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Background of the company

 Big Basket is one of the largest online grocery super market in India. It was founded in 2011 by
Hari Menon, VS Sudhakar, V S Ramesh, Vipul Parekh and Abhinay choudari. It has its
headquarters in Bengaluru. It operates in more than 30 cities in India.

Company profile
 In March 2019, BigBasket raised US$150 million in investment from Mirae Asset, Alibaba
Group and CDC Group giving the company a valuation of over US$1 billion.

 In March 2020, they acquired micro-delivery firm, DailyNinja. As of June 2020, it was reported
that BigBasket had hit the annualized gross sale run rate of US$1 billion and began selling about
18,000 products from over 300,000 orders received daily.

 In February 2021, the Tata Group acquired a 64.3% stake in BigBasket for around ₹9,500
crore (US$1.2 billion).

Type of the company

BIG BASKET ENTERPRISES PRIVATE LIMITED is a Private incorporated on 27-11-2014. It is
classified as a Non-govt company and is registered at RoC-Pune. Their state of registration is
Maharashtra. Its authorized share capital is 100000.00 and its paid-up capital is 100000.00

. Product and services

Big basket offers variety of products ranging from fresh fruits, vegetables, Food grains, oil, masala,
packaged snacks, beverages, household supplies, healthcare products. It has more than 20000 products
and 1000 brands in its catalo

Area of operations

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 Big Basket has made everything easy through its online grocery shopping service.It facilitates the
shopping of grocery products from the comforts of customers’ places. The channelization of Big
Basket works by buying vegetables, farm products, fruits and meats and manages these stocks
in a warehouse.

Ownership Management of the company

 Bengaluru-based BigBasket was founded by V S Sudhakar, Hari Menon, Vipul Parekh, Abhinay
Choudhari, and V S Ramesh. The founders had their first brush with e-commerce back in 1999
when they launched an online store, Fabmart.com, to sell books, toys, and glossaryonline.

Number of employees in the company

Annual sales and revenue

Revenue from the past three years

 Big basket B2B arm records 73%

 Growth in his oparating revenue RS 6,558 crore

 Bigbasket indian revenue is 38.2 billion

Project of the next 3years

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 The company will significantly scale up offline stores from 90 to 695 in a year to reach out to 100
per cent of its customer base. ‘’The expected GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) for financial year
2022-23 is Rs 13,000 crore,’’

Annual sales turnover

 Bigbasket’s B2b arm recorded a 73% growth in its operating revenue to Rs 6,558 crore in FY21
from Rs 3,794 crore in the previous fiscal year (FY20). Revenue from the wholesale of grocery
and other household products constitutes 97.5% of the company’s total operating revenue.

Awards and recognition

 The awards are a step in the right direction for India’s largest online supermarket with the
company growing year-on-yea
bigbasket, India’s largest online supermarket with a presence in over 25 cities in India, has
become the proud recipient of 2 distinguished awards: ‘Retail and eCommerce app of the year’
at YourStory’s AWS Mobility Awards 2017 and the Owler 2017 Top Rated CEO Award for Hari
Menon.

Warehouse

Owner of the company

Hari Menon is the CEO of BigBasket.com, a company he co-founded in December 2011 with a
vision of setting up India's finest online food and grocery compan

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Conclusion
Bigbasket had originally planned to expand to 50 cities in total but has now scaled that back to the 25
it currently operates in. “Their expansion has stopped now. They are now not going to expand
anymore for some time to come. Now, their whole thing is to go deep into these cities and start
making each city work well.

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