News Update

figgital: Pumpkart, Figgital to open over 1,200 trendy retail shops in Uttar Pradesh

• ByStartupStory     |    December 13, 2021

Online marketplaces Pumpkart.com and Figgital will open over 1,200 trendy retail shops in Uttar Pradesh, in keeping with an announcement. Pumpkart and Figgital additionally set up 75 expertise centres in all districts of the state.

Both manufacturers “are going to establish themselves in rural areas by bringing rural e-commerce on their platform”, Okay S Bhatia, founder and CEO of Pumpkart and Figgital, stated, in keeping with the assertion.

The assertion added that Pumpkart has carved a spot for itself within the business by opening 75 trendy retail shops throughout southern India inside a yr.

The firm goals to deliver well-known manufacturers to a single place and supply alternatives to franchisees and rural retailers to scale their enterprise, stated Bhatia.

Figgital goals to disrupt the mass market by offering multi-brand digital merchandise in tier-III, IV, and rural areas, in keeping with the assertion.

Figgital’s idea of ‘retailer on wheels’ is just not new however it’s positively one of many firsts within a number of shopper electronics houses, it stated.

The firm aims to open technologically pushed shops more reasonably than the frequent brick-and-mortar shops, together with 75 experience centres of each manufacturer in each district of UP.

“Next in the pipeline is our online hyperlocal B2B2C (business-to-business-to-consumer) platform, which will democratise the market of consumer electronics as well as farm equipment in rural areas,” it stated.

Follow Startup Story