Big Apple Donuts and Coffee

Big Apple Donuts and Coffee is a Malaysian café retail brand specializing in doughnuts, coffee, and related casual refreshment offerings. The business operates through Big Apple Worldwide Holdings Sdn Bhd and trades under the Big Apple Donuts & Coffee name. It opened its first outlet in 2007 at The Curve shopping centre in Mutiara Damansara, Selangor, establishing a mall-based format focused on freshly presented doughnuts and café beverages. The brand's core proposition combines an accessible doughnut assortment with coffee-shop service in a retail environment. Its product identity is centered on doughnuts rather than on a broad full-service restaurant menu, placing it within the quick-service and casual café segment. Shopping-centre locations provide the brand with visibility and access to customers seeking snacks, takeaway items, desserts, and drinks. Big Apple expanded its presence across Malaysia, with outlets reported in all Malaysian states and federal territories except Penang, Perlis, and Labuan. The brand has also operated in Cambodia, including locations throughout Phnom Penh. This regional footprint gives it a position as a Southeast Asian doughnut and coffee chain rather than a single-city bakery concept. Corporate information identifies Big Apple Worldwide Holdings Sdn Bhd as the operating company. The brand is described as a subsidiary of Japan-based Duskin Co., Ltd., while ownership and management are associated with Big Apple Inter-Asia. No public information in the supplied references establishes a founder, a precise headquarters address, a listed-company status, or current executive leadership. Big Apple Donuts and Coffee remains defined by its doughnut-led café format and regional retail network. Its principal competitive context is the market for branded doughnut shops, coffeehouses, mall cafés, and convenient sweet snacks. Detailed information about individual product launches, financial performance, advertising campaigns, executive appointments, and store counts is not established by the available reference material.

Big Apple Donuts and Coffee began trading in 2007, when its first outlet opened at The Curve in Mutiara Damansara, Selangor. The opening established the brand's initial retail model: a doughnut-focused café operating in a major shopping-centre setting. Rather than positioning itself solely as a bakery or packaged-food manufacturer, Big Apple combined doughnut retail with coffee and café service. The business operates through Big Apple Worldwide Holdings Sdn Bhd and uses Big Apple Donuts & Coffee as its consumer-facing name. The supplied reference material identifies the company as a subsidiary of Duskin Co., Ltd., a Japanese company with interests in food-service and related consumer businesses. It also states that the business is owned and managed by Big Apple Inter-Asia. The available information does not provide a detailed account of the corporate transaction or the dates of these ownership arrangements. Following its initial launch in Selangor, Big Apple developed a broad Malaysian outlet network. Its locations have been reported across all Malaysian states and federal territories other than Penang, Perlis, and Labuan. The expansion indicates a strategy of using a recognizable chain format to reach customers in multiple urban and regional retail markets. Shopping-centre placement has remained an important part of the brand's public identity, supporting dine-in, takeaway, and impulse-snacking occasions. The brand also expanded beyond Malaysia into Cambodia, with locations reported throughout Phnom Penh. This was the principal international market identified in the available reference material. No additional country expansion, store-count history, or chronology of Cambodian entry is provided. Across its history, the brand has remained associated with doughnuts and coffee. The reference material does not document a change in core positioning, a major product-generation transition, a public listing, a bankruptcy, or a major merger announcement. It also does not provide verified information on founders, named executives, revenue, profits, store counts by year, advertising campaigns, or recent strategic decisions. Accordingly, the documented history is strongest on the brand's 2007 launch, corporate identity, Malaysian network, and presence in Phnom Penh.

• 2007

  First outlet opens at The Curve

  [1]Big Apple Donuts and Coffeeen.wikipedia.org

  Big Apple Donuts and Coffee opened its first outlet at The Curve in Mutiara Damansara, Selangor, and began trading as a doughnut and coffee café retailer.

• Expansion across Malaysia

  [1]Big Apple Donuts and Coffeeen.wikipedia.org

  The chain expanded to locations across Malaysian states and federal territories, with Penang, Perlis, and Labuan identified as exceptions in the cited reference.

• Presence established in Phnom Penh

  [1]Big Apple Donuts and Coffeeen.wikipedia.org

  Big Apple developed an overseas presence in Cambodia, with locations reported throughout Phnom Penh.

A doughnut-led casual café and quick-service snack brand serving Malaysian and selected Cambodian retail markets, particularly through shopping-centre outlets.

• Bakery and dessert · 2007

  Doughnuts

  Doughnuts are the brand's defining product category and the main reason for its specialist retail identity. They form the center of the chain's café proposition and are suited to individual snacking, takeaway purchases, and sharing. The available references do not specify the full flavor range, recipes, seasonal variants, or packaging formats.

• Beverages · 2007

  Coffee

  Coffee complements the doughnut-led offer and supports the brand's positioning as a café retailer rather than a doughnut-only kiosk. It provides a beverage pairing for dine-in and takeaway occasions. The supplied sources do not identify specific coffee beans, preparation methods, menu sizes, or signature drinks.

1. 1Big Apple Donuts and Coffeeen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Big Apple Donuts and Coffee official websitebigappledonuts.com