Valuation to remain flat as competition heats up in grocery e-tailing sector

‘Specialist players like Grofers and Bigbasket.com will be impacted’

India's online grocery market could top $3 billion in sales this year, a 76% increase over last year, as the spike in demand for home deliv...

Grocery space, once considered the toughest segment to enter, is changing. While private labels are paying off for startups, Kiranas are no...

Food-delivery apps Zomato and Swiggy, too, have doubled down on the grocery category since it began seeing an uptick in demand. While Swigg...

E-commerce companies have been facing a major manpower shortage, as migrant workers have returned to their native places, amid the virus ou...

Firms are operating at 60-70% capacity due to manpower shortage and supply constraints.

The action against grocery e-tailers such as Grofers, BigBasket and e-pharmacy player 1mg and their on-ground staff, apart from larger firm...

Unable to handle a sudden surge in demand, India's two largest grocery players, BigBasket and Grofers, have started delaying orders by days...

This is a major step towards diversification and a move to keep demand high at a time when most businesses are registering a slowdown. Onli...

Data shows that most of Grofers’ orders are coming from less-affluent neighbhourhoods across the country.

The investment comes at a time when competition in the the online grocery delivery space is heating up, with well capitalised firms such as...

SoftBank’s move to further invest in Grofers also puts on hold the on-again, off-again merger talks it has held with bigger rival, Alibaba-...

BigBasket is seeking a pre-money valuation of at least $550 million. The company was valued at about $450 million when it raised capital in...

Sources in the know said talks between the two parties, which started in November last year, will be brought up during BigBasket's board me...

The development comes about two months after it launched its specialty food business under the marketplace model.

BigBasket’s valuation was pegged at Rs 2,100 crore, or about $320 million, ahead of the transaction, show filings submitted to the ministry...