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Logistics Management Software Provider FarEye Raises $3.5 Million

23Jun By sharadNo Comments

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Logistics Management Software Provider FarEye Raises $3.5 Million

FarEye, a logistics management software provider, today said it has raised USD 3.5 million (Rs 20 crore) from SAIF Partners. The series A funding will be used for business expansion to other territories, FarEye said in a statement. There is a strong road-map of product enhancement for next 12 months and new features will be added regularly, it added. The company plans to integrate with IoT platforms and drones to enable automated delivery. "We are profitable B2B startup and believe in organic growth. Plagued by operational inefficiencies and high costs, the USD 60,000 billion logistics industry provides a huge opportunity to FarEye. We are here to streamline logistics in all industry verticals," FarEye co-founder Kushal Nahata said. Established in 2013 by Kushal Naha...

Coffee Day Enterprises Unit Sical Logistics to raise Rs 100 cr

11Jun By NitishNo Comments

FUNDING

Coffee Day Enterprises Unit Sical Logistics to raise Rs 100 cr

Coffee Day Enterprises, which runs coffee chain under brand Cafe Coffee Day, today said its subsidiary Sical Logistics plans to raise Rs 100 crore through issuance of non convertible debentures (NCDs) on private placement basis. "The companys subsidiary Sical Logistics Ltd at their Board meeting have approved the proposal to raise a fund of Rs 100 crore by way of issue of secured non convertible debentures on private placement basis," Coffee Day Enterprises said in a BSE filing. The company said it will utilise the proceeds of funds raised for redemption of an existing NCDs of Kotak Mahindra Bank. "Kotak Mahindra Bank, the present holders of 12.75 per cent secured non convertible debentures of Rs 100 crore issued by our subsidiary company in 2013 through the IDBI Trusteeship commu...

Warehouse Demand For E-commerce Firms Increases 22% in 2015: Study

31May By NitishNo Comments

ANALYSIS

Warehouse Demand For E-commerce Firms Increases 22% in 2015: Study

E-commerce has emerged as one of the key drivers for warehouse realty after third party logistics operators in 2015, a recent study by property consultant CBRE South Asia. Third party logistics operators constituted 30 per cent of the total demand for warehouse realty followed by e-commerce at 22 per cent. Nearly 2 million sqft of warehousing space was taken up by e-commerce firms in 2015, which is a significant jump as the share of the sector rose from a meagre 2 per cent of the total warehousing demand in 2012, to around 22 per cent during 2015. On the same lines, office space demand from e-commerce firms witnessed a 170 per cent year-on-year growth?from 7 lakh sqft in 2014 to 2 million sqft in 2015. "Investors have begun to show more interest as the growth story of the sector contin...

US Regulators Investigating Alibaba’s Financial Model

26May By NitishNo Comments

CHINA

US Regulators Investigating Alibaba’s Financial Model

U.S. regulators are investigating Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's accounting practices to determine whether they violated federal laws, the Chinese e-commerce giant said, sending its shares tumbling nearly 7 percent on Wednesday. Alibaba said the Securities and Exchange Commission launched the investigation earlier this year. Questions about its growth rate and its relations with affiliated companies have dogged the firm for years. It was not immediately clear what prompted the SEC investigation. Alibaba said that it was cooperating with the authorities and that the SEC advised it the investigation should not be seen as an indication the company had violated federal securities laws. The SEC focused on the accounting for logistics firm Cainiao Network, which is around 47 percent-owned ...

20May By NitishNo Comments

News

News Updates: MobiKwik Partners With Domino’s Pizza, Burger King, Flipkart’s EKART Introduces Smart Courier Service

MobiKwik, one of India's independent mobile payments' network has partnered with Domino's and Burger King for cashless payments across their outlets in 200+ Indian cities. With this association, MobiKwik now has enabled cashless payments across 8,000 restaurants in India. Announcing these associations, Upasana Taku, co-founder, MobiKwik said: "At MobiKwik, we are driven with the vision of a cashless India and our association with these food-retail giants like Dominos is a strong step towards realising that idea. We aim for 100 percent growth every month through offline food and retail tie ups." MobiKwik is one of the largest independent mobile payments network, connecting 30 million users with 75,000+ retailers. Founded in 2009 by Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku, the company has raise...

Logistics Solutions Provider Rivigo Eyes on 3000 Truck Fleet

18May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Logistics Solutions Provider Rivigo Eyes on 3000 Truck Fleet

Eyeing a larger market share, logistics solutions provider Rivigo is banking on drivers relay system for faster delivery of goods and is looking to take its trucking fleet to 3,000 this fiscal. The firm, which has a fleet of 800 trucks, claims that based on its innovative drivers relay system, truck loads are delivered to Chennai from Delhi in two days instead of conventional eight days. "Logistics is one of the largest industries -- more than USD 100-billion size -- and there is enough to do in this market... we started working on the Driver Relay Model wherein we change over the drivers after every few hundred kms... This improves the turnaround time and service levels," Rivigo CEO Deepak Garg said in a statement. Garg, who is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Lucknow, is a f...

Invested $300 Million in Supply Chain, Logistics in 18 Months: Snapdeal

13May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Invested $300 Million in Supply Chain, Logistics in 18 Months: Snapdeal

E-commerce major Snapdeal has pumped in $300 million (about Rs 1,990 crore) over the last 18 months to strengthen its supply chain and logistics and facilitate the increase in shipment volumes. The city-based firm has seen 1.9 times increase in shipment volumes from 1.29 lakh daily shipments last year to 2.5 lakh this year. "We have seen a significant increase of 1.9 times in shipment volumes. This is on account of increase in assortment on Snapdeal from 12 million to 35 million over the year. We have also expanded our seller base which helped increase shipments," Snapdeal Chief Customer Experience Officer Jayant Sood told PTI. He added that reports by PwC and RedSeer Consulting suggest that Snapdeal's promised delivery time is the shortest across India. "The number of sell...

Deal: Roadrunnr and TinyOwl in Early Stage of All-Stock Deal

9May By NitishNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Deal: Roadrunnr and TinyOwl in Early Stage of All-Stock Deal

As per the report in ET, Roadrunnr (Logistics player) and Tinyowl(online food ordering platform) are in early stages talks to merge in an all-stock deal. Venture funds including Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners invested in both the startups. At present, both companies have cash to sustain operations for at least 10 months. The talks under way for a few months now, are still at a preliminary stage the sources said. If talks prove successful, the combined entity could explore several options including launching food ordering and delivery services and may also expand to categories beyond food like the launch of bike taxis, the sources said. If the deal does goes through, the combined entity may look at raising fresh funding of about $40 million, the person said. A successfu...

30Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

INDIA

India Can Save USD 50 Bn if Logistics Costs are Brought Down to 9 Pct of GDP: Study

India can save up to USD 50 billion if logistics costs are brought down from 14 percent to nine percent of country's gross domestic product (GDP) thereby making domestic goods more competitive in global markets, an ASSOCHAM-Resurgent India joint study said today. "With expected inflow of new investments owing to government's thrust on promoting domestic manufacturing sector, India's cargo and logistics industry is likely to clock a compounded annual growth rate of about 16 percent during the course of next few years," noted the study on 'Cargo and logistics industry in India,' conducted by ASSOCHAM jointly with knowledge firm Resurgent India. "The Make in India campaign will see investments connect India to global production networks that would generate new business for logistics in ...

DTDC Express Invested $1 million in Logistics Firm Shipsy

6Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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DTDC Express Invested $1 million in Logistics Firm Shipsy

Logistics major DTDC Express has picked up 20 per cent stake in Gurgaon-based Llama Logisol, which operates logistics solutions provider Shipsy, for over USD 1 million (Rs 6.65 crore). Shipsy was founded in June last year by IIT graduates, Soham Chokshi, Dhruv Agrawal, Maharshi Devraj and Himanshu Gupta. Abhishek Chakraborty, Executive Director of DTDC Express, said the investment in Shipsy would go a long way in helping it adopt disruptive technologies. "DTDCs investment in Shipsy would go a long way in helping itself adopt disruptive technologies in its future growth segments of eCommerce and e-fulfilment," Chakraborty added. In September last year, Shipsy had received angel funding from Dheeraj Jain, the managing partner of Redcliffe Capital. After Jain came on board, Ship...

Worried Analysts Question Amazon’s Logistics Plans

29Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

News

Worried Analysts Question Amazon’s Logistics Plans

In the wake of Amazon.com Inc's disappointing financial results that sent shares plunging Thursday, analysts blamed rising costs to deliver goods, which increased to $4.5 billion in the quarter, up 24.4 percent from the same quarter last year. And they sharply questioned the company's plans to continue to make heavy investments in logistics, even at the expense of profits. They wondered why it was planning to buy more assets like trucks, and reportedly to lease jets, and worried it planned to spend the money to take on shippers like United Parcel Service Inc. "The so-called (earnings) miss was half fulfillment and half marketing," said Michael Pachter, a managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities. The growing popularity of Prime, which promises free, two-day del...