Amid a 10-min rush, BigBasket plans one-hour delivery with more products on offerThe service will be launched next month and will be powered through the company’s 62 large-scale dark stores, cofounder and chief executive...
23 Mar, 2022, 02.43 PM IST
BigBasket valuation may touch $4-5 billion as sales riseThe steep rise in BigBasket’s valuation comes at a time when its parent Tata Digital has held early-stage discussions with marquee global i...
11 Mar, 2022, 09.57 AM IST
Tata Digital buys 64% stake in BigBasketChina's Alibaba Group and Actis LLP have now exited the Bengaluru-based company
28 May, 2021, 10.10 PM IST
Tata Group inks $1.2 billion deal to buy majority stake in BigBasketThe Tata-BigBasket deal will see a $200-250 million primary cash infusion in India's largest online grocery. Tata plans to take BigBasket p...
16 Feb, 2021, 11.56 PM IST
BigBasket gets $50 million more from AlibabaWhile the commitment from Alibaba came through pre Covid-19 virus outbreak, the latest infusion comes at a time when BigBasket needs capita...
09 Apr, 2020, 08.18 AM IST
Retail Pooling: Online, offline firms share staff to deliver food, groceriesLeading national and local supermarkets as well as e-grocers like Grofers and BigBasket are going to partner with food delivery apps Swiggy...
29 Mar, 2020, 11.58 PM IST
Despite govt clearance, ecomm cos find it difficult to deliver essentialsAmazon removed all non-essential items from its India marketplace to ensure that the most important needs were met first. The company warne...
25 Mar, 2020, 10.58 AM IST
Zomato smells opportunity in groceries, pings Grofers, BigBasketThis is a major step towards diversification and a move to keep demand high at a time when most businesses are registering a slowdown. Onli...
20 Mar, 2020, 01.36 PM IST
BigBasket in talks to acquire a majority stake in Kwik24eGrocery platform had run a pilot with smart vending machines of firm in Bengaluru
20 Jun, 2018, 03.28 PM IST
With Alibaba on board, BigBasket to go offlineThe Bengaluru-based company is looking to supplement its core online business with offline kiosks that will stock daily groceries, fast-mov...
05 Mar, 2018, 10.32 AM IST
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba wants a stake in BigBasketWith Alibaba joining investee firm Paytm Mall in the talks to pick up a stake in the e-grocer, BigBasket has easily shrugged off Amazon's s...
19 Jul, 2017, 09.49 AM IST
60-day exclusive talks pact - Amazon wants BigBasket in its shopping cartWhile signing the exclusivity clause will mean Amazon is the only strategic contender to buy BigBasket during the two-month period, sources...
16 Jun, 2017, 10.55 AM IST
E-grocer BigBasket starts selling to kiranas and hotelsThe development comes about two months after it launched its specialty food business under the marketplace model.
12 Aug, 2016, 03.39 PM IST
Online grocer BigBasket eyes $1 billion value, raises $50 millionThe fund-raising process currently underway - to propel forays into 50 tier-II cities - is expected to value BigBasket at $1 billion, sourc...
12 Aug, 2015, 04.49 PM IST
Here's how local Kirana stores are reinventing themselves to trump e-grocersDigital balances, computers with inventory management software, and CCTV's for monitoring purposes are a few ways in which kiranas have cha...
09 Jul, 2015, 10.18 AM IST
E-tailers of vegetable & grocery shore up ad spend to get more shoppersPlayers like LocalBanya, BigBasket & Mera Grocer are advertising heavily while e-comm giants Snapdeal, Amazon & Paytm too plan to focus on ...
21 Apr, 2015, 10.36 AM IST
ICICI Venture, Zodius Capital eye stake in BigBasketBigBasket is in talks with private equity investors ICICI Venture & Zodius Capital, among others, to raise about $33 mn in funding, sources...
17 Jun, 2014, 12.05 PM IST