Swiggy to Deliver Stunning Silver Jewellery in 10 Minutes, Partners With Mia by Tanishq

Mia by Tanishq, one of India’s trendiest precious fine jewellery brands, announces its collaboration with Swiggy Instamart, marking its entry into the burgeoning quick commerce space. Starting this week, Mia’s exquisite silver jewellery collection will be available on Swiggy Instamart in more than 35 cities, including Gurgaon, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, and Hyderabad. The operations will be offering customers the convenience of doorstep delivery of silver jewellery in under 10 minutes.

This partnership leverages Swiggy Instamart’s position as a market leader in quick commerce, known for its exceptional communication and operational excellence, to enhance the e-commerce experience for consumers.

The collaboration aligns with Mia by Tanishq’s strategy to expand its omni-channel presence, reaching new customers through diverse sales channels. As part of this partnership, Mia will introduce a range of stunning silver jewellery catering to the growing demand for precious jewellery in the quick commerce market. Whether it’s a special occasion or a thoughtful gift, Mia's silver jewellery promises to bring a touch of elegance and good fortune, delivered swiftly and seamlessly.

Sampurna Rakshit, Marketing & E-commerce Head - Mia by Tanishq, shared her thought on the collaboration:

This is an effort at our end to prioritise our consumers convenience and be present wherever the users are. Owing to Mia’s exquisite design language coupled with our affordable pricing, we have always been India’s favourite gift of choice. As quick commerce transforms the way India shops, consumers are also looking for stylish jewellery gifting options from trusted brands. So we are thrilled to partner with Swiggy Instamart, who can get many more consumers to access and experience our brand at their fingertips.

This strategic collaboration highlights the growing trend in the Indian retail landscape, where quick commerce platforms are emerging as key touchpoints for consumers prioritizing convenience. It ensures that customers are well-informed about Mia’s beautiful collections and the ease with which they can access these offerings through Swiggy Instamart.

In A First, CredR starts Contactless Delivery of Bikes and Scooters, and Home Test Ride

Post Covid-19, many businesses are diversifying and bringing new ways of engaging with users, thus maintaining social distancing. With few restrictions eased out for businesses, CredR, India's Most Trusted brand to buy and sell used bikes and scooters, has taken an aggressive online approach, by introducing contactless delivery of used bikes and scooters directly to the buyer’s home. This is the first time any company in the used auto segment has introduced a feature, where customers can book online and get the used bike delivered to their homes. This has been launched in Bangalore and will be expanding to other cities.

According to Sasidhar Nandigam, Chief Strategy Officer; “The entire Covid-19 pandemic would continue to transform the way we live and everyone would soon realize that the virus will not disappear from our lives any time soon. With a predictable fall in consumers’ disposable incomes and the change in behaviours of not opting for public transport and shared mobility, we have already seen substantial increase in the demand for used bikes and scooters, as a mode of low-cost personal mobility”.

He further added that maintaining social distancing will become a norm, thus changing the way that businesses are operated. Keeping this trend in mind, they have also introduced initiatives which will ensure zero physical interaction and focus on digitally completing transactions.

With people staying at home amidst the lockdown, due to unavailability of public transportation and the numerous restrictions on private transportation; customers can now book a second hand bike or scooter online, for free. The booked used two-wheeler will then be delivered at the customer’s home where the customer can take a test ride, verify its documents and make the final payment through a contactless medium - such as online transfer or through e-wallets. The entire process will be completely contactless and digital.

A Covid-19 guideline has also been put in place for staff members as well as customers, to ensure that these are implemented by the company and in-showroom. In case of dealing with customers, no showroom personnel will be allowed to accompany customers on test rides, disposable/ frequently sanitized stationery will be used, handover of material or documents to the customer will happen in a safe and contactless manner. The Aarogya Setu app will be installed and made fully operational by each staff member. The name and contact number of each and every visitor will be taken down for easy contact tracing, in case of any untoward incident.

About CredR

CredR is India’s most trusted and only omnichannel consumer brand for buying and selling used two-wheelers. Founded in 2015, CredR, aims to simplify the entire process of transacting in used two-wheelers, by offering industry’s-first-in-class products/ services for building trust in a segment which is highly unorganized and fragmented. The company operates India’s first and largest chain of CredR branded retail showrooms across major cities like Pune, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Kota, and Hyderabad through the franchise model. These showrooms offer customers with a wide range of used refurbished two-wheelers at the best prices. Using its proprietary technology and full-stack vertically integrated business model, CredR is revolutionising the entire customer experience.

The company is backed by marquee blue-chip funds such as Eight Road Ventures (Fidelity's proprietary investment arm), Omidyar Network, AngelList, K Ganesh (GrowthStory) and angel investors like Amit Agarwal (CEO, Amazon India), Rohit Bansal, Kunal Bahl, Sameer Sawhney and Deb.

Home Cloud Kitchen “Homefoodi” to deliver Home-Cooked Meals throughout the Lockdown

A cloud kitchen is primarily a kitchen that accepts incoming orders only through online ordering systems and offers no dine-in facility. They have a base kitchen that delivers food to the customers' doorstep. While the term Cloud Kitchen has largely been used for Commercial Kitchens, a new wave has been sweeping for Home Kitchens. A Home Cloud Kitchen is a Home Kitchen which delivers Home Cooked Food just as any other Cloud Kitchen without any dining facility.

Amidst the current events, Homefoodi a Noida based e-commerce startup and also a renowned aggregator of Cloud Kitchens operating from Home aims to offer nutritious and hygienic meals to its customers while undertaking maximum measures while ensuring the safety of its home-chefs, delivery executives and customers.

Homefoodi is India's 1st Mobile App for authentic home-made food made by Genuine home chefs in their home Kitchens. With over 200+ Home Chefs in Noida, the Homefoodi Mobile App offers access to the widest range of Home Food and Bakery products prepared by home chefs during the course of the lockdown period.



The current global scenario and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic are disturbing every facet of our lives, keeping the current scenario in mind, the Government of India recently extended lockdown across the country. A lockdown does not allow one to step out of their premises unless an emergency. A recent incident of a renowned Pizza Outlet in Delhi caught the eyeballs of the entire nation with a Corona Positive Pizza Delivery Executive was found delivering pizzas across the city endangering his own colleagues as well as his customers, and completely violating the rules set by our Government.

Homefoodi, therefore, undertakes preventive readiness measures for the safety of their customers, home-chefs as well as the delivery executives. 

They follow a 3 C framework of Delivery Hygiene:

• CARRY: All Delivery Representatives have been ably trained on Hygiene and Sanitization standards. As a practice, every Delivery Rep carries a Kit comprising of A) Hand Sanitizer B) Face Mask and C) Gloves and D) Thermometer.


• CONTACT LESS: Delivery packages are picked and dropped without any contact with Home Chef and the Consumer.   


• CONFIRM: All Delivery representatives are supervised daily to confirm to Sanitization, Hygiene and Social Distancing Norms as outlined.

These are the times when most of the Commercial kitchens are shut. Homefoodi in compliance with the Govt. mandate is offering homemade food made by home chefs. Homefoodi is providing their services across Noida, Greater Noida and Indirapuram. 

With the announcement of the Lockdown, Homefoodi has also rolled out a key initiative, wherein they have been ‘Donating a Meal for Every Order Placed’ to the needy on behalf of the customer.

Narendra Singh Dahiya, Founder and Director Homefoodi stated, “Our business model is built around Health and Hygiene. We are delighted that our passionate and talented community of 200 plus Home Chefs can now serve Healthy, Fresh and Hygienic Home food to countless Customers."

Homefoodi has been very selective and responsible in selecting every Home Chefs. As a Company policy, the Homefoodi team visits every Home chef to ensure Food taste, quality, hygiene, cleanliness of their kitchen, and packaging standards before on-boarding them. All Home Chefs are 100% FSSAI Certified and uphold the Highest Standards of Cleanliness and Hygiene that can be only witnessed at Homes. Homefoodi Home Chefs make food in their Home Kitchens that prioritizing Fresh, Healthy, and Hygienic food. 

Homefoodi is a Mobile Application for Home Food made by Home Chefs that empowers and connects society. Based out of Noida, the company has a mission of creating “Ghar-Ghar Start-Up” with an aim to create India’s biggest self-employment opportunity for women by offering a platform to earn from home being a Home Chef. The company aims towards advocating initiatives like Healthy India, Women empowerment, which empowers every homemaker towards nation-building and healthy India. The screening criterion for all chefs is a comprehensive process. To deliver 100% authenticity, the Homefoodi team visits the aspiring Home Chefs to check for food tasting, food quality, hygiene, and cleanliness of their kitchen and packaging standards. All Home Chefs are 100% FSSAI Certified.

ePayLater Partners with Zipgrid to Facilitate Last-Mile Delivery of Essential Items

ePayLater, a renowned innovator in digital credit space, has partnered with Zipgrid, a technology-led service provider for housing communities to launch ZipMart to ensure seamless last-mile logistics of essential commodities. The initiative intends to help select residential societies with online ordering while ensuring contactless delivery necessary to curtail the pandemic. The service is now operational and available to all residential societies registered with Zipgrid in Mumbai and NCR.

ZipMart offers an assortment of edibles and other essential items available at ePayLater’s partnering stores. The collaborative commerce activities of ePayLater and Zipgrid allow consumers to place an order from the safe confines of their home while enabling digital payments to minimize the risk of contagion. A user of a Zipgrid-registered housing society/building can place grocery orders using ePayLater’s online portal integrated on the Zipgrid app, under the ZipMart tab. The service is available on both Android and iOS platforms. Once placed, the order will be delivered at the doorstep of the consumer by an executive while observing all social distancing norms mandated by the government. The partnership looks to ease the buying process for consumers without jeopardizing their health and safety amidst the lockdown. The joint endeavor not only facilitates an uninterrupted supply of essentials but also adheres to the government’s guidelines in ensuring contactless and doorstep delivery.

Talking about this development, Uday Somayajula, Co-Founder, ePayLater said, “As India grapples with COVID-19, it is necessary to deliver essentials to buyers at their homes. We are happy to associate with Zipgrid, and our collective aim is to ensure people remain indoors and order essentials from the safety and comfort of their homes. We have embarked on this collaboration to empower communities and contribute to the greater cause of curbing this contagion."

Commenting on the partnership, Jaydip Popat, Co-Founder, Zipgrid shared, “These are testing times and we wish to ease the process of lockdown-living for everyone, in our capacity. The partnership between ePayLater and Zipgrid is a bold step in that direction which utilizes our collective commerce offering to service a building as a whole while being able to provide a large assortment and guaranteed delivery"

Currently, ePayLater is used by around 50,000 small retailers and Kirana stores across 75+ cities in India. ePayLater has developed a front-end interface for third-parties that not only helps end-consumers to avail ‘contactless’ online ordering but also empowers the neighborhood Kirana stores with last-mile logistics. This comes amidst the 3-week extension of the nationwide lockdown, which began on March 25, 2020.

Founded in 2015 by Uday Somayajula, Akshat Saxena and Aurko Bhattacharya, ePayLater is a ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ payment solution through which customers can instantly get access to a credit limit to make faster online/offline purchases. It is the first of its kind Digital Credit card in the country. ePayLater extends credit limits to individuals both for personal consumption (end consumer) and for purchasing business supplies (in case of self-employed professionals). ePayLater provides state-of-the-art technology and analytics platform for the Indian retail industry with a focus on Kiranas.

ePayLater has partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Metro Cash and Carry Future Retail, IRCTC to name a few and is continuously increasing its footprint across the FMCG sector.

ZipGrid is a PropTech company, backed by 1 Crowd & JLL Inc. (NYSE: JLL) that provides full-stack technology solutions for all societies and property owners. They are well equipped with technology solutions that make Financial & Compliance Management a breeze to handle for building associations and societies of all shapes and sizes. They have been managing 1000+ associations across Pan India. In a recent endeavour to provide stress-free solutions for societies, Zipgrid has equipped it’s leading partner “JLL” with an application that offers all kinds of benefits to both committee members and residents. The application is ISO 27001 certified and PII encrypted ensuring security and privacy across our services.

Zipgrid strives to address every need of society and association through its combination of technology and professional knowledge-based services so that the committee members and residents of the society are at peace from the hassles of society management.

Courier Company Rapid Delivery Ventures into Door-Step Deliveries of Essentials

Leveraging their expertise in last-mile deliveries, Rapid delivery launches essential.rapidd.co -an online marketplace to cater to the essential needs of citizens. Providing door-step deliveries during the lockdown, Rapid Delivery is the first ever courier company to venture into the aggregation and delivery of essentials like grocery, medicines, pulses and Covid19 gear. In order to discourage the hoarding of supplies, the company announces its ‘no minimum quantity’ feature for buying essentials through this platform.

Incepted in the year 2016, Rapid Delivery is a leading Logistics & Courier Solutions Company specializing in the eCommerce space. Under essential.rapidd.co , the company has aggregated with multiple vendors .

Aaqyl Chagla, MD, Rapid Delivery says, “With the lockdown, citizens are facing real hardships to procure essentials. With this venture, we hope to be able to cater to their very basic needs, thereby delivering these goods in time.”

“We decided to start with the delivery of CoViD19 gear, especially masks, shields, gloves and PPE to Doctors, medical practitioners and all CoViD warriors. We however, also realised the need to supply essentials to citizens. Hopefully, this step of ours will help control the spread of the virus. It gives us great pleasure to be a part of the logistics industry, whereby we are privileged to be instrumental in addressing a key concern of citizens and the governance, during this crisis”, adds Naomi, Director .

Rapid Delivery is making available, fresh vegetables and fruits at reasonable prices on his platform, along with groceries and more than 60+ products listed online. The courier company, with this step, is bound to reduce the need for citizens to step out of their homes, thereby curbing the possibilities of the spread.

With highly tech-enabled systems and team size of 110, Rapid Delivery has spread its wings across 1000 pin codes, with its major footprint in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Delhi (NCR), Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad, and Banglore. They aim to operate in 15 major cities by the end of 2020 and handle 30,000 parcels a day. The company envisages being the go-to Logistics Service Provider for E-commerce Companies, aiming at improving the Delivery Efficiency and thus improving the customer experience for Online Shoppers by delivering maximum on or before the promised delivery date. Their major clients are Shoppers Stop, Health Kart, Netmeds, Mirraw.com among 500 others.

The company recently acquired a pre-series A funding from Mr. Bipin Vaziraniand aspires to utilize it for expanding its network and automating processes.

Aaqyl is an IT engineer from St. Francis Institute of Technology. He spearheads their technological development and is the CEO of Rapid Delivery. He loves logistics and is always finding ways to optimize any operational processes. Naomi is a Telecommunications Engineer from St. Francis Institute of Technology and heads the business development. The entrepreneur couple, with their cutting-edge technology and a thorough understanding of customers’ pain areas, are working on customer satisfaction and process improvement to define trends in the courier, logistics and courier space