Logistics has always been an important sector for any country, including India, but the space had never seen such a ground-breaking turn before Delhivery came into being.
Proving themselves since 2011 as a great startup, this company is now like a backbone for the logistics industry.
Delhivery is currently one of the leading players in the logistics space in the country. It offers a full suite of services such as last-mile delivery, third-party and transit warehousing, reverse logistics, payment collection, vendor-to-warehouse, vendor-to-customer shipping, and more.
Delhivery – About and How it Works
Delhivery is a prominent courier services, logistics, and supply chain solutions company that enthusiastically works with individuals and businesses.
Founded back in May 2011, Delhivery is headquartered in Delhi and provides a range of services, including last-mile delivery, third-party and transit warehousing, reverse logistics, payment collection, vendor-to-warehouse, vendor-to-customer shipping, and more.
The company is backed by Times Internet Ltd, which had acquired a minority stake in the firm in June last year. Having three responsibilities on its shoulders – fulfillment, omnichannel, and data services, the company’s focus is to deliver the best service without any waste of chances in solving the customers’ problems.
It provides the products and services intending to build trust and improve the lives of consumers, small businesses, enterprises, and their growing team of employees and partners.
Delhivery is disrupting India’s logistics industry with the help of its proprietary network design, infrastructure, partnerships, engineering, and technological capabilities.
Delhivery brings unparalleled cost efficiency and pan-India reach to its 10,000+ customers.
Driven by its mission to shrink time and distance, Delhivery aims to make the world a smaller place for its customers. Powered by an effective and streamlined business plan, Delhivery is emerging as one of the leading players in the supply chain and logistics space, so much so that it can be referred to as one of such courier and logistics startups that has paved a new path for the delivery of products.
Besides, Delhivery is driven by a constant focus on their customers and to serving them with quality products, thereby building confidence and trust for the brand.
Delhivery – Startup Story
Delhivery was started by a bunch of engineers – Bhavesh Manglani, Kapil Bharati, Mohit Tandon, Sahil Barua, and Suraj Saharan.
It was approximately half-past eleven at night when Suraj and Sahil ordered food from a nearby restaurant in Gurgaon.
When they had the delivery man standing in front of their door, they got chatty with the delivery person, who spoke of the problem of unemployment that was about to break out.
This made the founders rush down to the store and talk to the manager. Soon they were at the restaurant, talking to the owner, who further elaborated his plans of closing down the business and moving his staff elsewhere.
Here’s where Sahil and Suraj decided to start their delivery business, Delhivery.
Yes, they hired all of them!
Delhivery – Business Model and Revenue Model Delhivery has currently been hailed as India’s leading supply chain services company.
It is one of India’s largest B2B, B2C, and C2C Logistics Courier Service Provider.
The company is best known for the economical shipping rates that it charges for the services.
Furthermore, Delhivery claims to have No Setup Fees or Subscription Charges!
The services offered by Delhivery can be divided into 3 primary departments
- Warehousing – Flexible warehousing across 40+ cities in India
2. Transportation – Largest pan-India reach across 19000+ pin codes and 2500+ cities
3. ECommerce – Ready integration with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento & Opencart.
Shareholders structure of Delhivery:
Softbank with 22.78% shares, Nexus with10.62% shares, Carlyle With 7.42% shares, CPPIB with 7.06% shares, Founders with 6.97% shares, Tiger Global 6.10% shares, Times Internet
with 5.10% shares, Addition with 3.60% shares, GIC with 2.47% shares, Alpha Wave Ventures with 2.32% shares, BCCL with 1.24% shares, Fosum with1.11% shares and others with 23.21%
shares.
