ShopClues.com, India’s first and the largest managed marketplace launched Official Brand Stores after more than 12 months of running the program in beta. First Official Brand Store at ShopClues was launched in January 2012 and today the number stand close to 200. Official Brand Stores includes brands having their own online store at ShopClues.com or a dealer/distributor specially authorized by the brands to run official brand store at ShopClues.com. Brands like Whirlpool, Videocon, Shahnaz Herbal, Micromax, Sony, Kent RO now have their own brand stores at ShopClues.
“While ShopClues has over 2,000 brands sold by 7,000+ merchants including dealers, distributors, franchise holders, and resellers of these 2,500 brands — the 200 Official Brand Stores at ShopClues is the largest line-up of official brands store online in India”, said Sandeep Aggarwal, Founder & CEO of ShopClues.com.
On one hand India is a low-trust market and on other hand thousand of brands do not have online presence. For buyers, Official Brand Stores means higher trust, great selection, and transparent pricing. For brands, they can focus on brand building and all other things they do for living and leave the hassle of E-Commerce i.e. E-Commerce technology, digital marketing, payments, delivery, and customer support on ShopClues.com.
Ankit Shrivastava, Asst. General Manager at Next Retail India Limited (E-commerce Division of Videocon) said, “Being a part of ShopClues has been great for us. We started a few months back and have been seeing great response.”
“We are very excited to be part of ShopClues.com platform. We started our online store at ShopClues a few months back and have been seeing great response, “said Sapna Lohani, E-Commerce Business, Whirlpool Of India Ltd.
“ShopClues gave us an end-to-end solution to start selling online that allows us to focus on our core competencies, It is great to find a company that cares and does the right thing, “ said Anuj Seth- Digital Marketing Manager KENT RO SYSTEMS LTD.
Sanjay Kadam, Online sales manager at Jaipan said, “ShopClues.com processes and infrastructure reflect the thought and effort that has gone into every service and process. It doesn’t feel like they have been around for just a year. Their infrastructure, support system, back team are best in their category. We are very happy to work with ShopClues.com.”
Some of the brands having their Official Brand Store at ShopClues are Sony, Toshiba, Nokia, Panasonic, HCL, Kingston, Arrow, HTC, Philips, Sunflame, Jaipan, Inalsa, JBL, Kent RO, Whirlpool, Videocon, Morphy Richards, Videocon, Alcatel, Giordano, Sieko, Vox, Swipe Telecom, Park Avenue, Galileo, Cavinkare, Ferns N Petals, Maxima, Titan, Citizen etc.