477/Numerous locations across the country to be covered by 12 RSA and 10 Eco-Inspector services provider
New Delhi, February 22, 2017:-Droom, India’s pioneering online automobile transactional marketplace, has given a boost to its allied services segment by signing up with some of the biggest service providers in the Road Side Assistance category, including Allianz Worldwide Partners. The move is expected to garner more traction and better customer experience for the online marketplace in this category.
This latest agreement assumes all the more importance as it was achieved after several meetings and intense negotiations. Along with this partnership, Droom has also signed up a number of regional sellers such as Road India (RSA-500 locations), Zaiuto and Gomgarage.
The partnerships have enabled Droom to cover 477 locations across the country where it can provide Road Side Assistance to its consumers, including the metropolitan cities of Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Pune.
Commenting on the agreement, Mr. Rishab Malik, CO –Founder and VP – Business Development, Droom said,” This is a major development that will impact the current fabric of the online automotive industry. With RSA being provided by brands such as Allianz Worldwide and other regional providers, confidence of car buyers from Droom will definitely enhance, leading to greater brand support. This agreement justifies and fulfills the brand valuation of all the service providers to the hilt. We are looking forward to earning huge success with this collaboration and further provide confidence in the buyers regarding the vehicles transacted by Droom.”
Droom currently has 12 partners in its RSA services provider channels and 10 partners providing Eco-inspector services. Droom’s RSA services will be available in cities including Vijayawada, Varanasi, Warangal, West Sikkim, Iruvannamalai, Trivandrum, Tiruchy, Srinagar, Rohtak, Rewari, Nagaon, Meerut, Guwahati, Ferozepur, Coimbatore, Bellary and Amravati. To avoid confusion due to the presence of multiple RSA service providers in a particular city, Droom, like a perfect marketplace, has given the customers complete freedom to choose a partner service provider without any bias or preference, thus empowering their buyers and bringing transparency in operations.
About Droom
Founded in April 2014 in Silicon Valley, droom is India’s first online marketplace to buy and sell new and used automobiles and automobile services. Droom has taken a completely innovative and disruptive approach to build trust and pricing advantages for buyers.
The current experience of buying and selling an automobile is completely broken, antiquated and full of pitfalls. Droom offers a truly 21st century experience in buying and selling automobiles. With its technology driven marketplace approach, droom enables transactions between buyers and sellers by bringing transparency, building trust, and mitigating information asymmetry. Droom is a mobile first marketplace with a presence on three platforms i.e. Android, iOS and Desktop.
Droom is among the fastest growing consumer Internet companies in India with 94k+ B2C sellers, 25k+ products, 121k+ listings, 5,900cr.+ in listed GMV, 3.7Mil+ FB Community members (highest for any automobile community in India) and over 4.4Mil+ downloads for mobile apps.
Droom has a very strong and proven founding team with 50 years of combined experience in technology, Internet, E-commerce and FMCG including 20 years in Silicon Valley. Sandeep Aggarwal is founder of Droom. Prior to Droom, Sandeep founded ShopClues.com, India’s first and largest managed marketplace and 5th Unicorn in the Consumer Internet in India. Droom has a team of 200+ and is funded by some of the leading global venture investors.