Bigbasket

BigBasket is an Indian online grocery delivery service.[3] The company primarily delivers grocery goods found in convenience stores, home essentials and food supplies to its customers. bigBasket was founded in December 2011 and has its headquarters in Bangalore, India.[4][5]

BigBasket
BigBasket
TypePrivate
IndustryRetail
Founded2011
Founders
  • Hari Menon
  • V.S. Sudhakar
  • Vipul Parekh
  • Abhinay Choudhari
  • V.S. Ramesh
Headquarters
Bangalore
Area served
India
ServicesGrocery Delivery
ParentSupermarket Grocery Supplies Pvt Ltd
Websitewww.bigbasket.com
Footnotes / references
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History

bigbasket company was founded by V S Sudhakar, Hari Menon, Vipul Parekh, Abhinay Choudhari and V S Ramesh in 2011.[6] In 2011 they launched bigbasket online grocery delivery service.[7][8][9]

In March 2020, they acquired micro-delivery firm, DailyNinja.[10][11]

Controversy

In October 2020 bigbasket faced a data breach that affected the data of over 2 crore customers which includes email IDs, full names, IP addresses.[12] Later as per Cybersecurity firm the database was on sale on the dark web.[13]

References
  1. "Terms and Conditions". bigbasket.com. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  2. Saritha Rai. "How Bigbasket founders, a squad of dotcom survivors, are battling Jeff Bezos in India". Livemint. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  3. Kar, Sanghamitra; Shrivastava, Aditi (2020-06-02). "BigBasket, Grofers, other e-grocery firms see rise in non-metro users". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  4. Bureau, Our (21 April 2020). "Covid-19 lockdown: Bigbasket starts to raise funds". @businessline. Hindubusiness.
  5. Chakravarti, Ankita. "Coronavirus: Flipkart to resume grocery delivery, BigBasket too coming online, 10 key updates about food and online delivery". India Today (march 26 2020). India today.
  6. "Startup story: How a bunch of dotcom bust survivors built BigBasket". Hindustan Times. 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  7. Andreasen, Alan R (1995). Strategic Marketing For Nonprofit Organizations, 7e. Pearson. pp. 274, 275. ISBN 978-93-534-3503-5. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  8. Alawadhi, Neha (2 April 2020). "Covid-19 lockdown: Uber, BigBasket partner for essential service delivery". Business Standard India. Businessstandard.
  9. Peermohamed, Alnoor (2020-05-22). "BigBasket, Grofers, others may clock $3 billion sales". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  10. Shrivastava, Aditi. "BigBasket buys micro delivery startup DailyNinja - ETtech" (24 March 2020). Economic times. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  11. Bansal, Varsha (19 October 2018). "BigBasket completes three acquisitions". The Economic Times. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  12. "TOP 8 DATA BREACHES that happened during COVID pandemic - FULL LIST". Zee Business. 2020-12-17. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
  13. Quint, The (2020-11-09). "FAQ: As A BigBasket User What Should You Do After the Data Breach?". TheQuint. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
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