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Oyo Ties with China’s E-Commerce Platform Meituan to List 8,000 Oyo Accommodations

OYO Hotels and Homes, the world’s sixth largest and fastest-growing chain of leased and franchised hotels, homes & living spaces, has today announced a year-long strategic partnership with Meituan, which is China's leading e-commerce platform for services and also an investor in Swiggy, India's biggest food delivery platform

In the first phase of the partnership, OYO Jiudian (Hotels), which is the largest single hotel brand in China and the second-largest hotel group in the country, will list 8,000 of its standardized accommodations on Meituan Hotels platform. This will further assist OYO Hotels in driving consumer traffic, data operations, and brand promotion.

OYO Jiudian is committed to creating quality living spaces using its full-scale fulfillment-led model, which allows it to achieve benchmark scale and efficiency that starts with supply acquisition, renovation, hospitality and operations, technology and omnichannel distribution across online and offline channels. Meituan Hotels, as a comprehensive accommodation service platform, offers consumers with a wide range of hotel accommodation options ranging from high-end to mass market to family-run and small boutique hotels. It is driven by the mission - “We help people eat better, live better".

This partnership combines OYO Jiudian’s capacities in innovative transformation, business development, management and operations with Meituan’s supplementary advantages in platform, open ecosystem, user base, traffic, and technological innovation. This will enable easy access to OYO’s standardized, trustworthy and affordable accommodations across the Middle Kingdom to all of Meituan’s wide user base.

Commenting on the partnership, Sam Shih, COO - OYO China said, “OYO Jiudian is fulfilling aspirations of millions of travellers by transforming the hospitality landscape and ensuring that great hospitality experiences are not only for the rich, but for everyone. We are proactively delivering on China’s focus on reforming the supply sector and are always open to partner with like-minded and customer-focused organizations that are contributing to the development of the travel and hospitality industry. Our partnership with Meituan is a reflection of our commitment to providing quality living spaces to consumers and creating higher value for small-and medium-sized standalone hotel owners across China."

Guo Qing, Vice President - Meituan Group, General Manager of Meituan Hotel, Meituan Ticketing and Meituan Vacation, said, “We have held strong the principles of opening up and achieving mutual wins. We wish to work with various kinds of partners to harness technological innovation and provide well-rounded services that satisfies our customers, thus creating better living experiences to consumers and generating higher values and generating better revenue for hotel partners."

OYO Jiudian is deeply committed towards ensuring that over 400 million middle-income population in the country has access to high-quality and affordable accommodation. Every day, over 3,00,000 heads are on OYO Jiudian pillows in China as it offers a great experience at a low cost. In a brief period of 1.6 years, it has strategically expanded its presence across tier 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 cities with a focus on hotels that are 80 rooms or less as that’s the whitespace not many hotel chains have addressed. Today, OYO Jiudian is present across 337 cities in China, including Hangzhou, Xian, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Xiamen, and Kunming, among others with 5,00,000 rooms as a part of its chain in the country.

As China's leading e-commerce platform for services, Meituan operates well-known mobile apps in China, including Meituan, Dianping, Meituan Waimai, Mobike and others. Meituan offers over 200 service categories, including catering, on-demand delivery, car-hailing, bike-sharing, hotel and travel booking, movie ticketing, and other entertainment and lifestyle services, and covers 2800 cities and counties across China. The total transaction amount of Meituan reached RMB 515.6 billion in 2018, with an increase of 44.3% over the same period of last year. The total annual numbers of transaction users and active online merchants of Meituan reached 400 million and 5.8 million in 2018, respectively.

Source - Newsvoir

Swiggy Raises $100 Mn In A Funding Led By Naspers and China's Meituan

Swiggy, India’s leading food ordering and delivery platform, announced today that it has raised USD 100 million in Series F funding, its largest round yet. Led by Naspers, a global internet and entertainment group, and one of the world’s largest technology investors, the Series also includes new investor Meituan-Dianping, China's largest service e-commerce platform.

Swiggy will use the freshly raised funds to introduce new products and services and further expand its supply chain business, New Supply, which launched late last year.

With the latest funding, Swiggy's has now raised total of $255 million till date, with a previous $70 million round also led by Naspers to launch Swiggy into markets across India. Part of that capital also went to acquire the gourmet Indian food startup 48East.

Sriharsha Majety, Swiggy’s chief executive, said in a statement, “With this funding, we will further invest in building differentiated offerings, plugging the white spaces in the ecosystem, and developing our technology while keeping superlative customer experience at the core.”

Previous investors in Swiggy include Harmony Partners, Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Softbank’s SAIF Partners.

Earlier this week, Swiggy launched its operations in Jaipur by roping in over 300 restaurants in the city.

The platform is now present in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh.

Swiggy has more than 20,000 restaurant partners across cities in the country. It was last valued at $400 million when Naspers led a $80-million investment in May 2017.

Incidentally, with this funding one can expect more cut throat competition in India's food delivery segment as Swiggy's biggest competitor Zomato has too recently raised whopping $200 million from Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial. Additionally, British food delivery unicorn startup Deliveroo entering the Indian market to heat up India's food delivery space.

Moreover, according to a report by Morgan Stanley, Gurgaon-based Zomato has shot up its valuation to US $2.5 billion, which is thrice of its last valuation.

Swiggy Raises $100 Mn In A Funding Led By Naspers and China's Meituan

Swiggy, India’s leading food ordering and delivery platform, announced today that it has raised USD 100 million in Series F funding, its largest round yet. Led by Naspers, a global internet and entertainment group, and one of the world’s largest technology investors, the Series also includes new investor Meituan-Dianping, China's largest service e-commerce platform.

Swiggy will use the freshly raised funds to introduce new products and services and further expand its supply chain business, New Supply, which launched late last year.

With the latest funding, Swiggy's has now raised total of $255 million till date, with a previous $70 million round also led by Naspers to launch Swiggy into markets across India. Part of that capital also went to acquire the gourmet Indian food startup 48East.

Sriharsha Majety, Swiggy’s chief executive, said in a statement, “With this funding, we will further invest in building differentiated offerings, plugging the white spaces in the ecosystem, and developing our technology while keeping superlative customer experience at the core.”

Previous investors in Swiggy include Harmony Partners, Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Softbank’s SAIF Partners.

Earlier this week, Swiggy launched its operations in Jaipur by roping in over 300 restaurants in the city.

The platform is now present in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh.

Swiggy has more than 20,000 restaurant partners across cities in the country. It was last valued at $400 million when Naspers led a $80-million investment in May 2017.

Incidentally, with this funding one can expect more cut throat competition in India's food delivery segment as Swiggy's biggest competitor Zomato has too recently raised whopping $200 million from Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial. Additionally, British food delivery unicorn startup Deliveroo entering the Indian market to heat up India's food delivery space.

Moreover, according to a report by Morgan Stanley, Gurgaon-based Zomato has shot up its valuation to US $2.5 billion, which is thrice of its last valuation.

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