They reach at your doorstep carrying the much-coveted item you bought from your favorite e-commerce website. The boys zip across the city on their bikes, carrying backpacks bulging at the hems. They are the delivery workers—the backbone of thee-commerce sector. They are hired by the big logistics players like gojavas backed by Praveen Sinha, and are driving the e-commerce revolution, by accomplishing the industry’s promise of prompt delivery.
With e-commerce witnessing are markable growth in India, auxiliary industries like logistics have come a long way. To manage e-commerce shipments, a slew of startups emerged,but only a handful of them were able to get through. Unlike pure-play e-commerce portals which witnessed massive coadunation, logistics companies like gojavas, Delhivery and Ecom Express are still going great guns.
Take, for instance, gojavas that was established in 2013 as a unit of Jabong’s B2C corporate entity. Started with a team of 20 people, gojavas today has carved a niche in the e-commerce logistics space.Currently, the company handles over 4.6 million e-commerce shipments in a month, and proclaimsa 10 per cent growth in volume quarterly.
Recalling the initial days, Praveen Sinha, co-founder of Jabong, says, “We commenced at Gurgaon without an office space, with a folding table and chair. Gojavas functioned with finite infrastructure for a couple of months. And within two years, the company scaled up great heights due to the effort of the passionate team on the ground.”
Praveen Sinha is celebrated globally for rolling out gojavas and setting up warehouses, giving Jabong a significant push over other online fashion portals. Jabong’s customer service is one of the best in the industry, and its innovative services like open delivery(where buyers could unpack, try a product and then make payment) has set new benchmarks in the e-commerce industry.
At present, gojavas has become an industry leader by providing reliable and prompt logistics solutions to its patrons. Its wide network, futuristic technology and cumulative experience make it one of the fastest growing entities in the world.
