75k sellers on Meesho hit double digit growth
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New Delhi: Around 75,000 sellers achieved double-digit growth while over 20,000 sellers witnessed a 10-times jump in their business on Softbank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho, the company said on Sunday.
Meesho is the first unicorn e-commerce firm to have reported profit this year and it claims to have maintained the profitability since it first reported the performance in July. The company claimed that nearly 10,000 Meesho sellers crossed the Rs 1 crore sales mark and 130,000 registered sales of over Rs 1 lakh during 2023.
Around “60 per cent of these sellers come from small towns like Avinashi, Bharuch, Fiazabad and Silchar”, Meesho said. Meesho said that it added around 7 lakh new sellers this year taking the total number to 15 lakh this year. The company recorded transactions for 14 crore customers and claimed that nearly 80 per cent of the orders came from tier 2 and smaller markets. Meesho said that it recorded a unique pattern of customers placing maximum orders on Sunday.
