4. Pepperfry
• Pepperfry is India’s No. 1 Online Furniture
• Pepperfry.com opened for business on 3rd
January 2012
• The company, which was founded by former eBay
executives Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah in
2011
• Pepperfry won the Red Herring Top 100 Asia
Award in 2012.
• Pepper is honest and a spice that is proudly
Indian, Fry stands for fun.
5. Popular Brands
• Woodsworth, Mintwud,
• Casacraft, Mudramark,
• Tupperware, Forzza,
• Prestige, Morphy
• Richards, Housefull,
• Fos Lighting, Little India,
• Bombay Dyeing, Bajaj,
• King Koil, Swayam,
• Eureka Forbes, RAHA, Hawkins
9. BusinessModel
Marketplace Model- Pepperfry.com follows a managed marketplace
model. In this model, the orders are dispatch directly from the vendor to
the customer.
Online store- The sites provide the platform for a large no. of sellers to
showcase their products. It works in close association with more then 1000
merchant partner to offer a huge range
Product Assortment- it gives an offering of 45000 products from over
200+ brands
18. Funding
$100 million (around Rs.600 crore) in a Series D
funding round led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
They have raised $28 million in three previous
rounds, the last being a $15 million round in May
2014
Manipal Education Group chairmanT.V. Mohandas
Pai and chief executive of Manipal Education and
Medical Group Ranjan pai also participated in the
funding round through Zodius Technology Fund.
22. SWOT
• Strength
1 Strongly funded
2 Delivery & support
3Huge no. of products
Weakness
1 Consumer mindset
2 Interstate movement
Opportunity
1 Increasing buying
behavior of youth
2New technology in e
commerce
Threats
1 Competition in market
2 Consumer mind set