Hari Menon

BigBasket cofounder & CEO Hari Menon said the company has touched 15,000 deliveries a day for its quick commerce service within two weeks of its launch.

Hari Menon, founder and CEO, BigBasket told TOI they were looking to scale up their offline kiosks into thousands of such installations across the country as it steps on the gas for aggressive growth this year.

New Delhi, May 9 () Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday said it has appointed Hari Menon as the Country Director for India, effective from May 24.

Big Basket's private brands form 33% of the total sale. Fresho for fruits and vegetables, Happy Chef for the ready to cook, gourmet segment, Royal and Popular for staples and recently, under the Tasties brand – BB sells coffee and snacks.

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Tata Group-owned e-grocery BigBasket has entered offline retail with the opening of its first brick-and-mortar store in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The store, branded Fresho, sells fresh fruits and vegetables.

While e-commerce firms have got caught in their own processes which require a lot of manpower for packaging and delivery, the friendly neighbourhood kiranawalla has come to the rescue of consumers. The local kirana store owners are ensuring consumers get their daily essentials by maintaining supply chains during the lockdown with the help of rickshaw pullers.

BigBasket, owned by Tata, will merge its BBdaily subscription service into its main app as part of a shift towards a quick commerce model. CEO Hari Menon disclosed that this change aims to eliminate separate apps and slotted deliveries. The merger is planned for the coming months.

Online grocer Bigbasket has crossed an annualised gross sale runrate of $1 billion for the first time in May, riding on strong consumer demand for grocery and essentials due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lack of warehousing and concerns over the attitude of blue-collared workers delayed the arrival of India's largest online grocery store in Kolkata.

When Hari Menon first launched an online grocery operation under the Fabmart.com umbrella in 2000, it was an idea before its time.

BigBasket co-founder & CEO Hari Menon said the company has touched 15,000 deliveries a day for its quick commerce service within two weeks of its launch.

Bihar government on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation), as part of which the Foundation will provide technical support to select government departments for the next five years, effective April 2021 to March 2026.

Even as police authorities moved across top metros like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru to issue “curfew passes” to delivery agents of e-commerce services, the companies are still facing issues in taking new orders and fulfilling existing backlog. A large number of the migrant delivery workforce is afraid of venturing out or has fled to their hometowns fearing police action.

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Tata Group will buy a 68% stake in online grocery startup BigBasket for about Rs 9,500 crore ($1.31 billion), news agency ET Now said on Tuesday, citing sources.

The new iPhone 16 is now available in India with quick commerce platforms like BigBasket, Blinkit, and Zepto offering home delivery within 10 minutes. BigBasket partners with Croma for this launch, while Zepto and Blinkit offer additional discounts on select credit cards. These platforms have expanded from groceries to high-end gadgets.

Chief economic adviser to the government of India, Arvind Subramanian on Sunday called Brexit a major shock, in the history of the world after the Cold War. He called it a setback for the international citizen, globalization and that what was a great social experiment was now being reversed. As for its economic repercussions on India, he said the country had strong fundamentals to withstand the negative fallout.