PharmEasy is an online healthcare aggregator based in Mumbai that delivers health products at discounted prices quickly. It was founded in 2014 and has mobile and web platforms. With a valuation of $700 million, it is a leading online medicine delivery app and helps connect customers to local medical stores. The document discusses PharmEasy's strategies at the corporate, business, and operational levels, which include partnerships, accessing new markets, marketing, technology investments, and customer relationship management.
PharmEasy is an online healthcare aggregator based in Mumbai that delivers health products at discounted prices quickly. It was founded in 2014 and has mobile and web platforms. With a valuation of $700 million, it is a leading online medicine delivery app and helps connect customers to local medical stores. The document discusses PharmEasy's strategies at the corporate, business, and operational levels, which include partnerships, accessing new markets, marketing, technology investments, and customer relationship management.
PharmEasy is an online healthcare aggregator based in Mumbai that delivers health products at discounted prices quickly. It was founded in 2014 and has mobile and web platforms. With a valuation of $700 million, it is a leading online medicine delivery app and helps connect customers to local medical stores. The document discusses PharmEasy's strategies at the corporate, business, and operational levels, which include partnerships, accessing new markets, marketing, technology investments, and customer relationship management.
PharmEasy is an online healthcare aggregator based in Mumbai that delivers health products at discounted prices quickly. It was founded in 2014 and has mobile and web platforms. With a valuation of $700 million, it is a leading online medicine delivery app and helps connect customers to local medical stores. The document discusses PharmEasy's strategies at the corporate, business, and operational levels, which include partnerships, accessing new markets, marketing, technology investments, and customer relationship management.
PharmEasy is an Mumbai online Healthcare aggregator which helps
in delivering best health products with great discounts with shortest time possible. Founded by Dharmil Sheth and Dhaval Shah in the year 2014. It has its mobile and web versions with best technology to use and order through these platforms. One of the leading online delivery medicine app it has a net valuation of 700 million USD. Helps in connect with the local medi stores for faster and efficient delivery. MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE ONLINE MEDICINE SPACE- PharmEasy PharmEarth Myra Bookmeds Practo Netmeds 1mg HealthMug Meds on way Care on go. STRATEGIES OF PHARMEASY- 1. CORPORATE LEVEL STRATEGIES- At the highest level, corporate strategy involves high-level strategic decisions that will help a company sustain a competitive advantage and remain profitable in the foreseeable future. Corporate-level decisions are all-encompassing of a company. Partnerships and Mergers- Partnerships and outsourcing are a daily occurrence in the pharmaceutical industry. Seeking for and actualizing sustainable mergers is a good business development strategy for a pharmaceutical company. This is the reason PharmEasy entered market with merger with Med life. Accessing new markets and diversification- Accessing new and functioning markets is a critical business strategy in the highly competitive pharmaceuticals industry.Emerging global markets present good opportunity to pharmaceutical companies. PharmEasy is constantly finding new markets internationally and finding ways to merge with order brands. This sector requires lots of reach and availability of services in marketplace. 2. BUSINESS LEVEL STRATEGIES- At the median level of strategy are business-level decisions. The business-level strategy focuses on market position to help the company gain a competitive advantage in its own industry or other industries. Operational Marketing and sales strategies- An operational marketing and sales strategy is paramount for a pharmaceutical company's growth and profitability. A marketing and sales business development strategy helps pharmaceutical firms to take advantage of the growing market. Similarly, Marketing practices of PharmEasy helped it to maintain more trusted brand to order medicines. Technology based- Investing in technological innovations is a profitable business strategy for a pharmaceutical business. Trends such as increasing competition,globalization, and shorter product-cycle times are real challenges for the industry.Technological innovations enable a pharmaceutical company to deal with thesechallenges by reaching more consumers and suppliers, receiving instant feedback at a cheaper cost. One such strategy is using e-detailing, whereby a company communicates a product's details on the Internet. Consumers are able to schedule appointments onlineand learn about products or have a company address their questions in real time. (Bob Kelly, n.d.) 3. OPERATIONAL LEVEL STRATEGIES- At the lowest level are functional-level decisions. They focus on activities within and between different functions, aimed at improving the efficiency of the overall business. These strategies are focused on particular functions and groups. Customer relationship – PharmEasy provides superior customer case services to the buyers. This ensures continued customer satisfaction. From prescription to deliver the agents are require to ask overall experience of customers every time. This strategy ensures the company a higher customer satisfaction. The results on ground level are given to area manager, and analysis and reports are made. CONCLUSION-
The ‘Strategy’ team at PharmEasy is a key link between various stakeholders in
the organization, both internal and external. Marketing is very crucial for achieving customer attention and PharmEasy has adopted various marketing strategies. The company targets its customers by popularizing its network online through social media marketing and other related networks. Along with their online marketing and the company manage to run the TV campaigns for engaging more viewers and retaining its brand. As India's online pharmacy it is expected to eat into the market share of traditional brick-and-mortar pharma retail market.