BWI: Homeshop18 Expands its Reach to Over 50 mn Households Across the Country

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: HomeShop18
Wednesday, June 08, 2011 03:00 PM IST (09:30 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment; Business: Information technology, Media & entertainment, Telecommunications; Technology
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Homeshop18 Expands its Reach to Over 50 mn Households Across the Country
Announces Tie-up With SUN Direct

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 08, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- India's first and the leading home shopping channel, HomeShop18 today announced tie-up with the leading DTH (Direct-to-Home) service provider, SUN Direct to expand its reach across nation. The current tie-up has been strategically formulated to strengthen the distribution and cater to a larger audience with a key focus on the southern markets.

The Indian DTH market is witnessing a strong growth and is expected to attract a large number of subscribers in near future. It is witnessing aggressive subscriber acquisition from the rural areas, small towns and three tier cities. The DTH subscriber base in the country is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 14% during 2011-2013 to reach 35.7 Million by 2013 (Source: RNCOS latest research report). Out of 6-7 major players in Indian DTH market, HomeShop18 is already available on five leading players - Airtel Digital TV, Big TV, Dish TV, Sun Direct and Videocon D2H and covers maximum DTH subscriber base.

Recent tie up with Sun Direct reaching over 6.7 million households will facilitate HomeShop18 to strengthen its reach across India, especially in Southern markets, making a good footing in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. To cater to the customers from these cities, HomeShop18 is expanding its call centre operations to handle calls in different languages and growing its logistics reach in order to sustain its promises to it customers of free home deliveries, money back guarantee etc. Now customers of Sun Direct will be able to shop from a wide range of products from home & kitchen, mobiles, electronics, home appliances, toys, beauty products and many more, without stepping out of home.

Speaking on the association, Mr. Sundeep Malhotra, CEO HomeShop18 said "Today, HomeShop18 is the name synonymous with value shopping in India. We receive calls from over 3000 cities and towns in India and we are happy to extend our services further to the viewers of Sun Direct across the country. Expanding our reach will help us break language barriers and provide a superior home shopping experience. And, what better way to expand than to tie up with leading DTH player Sun Direct, adding over 6.7 million households to our existing reach."

Adding to this, Mr. Mahesh Kumar, CEO Sun Direct said, "This association reaffirms our commitment to deliver value to our customers. This tie-up will help us bring a world-class home shopping concept offering a wide variety of products and services that our customers can pick and choose without having to move out of home".

HomeShop18 offers amazing value propositions with more than 450 brands and 150000 SKUs, gives cash on delivery option and free shipping in over 3000 cities across India. Now customers of Sun Direct can avail exciting range of products and services offered at HomeShop18. For details on HomeShop18 TV shows and its various products, call 1800-1800-918 Toll-free or log on to www.homeshop18.com and pick great deals.

About HomeShop18

HomeShop18 is the Network18 Group's online & on-air retail marketing and distribution venture which launched India's first 24 hour Home Shopping TV channel on April 9 2008. HomeShop18 is India's first comprehensive virtual retail business, operating in a multimedia environment including television, web, catalogue and other media to reach high quality products and services directly to customers across the country.

HomeShop18 has partnered with the best brand owners, such as Reebok, Lee, Fabindia, Samsung, Whirlpool, Videocon, Nokia, Spice and many more to provide superlative quality and exceptional value. HomeShop18 is committed to providing a delightful and dependable customer experience, through entertaining and outstanding content on TV & the Web and its high quality captive customer sales centre. Its customer-centric practices, including free home delivery, multiple payment options and 15 days 'no questions' asked replacement guarantee make shopping with HomeShop18 a smarter and a more convenient experience.

About Sun Direct Pvt. Ltd.

Sun Direct is the second largest and the fastest growing DTH player in the country with a current subscriber base of over 6.7 million. The first to introduce MPEG technology, HDTV, ala carte package and many more innovations which have become industry standard. Its 'Think National - Go Regional' strategy packed with the superior & innovative technology, value for money pricing, attractive bundling of products and services that appeal to every segment of the customer chain makes it a vibrant and consumer-centric DTH brand.


CONTACT DETAILS
Siddharth Bijpuria, HomeShop18, +91 9881552856, siddharth.b@prpundit.com
Ritika Kashyap, HomeShop18, +91 9654283809, ritika.k@prpundit.com
Neha Rameja, HomeShop18, +91 9818267483, neha.rameja@network18online.com

KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, IT, MEDIA, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY

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