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Discovering the Entrepreneurship Potential of Rural India

Opportunity India Desk Aug 14, 2020 - 6 min read

According to a report by GrantThornton, India holds an enormous pool of opportunities across various sectors in rural India. With increased awareness and disposable income, the Indian rural populace is exploring its entrepreneurial side through start-ups and various franchise models. Further, to discover the business potential of rural India, it is important to introduce a ...

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Current Market Landscape for Franchising in India

Opportunity India Desk Aug 14, 2020 - 6 min read

Current Market Landscape for Franchising Franchising is growing at an impressive pace in India. According to Franchise India, franchising has witnessed a growth of around 30-35% over the last four-five years and the overall turnover is estimated at around INR 938 billion. Currently, the sector contributes nearly 1.8% to the Indian GDP and is estimated ...

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Piyush Goyal lauds traders' role during lockdown, asks them to push for “Vocal for Local”

Opportunity India Desk Aug 13, 2020 - 2 min read

Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry & Railways, lauded the role of traders during the COVID pandemic, and particularly the lockdown period, by rising to the occasion and ensuring the availability of essential goods in every nook and corner of the country. He stated that that Prime Minister has also recognized the ...

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Shiprocket intends to increase customer service teams at partners by 3x this quarter

Opportunity India Desk Aug 13, 2020 - 2 min read

India's leading tech-enabled D2C aggregator, Shiprocket has announced its plans to begin hiring in the current quarter of the year to fortify its existing team of 310 employees. Having hired 25 candidates in the last quarter (April-June), the e-commerce logistics aggregator plans to hire an additional 60 highly skilled applicants in the current quarter. The ...

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How salons have adapted to the New Normal?

Opportunity India Desk Aug 11, 2020 - 3 min read

We are more than halfway through the year and after having overused the terms "these are unprecedented times'', a "difficult year" and "this is the new normal", things are finally starting to open up and every industry, the service provider has remarkably adapted to this change! From contactless deliveries to limited and private seating in ...

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Zoe Concepts Pvt Ltd launches Global Furniture brand BoConcept in Bengaluru

Opportunity India Desk Aug 11, 2020 - 3 min read

Zoe Concepts Pvt. Ltd. has launched its first BoConcept flagship store in Bengaluru. BoConcept, one of the most recognized brands in the premium furniture space, is a 65-year-Old Danish furniture manufacturer, which offers high-quality modern design furniture and accessories for living, dining, bedroom, home-office and outdoor spaces. It features products based on the principles of ...

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Edtech Startup Winuall Raises Second Round of Funding for Scaling up the Business

Opportunity India Desk Aug 11, 2020 - 1 min read

Bengaluru based ed-tech startup Winuall announced today that it has raised a second round of funding to an undisclosed amount. This funding round was led by Ramakant Sharma, Co-Founder of Livspace; and Amit Lakhotia, Co-Founder of Park+, ex-VP PayTM Business. Other Investors include Akash Gehani (Cofounder, Instamojo), Abhinav Patwa (VP, Onsitego), and existing investors Ankit ...

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How innovations in EdTech are disrupting school education in India

Opportunity India Desk Aug 06, 2020 - 4 min read

Ed-Tech or education technology has seen rapid growth and adoption across the Indian education spectrum. From higher learning and specialised online vocational courses, robotics, and multimedia modes of interactive teaching to assisted learning and special app-based tutorials, etc., the past decade has seen multiple innovations. And the pandemic has further enhanced the spread and accelerated ...

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Electric two-wheeler maker Okinawa eyes to expand dealer network to 500 in FY2021-end

Opportunity India Desk Aug 06, 2020 - 1 min read

Okinawa is planning to expand its dealer network by adding 150 dealerships by the end of the current fiscal. This will take its total dealership network to more than 500 outlets across India. The electric two-wheeler maker aims to target sub-dealers besides the primary dealers while expanding its footprints. In a bid to support the ...

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Orientbell Tiles launches new products virtually to help its channel partners

Opportunity India Desk Aug 06, 2020 - 2 min read

As one of the most professional & digitally savvy manufacturers of ceramic and vitrified tiles in the country, Orientbell Tiles innovate and set another benchmark with a first-ever digital launch of 200 SKUs. In a live YouTube launch attended by more than 1000 Channel Partners as well as its own employees, it showcased its prowess ...

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