Vikas Nahar, founder of Indian healthy snacking brand Happilo, explains why packaging communication is vital for retail distribution.
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Vikas Nahar says e-commerce customer acquisition cost typically runs 500 rupees
“For example, when you want to promote your own website, acquiring a customer on an Instagram or a Facebook or even on Google, it's like, you know, typically the CAC, the acquisition of, the customer acquisition cost is typically, you know, 500 hundred rupees.”
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Happilo is the first food brand in years to secure IPL sponsorship
“There is no food brand actually who has done this kind of association in IPL. For many years now, I think we are trying to break that clutter. It's not only the gaming and the IT companies were there, and actually we are the first food company to represent, ho…”
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Happilo was the first Indian dry fruit brand to introduce ziplock pouches
“We introduced the Ziploc pouches, which was first in the industry, right? And earlier, nobody used to sell in stand-up pouches.”
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Loose dry fruits from unorganized markets spoil within 7 to 15 days
“If you buy something from an unorganized market which is loosely packed or, you know, filled from a bharani and all, the shelf life won't last much long, right? You get it to home and maybe in, in seven days, 15 days, that might spoil as well.”
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Vikas Nahar used an 80-lakh government loan to fund Happilo without dilution
“So we got a 80 lakhs loan under the CGT, MSC scheme.
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so we initially did not have to, you know, dilute our equity to raise some seed capital.”
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BigBasket launched Happilo across eight metro cities for a one-month exclusive
“So he told, okay, you give me one month exclusive launch for Big Basket.
I will launch you across all eight metro cities in India.”