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Disruptions were limited to specific pockets and peak hours, with food delivery seeing brief delays in parts of Gurugram before services normalised by evening, people familiar with the matter told Moneycontrol.

Gig workers call nationwide strike on December 25, 31 over pay, safety and social security

The coordinated walkout during the year-end peak delivery period may disrupt operations across food delivery, quick commerce and e-commerce platforms including Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto, Blinkit, Amazon and Flipkart, as worker groups escalate pressure over payouts, safety risks and account suspensions.

Mumbai customer placed 3,196 food orders on Swiggy in 2025: 'Highest in the country'

Mumbai, consistently among the top three cities across categories, played a defining role in India’s culinary behaviour this year, the Swiggy report stated.

Food delivery platforms double economic footprint in two years, outpacing GDP growth

Sector’s output touched Rs 1.2 trillion in FY24, with jobs and spillover effects rising sharply, NCAER study shows

Swiggy QIP: SBI MF, ICICI Prudential MF, Temasek, GIC, and others drive over 4X demand for Rs 10,000 crore QIP

Temasek, an early backer of Eternal (formerly Zomato), is now looking to bet on Swiggy, sources told Moneycontrol.

Swiggy to use nearly half of Rs 10,000 crore QIP proceeds for quick commerce expansion

As much as Rs 4,475 crore of the proceeds are earmarked for dark stores and warehouses, with another Rs 3,300 crore-plus locked into cloud infrastructure and brand spends over the next three years, regulatory filings showed.

Ola pauses food delivery business, pulls Foods from app

Over the past two years, Ola has wound down or shrunk several experiments outside its mobility business, including used cars and quick commerce pilots Ola Cars and Ola Dash

Swiggy's H1 FY26 losses surge 109% to $178 million on heavy quick-commerce spend, finds key investor Prosus

Despite the rising losses, Prosus – which owns 25 percent of Swiggy – said Despite the rising losses, Prosus – which owns 25 percent of Swiggy – reported strong demand trends for the January–June 2025 period. Swiggy’s customer base grew 35 percent year-on-year to 21.6 million, and gross order value (GOV) rose 43 percent on the back of food-delivery expansion and formats like Bolt

Zomato shares recover early losses, Swiggy jumps 5% as labour code hit to food delivery costs seen limited

Analysts said that a slight increase in delivery fees cannot be ruled out for customers as platforms adapt to the additional statutory outgo following the implementation of India’s new labour codes.

Platform fee helps cushion food delivery discounts on Swiggy

Both existing players, Swiggy and Zomato and new competition, like Rapido, are all "striving to create an opening in what is a thin-margin, high-visibility, and operations intensive business,” the company’s management said.

Swiggy Q2FY26: Growth intact, losses narrowing

With the heavy infrastructure creation largely complete, Swiggy’s focus has shifted to enhancing store productivity, optimising fleet costs, and executing its profitability roadmap.

Swiggy Q2 results: Net loss widens to Rs 1,092 crore, revenue rises 54%

Swiggy’s revenue from operations rose 54.4 percent YoY to Rs 5,561 crore in Q2, up from Rs 3,601 crore a year ago. It had reported a revenue of Rs 4,961 crore in the previous quarter.

Delivery Diaries | Festival without boundaries: how India eats together

Festivals in India are transcending regional boundaries as technology enables people nationwide to order traditional foods, celebrate together, and preserve cultural rituals; turning regional traditions into shared, connected national experiences

GST on delivery charges impacted Zomato’s growth, says Eternal CFO Akshant Goyal

Eternal expects demand recovery in Blinkit from Q3FY26 after GST rate cuts on essentials, but food delivery growth took a short-term hit as the new levy was passed on to customers.

Zomato doesn’t need a separate app, like Swiggy’s Toing and Rapido’s Ownly, to solve for budget-conscious customers: CEO Deepinder Goyal

While analysts have long debated on which approach works best, most companies are now launching seperate apps for different use cases to improve the recall in consumers' minds as cross-selling becomes more and more difficult.

Swiggy to hive off Instamart into separate, wholly owned subsidiary via slump sale

The transaction to be executed at book value, with completion expected post-Q3 FY26, regulatory filings showed.

Swiggy should consider raising over $500 million to support quick commerce ambitions, says JM Financial

These comments from the brokerage firm come at a time when Swiggy faces intensifying pressure on its balance sheet.

Swiggy to launch Toing, a standalone app for affordable food options

Toing, which will go live in Pune first, aims to tap demand from students, young professionals and will be an extension to Swiggy’s Rs 99 store. It will be the seventh app from the house of Swiggy. The aim is to increase its base of transacting users and maintain the company’s pace of growth.

Swiggy, Zomato brace for GST impact on delivery fees; may pass cost to consumers

Industry experts warn that the move could squeeze margins, strain working capital, and trigger higher delivery charges for customers.

Swiggy launches instant gifting platform ‘Giftables’ for curated festive gifting

The service, currently live in Bangalore and expanding to metros including Mumbai and Delhi, appears as a tab within the main Swiggy app rather than a standalone application

Swiggy hikes platform fee for third time in three weeks, taking it to Rs 15

At Swiggy’s present order volumes — estimated at over 2 million orders per day — the higher fee translates to up to Rs 3 crore in daily revenue, compared to around Rs 2.4 crore when the fee was at Rs 12. That’s an additional Rs 54 crore per quarter and Rs 216 crore annually if the rate sustains.

Zomato hikes platform fee to Rs 12 to boost profitability amid festival season rush

The company has also begun testing a Rs 50 'VIP Mode' in select locations that promises faster deliveries, priority riders, and a concierge-style service for select top customers.

Swiggy, Zomato temporarily halt food delivery services in parts of Delhi-NCR amid heavy rains

Users in Gurugram were unable to place or track orders on the two apps during the outage, with both platforms showing restaurants as “temporarily unavailable.”

Swiggy to rejig structure; appoint finance heads for Instamart, food delivery

Once the move to a new model is completed, Swiggy’s organisational structure will be similar to that of Blinkit, its arch-rival. The two VPs of Finance will likely report to CFO Rahul Bothra, sources told Moneycontrol.

Swiggy hikes platform fee to Rs 14 to boost profitability during festive season rush

It is likely that a higher platform fee is an experiment Swiggy is doing for large demand occassions, like festive days, where it needs to pay the fleet more and keep up with operating costs and it reverts to its old structure later. The fee has been hiked from Rs 12 earlier.