Friday, December 14, 2012

BWI: Basicslife Achieves Record Sales with Google India's Great Online Shopping Festival

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: BasicsLife
Friday, December 14, 2012 05:20 PM IST (11:50 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment, Fashion, Lifestyle, People; Business: Business services, Clothing & accessories, Information technology, Retailers; Technology
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Basicslife Achieves Record Sales with Google India's Great Online Shopping Festival


Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Friday, December 14, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- The popular menswear online store, Basicslife.com recorded a 120% sales increase on the day of the Great online shopping festival (GOSF), making it the ecommerce site's largest retail day in history. Basicslife received online orders from 80 cities and towns across India.

GOSF is an attempt to recreate the traffic and sales of 'Cyber Monday' in the US, when online retailers offer deep discounts and deals to boost their festive sales.

Speaking on the occasion, Suhail Sattar, Director, Hasbro Clothing said, "We are very excited to partner with google and encourage events like this. The results of GOSF have reinforced our faith in Google advertising as our best performing medium for customer acquisition."

Highlights from the weeklong shopping period, December 5th to December 12th, 2012:

More than 40% of the orders were placed by new customers.

50% increase in conversion rate across the site.

Over the last decade, Basicslife retail stores have spread across 90 outlets. The brand has presence in over 600 multi-brand outlets across India and the world, apart from being available on the leading lifestyle and fashion portals such as Myntra and Jabong. Though Hasbro clothing has a store retail background , the company's digital marketing focus in 2012 has established Basicslife.com as a major ecommerce player in the men's fashion segment.

Commenting on the initiative, Abhishek Agarwal, Co-founder & COO, Kapsica Media, the Digital Media agency managing Google advertising for BasicsLife said, "The web is becoming a more significant part of the traditional brick-and-mortar holiday shopping season. BasicsLife being one of the fastest growing exclusive menswear brand for the youth is seeing a tremendous surge in traffic. GOSF has added a lot of momentum to the entire marketing initiatives we have in pipeline for BasicsLife in the days to come. "



CONTACT DETAILS
Y.Chandra sekhar, BasicsLife, +91 9025473629, marketing-support@hasbroclothing.com

KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, FASHION, LIFESTYLE, PEOPLE, BUSINESS SERVICES, CLOTHING, IT, RETAIL, TECHNOLOGY

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