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Housr announces its entry in India's fast growing co-living market

Opportunity India Desk Apr 30, 2019 - 2 min read

Backed by real estate heavyweights, Housr has announced its entry in India’s fast-growing co-living market. Founded by two real-estate veterans, Deepak Anand and Kalpesh Mehta, Housr is a super-aggregator of properties, which creates experiences, fosters communities through state-of-the-art technology-enabled co-living spaces. Operating in stealth mode for the past six months, Housr has locked in 10,000+ ...

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JSW Group forays into paints business

Opportunity India Desk May 03, 2019 - 1 min read

The Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Group is entering into the industrial and decorative paints business. The company’s move will see it take on heavyweights such as Asian Paints and Kansai Nerolac among others. Parth Jindal, Managing Director of JSW Paints, said, “The entire paint industry and the entire journey to purchase paints for the consumer has ...

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Stanza Living forays into Bengaluru with 5,000 beds

Opportunity India Desk May 06, 2019 - 1 min read

Stanza Living, the student accommodation service provider, has forayed into Bengaluru with 5,000 beds. The move is part of the company’s expansion plan to hit 1 lakh beds across India by the end of 2021. This entry into Bengaluru takes Stanza's total bed capacity to 15,000 across 10 cities in the country. In 2018-19, the company's revenue stood at Rs 20 ...

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Ford eyes expanding GoRide medical transportation service to 40 cities in the US

Opportunity India Desk May 09, 2019 - 1 min read

Ford Motor Co is looking to expand its GoRide medical transportation service to 40 cities across the United States over the next four years. The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker will launch its medical transport venture into Ohio and Florida this year and other large states by 2020. GoRide uses Ford Transit and Transit Connect vans for giving rides to ...

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Walkaroo Eyeing to Double its Turnover in FY20

Opportunity India Desk May 18, 2019 - 1 min read

Walkaroo, which is a homegrown footwear brand from U4ic International, is planning to double its turnover by the fiscal year 2020. The footwear brand is focusing to exactly double its turnover from Rs 500 crore to Rs 1,000 crore this fiscal. Walkaroo was established in 2013 which catered to the footwear space with sports sandals ...

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Auxilo Finserve ventures into Gujarat

Opportunity India Desk Jun 03, 2019 - 1 min read

Auxilo Finserve Private Limited has entered into Gujarat region in order to cater to the burgeoning education financing market. India’s fastest growing education ecosystem NBFC has earmarked Rs 100 crore to disburse education loans by FY 2021 for fulfilling two major education financing requirements, including Student loans for higher studies (overseas & domestic) and infrastructure ...

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Pee Safe ventures into sanitary products segment

Opportunity India Desk Jun 03, 2019 - 1 min read

Pee Safe, a leading feminine hygiene brand, has forayed into the sanitary products segment with the launch of 100% organic cotton and biodegradable sanitary pads along with panty liners in the Indian market. The company is aiming to capture the promising sanitary products market, which is expected to reach a value of $992.8 Million by ...

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ANAROCK Launches Lucknow Operations

Opportunity India Desk Jun 04, 2019 - 1 min read

India's leading real estate services firm, ANAROCK Property Consultants has announced the launch of its office and operations in Lucknow. Anup Kumar Singh, previously senior Regional Manager at Square Yards (Lucknow), has been appointed as City Lead and will drive ANAROCK's expansion in the rapidly growing capital city of Uttar Pradesh. Santhosh Kumar, Vice Chairman, ...

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Ferns N Petals enters packaged mineral water market

Opportunity India Desk Jun 04, 2019 - 1 min read

Ferns N Petals Pvt Ltd has launched ‘FNP Water’. With this launch, the company has entered the packaged mineral water market. FNP Water contains various minerals like salts and sulphur compounds. It comes in three recyclable variants, including 1 litre, 500 ml, 250 ml, and 100 ml PET bottles. FNP Water’s Quality Standards are at par with France and ...

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Student housing brand Stanza Living starts operations in 7 new cities

Opportunity India Desk Jun 06, 2019 - 1 min read

As part of its pan-India expansion plan, Stanza Living, India’s largest student housing brand, has started operations in Hyderabad, Chennai, Coimbatore, Indore, Pune, Baroda and Dehradun. With this expansion, the company has reached a national inventory of 22,000 beds across ten cities, growing over 150x in 24 months. It has also clocked Rs 20 crore ...

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