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Cannot satisfy everybody but conscience is clear, have put best foot forward: Urban Company's Abhiraj Bhal
Urban Company Co-founder Abhiraj Bhal opens up on the hot-button issues such as minimum guarantee and customer sensitisation. Here's edited excerpts.
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Urban Company announces 12-point program to improve partner income
"The urgency with which we are moving is because it is the right thing to do and not under business pressure," Urban Company said.
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Meesho says sales doubled during its first festival offer
Nearly 60 percent of the demand during the Maha Indian Shopping League was driven by Tier-4 and beyond markets. More than 50 percent of the users placed their first online order ever during the sale, Meesho's Utrkrishta Kumar has said
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No one has gone from in-principle approval to final licence in four months like us, says BharatPe's Ashneer Grover
I just went to Rajnish Kumar and told him what my vision was with respect to BharatPe and he loved the way we were adopting digital, Ashneer Grover, co-founder and managing director of BharatPe tells Moneycontrol
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Myntra clocks 8 million orders during its eight-day Big Fashion Festival, announces another sale starting Oct 16
The company claims to have received orders from 5 million customers with 58% being women buyers. It; however, did not disclose the gross merchandise value (GMV) it reported during the sale.
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Will SEBI approve Oyo's IPO? Here's what the experts say
The market regulator may ask SoftBank-backed Oyo to either make additional disclosures or settle the dispute before approving the initial public offering
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Oyo IPO: Filing of 'DRHP' illegal, Zostel tells SEBI; Oyo calls it overreach of HC proceedings
In the 98-page long complaint, Zo has mentioned that the IPO is non-maintainable as Oyo's parent firm Oravel’s capital structure is not final.
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Zomato's Deepinder Goyal: There is a lot of post-IPO pressure
In its last funding round before the IPO, Zomato was valued at $5.4 billion.
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Want to list in 2023 at $10 billion valuation: Good Glamm's Darpan Sanghvi
"Today D2C beauty brands like us are growing and have this amazing opportunity because of all the hard work that Nykaa did over the last 5-7 years ensuring that consumers buy beauty online," says Sanghvi.
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With 10x growth for BNPL products during sales, fintechs gear up for a bumper festive season
Fintechs are hoping for a growth of anywhere between 50 and 150 percent in the usage of buy now, pay later products by customers for festive season purchases. Tier-II and III cities are driving demand across ticket sizes.
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Zo to lodge complaint with SEBI against Oyo IPO as Delhi HC adjourns hearing to October 21
Oyo has in the past condemned Zostel's claims calling them "baseless" and alleging forum hunting at a time when the company is headed for an initial public offering.
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Zo Rooms to invoke ICDR regulations while filing complaint in SEBI, Oyo alleges forum shopping
In an interaction with Moneycontrol, the legal counsel of Zo Rooms for the first time confirmed that the company will file the complaint after the Delhi High Court hears their ongoing dispute.
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Rising demand from small towns driving festive sales, say ecommerce firms
Grooming, mobile protection, home furnishing, household and women ethnic contemporary categories stood out as Top categories for marketplace sellers.
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Decoding Oyo's IPO documents in five charts
The IPO comprises 83 percent of fresh issue worth Rs 7,000 crore and 17 percent offer for sale worth Rs 1,430 crore.
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OYO's losses shrink to Rs 3,929 crore during FY21
OYO last published its annual result in 2019 when its loss stood at Rs 2,525 crore and total income Rs 6,518 crore.
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Most customers will make festive purchases from places offering home delivery: LocalCircles
This festive season, 52% of households that will shop are likely to do so by ordering online and via local stores for home delivery.
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Oyo files draft papers for $1.2 billion public offering
The company which was last valued at $9 billion is targeting a valuation of around $12-14 billion through this IPO.
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Innoven Capital announces first close of new fund at Rs 740 crore
The fund has a target corpus of Rs 1,000 crore with a greenshoe option to raise an additional Rs 1,000 crore.
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No intention of stopping Oyo's IPO, just want our shares preserved: Zo Rooms; court adjourns hearing to Oct 7
The issues between the two companies date back to 2015 when Zo Rooms, the budget hotel accommodation chain owned by Zostel Hospitality, was shut down after the merger talks between the two, which could have resulted in Zo Rooms getting a seven percent stake in Oyo, failed.
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IPO: Zo asks Delhi High Court to protect its rights; Oyo alleges forum shopping
The issues between the two companies date back to 2015 when Zo Rooms, the budget hotel accommodation chain owned by Zostel Hospitality, was shut down after merger talks between the two companies failed.
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Interview | Saurabh Kumar wants to create a Grofers in the online retail space
Saurabh Kumar believes that the e-commerce sector will continue to reshape and see more disruption as the current ecosystem cannot keep up with customer expectations.
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Exclusive: Grofers' Saurabh Kumar launches e-commerce firm Warpli; to compete with Amazon, Flipkart
Kumar has launched his new venture called Warpli, a full fledged online marketplace which will compete with incumbents such as Amazon and Flipkart in the hyper competitive market.
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Fear of competition in pandemic-struck market forces Amazon, Flipkart to launch festive sale during Shradh
For the first time ever, the two companies have gone back to drawing boards to revise their announced dates fearing early competition from the rival.
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OYO IPO to have $300 million secondary component, Ritesh Agarwal unlikely to offload
OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal has over 30 percent stake in the company.
