BWI: Images Retail Forum Awards Homeshop18 as “Images Most Admired Retailer of the Year 2011”

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: HomeShop18
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 05:35 PM IST (12:05 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, People; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Household & personal care products & services, Media & entertainment, Retailers
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Images Retail Forum Awards Homeshop18 as "Images Most Admired Retailer of the Year 2011"
Wins the award for Images Most Admired Retailer of The Year: Non store retail

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- HomeShop18, India's largest virtual shopping company, has been awarded Images Most Admired Retailer of The Year, 2011 at the 8th edition of the India Retail Forum, 2011 held on 21st and 22nd September in Mumbai. The award recognizes and celebrates the retailer offering various product lines through non-store retail platforms like e-commerce websites, electronic media channels, catalogues etc.

HomeShop18's ecommerce portal www.homeshop18.com and television has association with more than 450 brands and over 10 Million SKUs reaching over 3000 cities and towns in India.

Over the years, HomeShop18 has emerged as the favourite shopping destination for customers in India. Homeshop18 has partnered with the best brands, such as Nokia, Reebok, Lee, Canon, Samsung, Whirlpool, Videocon, Spice and many more to provide great quality and exceptional value.

On being awarded with the "Images Most Admired Retailer of The Year" award, an ecstatic Sundeep Malhotra, CEO, HomeShop18, said, "It's an honor for HomeShop18 to receive this award second time in a row. It has been our constant endeavor to offer a superior shopping experience to our customers with the right quality products. We will continue to innovate and set new benchmarks for ourselves in serving our customers."

HomeShop18 today is acknowledged as the pioneers in the virtual retail industry. HomeShop18 currently has a large CRM base of 6.1 million and gets over 2.4 Million unique visitors per month.

About HomeShop18:

HomeShop18 is Network18 group's online and television retail marketing and distribution venture.

HomeShop18.com is India's fastest growing e-commerce website (traffic growing at the rate of 300% YoY) with a monthly reach of over 1.7 million unique visitors, each spending over 7 minutes (avg.) on the website. It is today ranked as the largest e-commerce sites (B2C e-commerce, Shopping Cart sites) in the country, in terms of % share of transactions. (Source: ViziSense, Period - Jan to June, 2011)

Adding a new customer every 6 seconds, HomeShop18's robust distribution set-up helps it reach out to over 3000 cities across the country. HomeShop18 offers a complete product range across all major categories; including digital, fashion & lifestyle, beauty products, jewellery, kitchen essentials, home & furnishings, kids' gear, books and many more. HomeShop18 has partnered with more than 500 established brands and marquee labels such as Reebok, Lee, Peter England, Nokia, Canon, Samsung, Whirlpool, Videocon, Spice and Sia among many others, giving its millions of customers over 70 lakh products to choose from.

HomeShop18's 6.1 million CRM base is supported by a trained and customer focused 24X7 call centre manned by 750 executives catering to over 35,000 calls a day.

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Sundeep Malhotra, CEO, HomeShop18 receives the renowned award "The Most Admired Retailer of The Year, 2011" at the India Retail Forum, 2011
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Sundeep Malhotra, CEO, HomeShop18 receives the renowned award "The Most Admired Retailer of The Year, 2011" at the India Retail Forum, 2011


CONTACT DETAILS
Siddharth Bijpuria, PR Pundit, +91 8800922828, siddharth.b@prpundit.com
Ritika Kashyap, PR Pundit, +91 9654283809, ritika.k@prpundit.com
Soumya Chandran, HomeShop18, +91 9811376648, soumya.chandran@network18online.com

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