BWI: Sundeep Malhotra, CEO and Founder, HomeShop18 awarded for “Excellence in Business Leadership”

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: HomeShop18
Friday, September 30, 2011 05:58 PM IST (12:28 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, People; Business: Information technology, Retailers; Technology
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Sundeep Malhotra, CEO and Founder, HomeShop18 awarded for "Excellence in Business Leadership"
Wins 'Excellence in Business Leadership Award' at The Asian Leadership Awards Forum 2011

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Friday, September 30, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- Sundeep Malhotra, CEO and Founder of India's largest virtual shopping destination, HomeShop18, has been recognized with the "Excellence in Business Leadership" award at The Asian Leadership Awards held on 25th September in Dubai. The Asian Leadership Awards recognizes business leaders from across Asia. The award recognized Sundeep Malhotra for his exemplary leadership qualities and applauded his achievements in the Indian retail sector.

Over the years, HomeShop18 has been committed to providing a superior shopping experience to its customers by continually creating benchmarks in customer services, product catalogs and strong logistics. It has partnered with the best brands, both nationally and internationally to provide superlative quality and exceptional value.

On being awarded with the "Excellence in Business Leadership" award, Sundeep Malhotra, CEO and Founder, HomeShop18, said, "It's an honor to accept this award. HomeShop18 is fortunate to have some of the smartest people, who collectively make our business successful through their hard work and dedication. We shall strive to keep the good work going and work towards upholding this honour."

HomeShop18 recently concluded Indian Retail Forum 2011, Homeshop18 was awarded as the Images Most Admired Retailer of The Year 2011. Homeshop18.com has also been recently in the news for its acquisition of the books portal www.coinjoos.com.

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 2.3 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.




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

KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, PEOPLE, IT, RETAIL, TECHNOLOGY

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