Snapdeal, Indiamart and Paytm Mall to name a few. With our current association we are sure we will be able to further enhance the brand visibility across India.
Traworld is a luggage brand for the premium travellers. Traworld brand has achieved sizable business and has presence across all major metros and other major cities in the country. The brand presence on the online platforms is very strong. The addressable market for Traworld luggage brand is Rs 6,000 core.
The brand is owned by High Spirit Commercial Ventures, leading luggage bags manufacturer and exporter. The company has registered revenues of Rs. 250 crore for the year ended 31 March, 2018. The company also owns leading brands like Priority, Humpty Dumpty and Hashtag to cater to multiple segments in the backpack segment.
The company has offices in 10 major cities of the country and has a distribution network of 10,000 points of sale spread across India. The company is the sole licensee of all top cartoon characters.
Brands
Dunkin’ Donuts to exit India as Jubilant FoodWorks ends 15-year franchise deal
The quick service restaurant giant is ending a 15-year franchise partnership with the American doughnut chain, even as it renews its Domino’s agreement for another 15 years
NOIDA: Dunkin’ is done in India. Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the country’s leading quick service restaurant operator, has decided not to renew its franchise agreement with the American coffee and doughnut chain, and will wind down its Indian stores in a phased manner before December 31, 2026, bringing a 15-year partnership to a quiet, loss-laden close.
The decision, approved by JFL’s board on March 30, 2026, ends a relationship that began with a Multiple Unit Development Franchise Agreement signed on February 24, 2011. JFL will now evaluate and undertake what it described in a regulatory filing as the “rationalisation and/or cessation of certain operations and/or sale, transfer or disposal of assets and/or assignment or transfer of franchise rights,” all in consultation with Dunkin’s brand owners and strictly within the terms of the original agreement.
The numbers tell the story bluntly. In the financial year 2024-25, Dunkin’ India posted a revenue of Rs 37 crore against a loss of Rs 19 crore — a haemorrhage that was always going to test the patience of a parent company recording revenues of Rs 6,104 crore and a profit of Rs 194 crore in the same period. Doughnuts, it turns out, were never going to move the needle.
The contrast with JFL’s handling of its other marquee franchise could hardly be sharper. Even as it walks away from Dunkin’, the company has just doubled down on Domino’s, signing a fresh Master Franchise Agreement on March 31, 2026, granting it exclusive rights to develop and operate Domino’s Pizza stores in India for 15 years, with an option to renew for a further 10.
JFL, incorporated in 1995 and promoted by the Bharatia family, operates a network of more than 3,500 stores across six markets — India, Turkey, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Its portfolio includes Domino’s and Popeyes on the global side, and two home-grown brands: Hong’s Kitchen and COFFY, a café brand in Turkey.
For Dunkin’, India was always a stretch. The brand never quite cracked the cultural code in a market where filter coffee and chai command fierce loyalty and where the doughnut remains, at best, an occasional indulgence rather than a daily habit. Fifteen years, mounting losses and a parent with better things to spend its capital on was always going to be a difficult equation to solve.
The doughnut has had its last day. The pizza, however, is staying.
