The founder-chairman of India’s biggest coffee chain, Cafe Coffee Day, VG Siddhartha, has died, police confirmed after his body was recovered from the Netravati river on the morning of July 30.
Siddhartha set up the Cafe Coffee Day chain in 1996. He went missing on the evening of July 29 and was last seen walking across a bridge near the city of Mangaluru, in India’s southern state of Karnataka.
