"A Case Study of Swiggy and Zomato": King'S College, Jalna Project Report On
"A Case Study of Swiggy and Zomato": King'S College, Jalna Project Report On
"A Case Study of Swiggy and Zomato": King'S College, Jalna Project Report On
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A CASE STUDY OF SWIGGY AND ZOMATO
CONTENTS
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Chapter 1-INTRODUCTION 01-03
1. INTRODUCTION
2. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
3. SCOPE OF THE STUDY
4. METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY
5. LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
1. LITERATURE REVIEW
1. MARKETING INSIGHTS
2. ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS MODEL
3. MARKETING-MIX STRATEGIES(4P’S)
4. PRICING STRATEGIES
1. CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
Instant noodles or last night’s leftovers? What for? There’s no doubt that food tech
startups have transformed the way urban India eats. All you need to do is whip out
your phone and order what you like from platforms like Swiggy, Zomato.
In this case study, the potential of a growing market in the one of the largest
economies in the world is analyzed. Grocery shopping, meal planning and cooking
is now considered a chore by a good proportion of the growing Indian middle class,
causing a surge in demand for services that free them of such inconveniences.
Upwards of 50,000 restaurants in India provide home delivery, and are often only
able to see marginal profits from their take-away sectors. This indicates a high
potential in a relatively untapped market.
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e food 1.0
b) Fast Food 2.0: These services opt for a full integration of the process: An in-
house app is developed where consumers can order a limited range of meals. These
meals are reheated in their own fleet of cars as orders come in, and delivered in
about 15-20 minutes. Here, choice is given the backseat in favor of convenience.
These services are yet to catch footing in India, but command a growing market
share in North America (Sprig, Maple, SpoonRocket etc).
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
After a deep analysis and research for 4 months in this study we will be covering
the following:
1. different marketing strategies and statistics of both the company
2. finally draw a comparison in terms of marketing strategies between them
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:
Primary data was collected from various people and their opinion and
information for the specific purposes of study helped to run the analysis. In
essence, the questions asked were tailored to elicit the data that will help for study.
The data was collected through questionnaire to understand their experience and
preference towards their loyal company.
Secondary data was collected from various sources such as different business
websites and published papers.
A variety of quality tools have been applied to the problem of interest. The study
starts with a Marketing Insights of Both The Companies that outlines the features
of both the giant food-tech market in India. A comparison of business models is
done qualitatively and the marketing mix strategies of both the companies are
compared. These tools are used in conjunction to develop a set of conclusion for
the industry.
CHAPTER-2
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
“While online kitchen businesses will raise money and continue to grow, the
real battle and fight will be between players like Zomato and Swiggy,”.
“food has been one of the largest segments in India’s retail sector, valued at
$490 billion in 2013. The Indian food retail market is expected to reach Rs 61
lakh crore ($894.98 billion) by 2021”.
digital restaurant uses smart phones to take customer orders. PDA interface was
replaced with smart phones to provide customer user interface to view menu or
track their orders. With secured login system, customers have the facility to view
menu, place orders, track their orders, receive real time updates and make online
payment and collect receipts from smart phone itself increasing customer
comfort.
CHAPTER-3
COMPANY PROFILE
Swiggy Founders:
Swiggy was founded by Nandan Reddy, Sriharsha Majety, and Rahul Jaimini in
August 2014. Nandan Reddy aged 29 and Sriharsha Majety aged 31 both are both
alumni of Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani while Rahul
Jaimini aged 31 is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur.
Swiggy Journey:
Swiggy began its Journey from Bengaluru with six delivery executives and 25
restaurants on its platform. In the time of 3 years, it has scaled up with over 6,000
delivery executives across India in more than 8 cities like Delhi-NCR, Mumbai,
Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, and Pune.
Swiggy Funding:
Swiggy is backed by one of best investors available in the market. Swiggy has
raised a total of 75.5 million dollars in funding from various investors, including
Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture, Accel Partners, SAIF Partners,
Harmony Venture Partners, RB Investments and Apoletto.
The business model of Swiggy is purely based upon hyperlocal on-demand food
delivery business operations. Swiggy lists out restaurants on its application and
also organizes delivery partners who deliver the food within 30 minutes on-
demand.
Key Activities:
a. Establishing partnerships with restaurants, eateries, and retail shops
b. Managing delivery providers (full-time/part-time)
c. Marketing of services and acquiring a customer
d. Management of orders
e. Management of technical operations
f. Management of payment process
g. Handling customer concerns
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Swiggy is very simple to use- You look up the restaurants based on location, your
order, add coupon code if you have any, track your order and after the order gets
delivered you can rate the food and the delivery guy.
Swiggy Competitors:
Indian food delivery market is valued at 15 billion dollars and set for an
exponential growth. Food delivery has become a very competitive market in India.
Swiggy is in direct competition with major on-demand food aggregators like
Zomato. Whereas there are other
Zomato Founder
Vision
Success Factor:
Zomato works with keen interest on various strategies to achieve their goal. It
includes
The Business model of Zomato is hugely different from its contemporaries Swiggy
and Foodpanda. They focus on the entire experience of the user which is all of us
and the businesses which are the restaurants we order from.
The Business model of Zomato is a well-orchestrated plan which consists of
various aspects for the smooth functioning of the application. Following are some
of the critical elements of Zomato-
a. Restaurant Listings / Advertising
b. Food Delivery
c. Subscription Programmes
d. Live Events
e. White Label Access
f. Zomato Kitchens
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CHAPTER-4
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
Indian consumer, which has caused a lot of consumers to flock to the company.
Others in this segment have not been able to do so, often getting lost in the
competitive sector. Similarly, an advertisement of delivery within 37 minutes is a
differentiating factor for them in this space.
Swiggy Express: An initiative (in the pilot stage) that aims to deliver food
within 15-20 minutes. Precooked food from partner restaurants is put into hot
boxes and on receipt of the order, is dispatched directly, making sure hot food
reaches the customer within 15-20 minutes. This reaches out to a
market of consumers that prefer quicker deliveries.
their data updates go up in multiples for the top 40% of restaurants. This led
to a cut in about 60% of their content teams across the world." Over-hire is a
common money-pit in early startup culture, in part due to investor pressure
and wild business projections. This hire-and-fire culture has left a sour
aftertaste in the food-tech community. Figure 5 shows the employee strength
of the two companies.
STRATEGY:
SWIGGY ZOMATO
1. Delivery Based Model 1. Deep presence in Social Media
2. Focused on consolidation rather than especially in Facebook,Twitter and
expansion. Pinterest.
3. Delivery Free. 2. They follow the policy “CONTEXT
4. Slightly high tax rate. IS KING”.
5. High commission rate:20% 3. Keeping customers engaged by some
6. Acquire small startups like helpful conversation.
grabyourbite. 4. Heavy investment in SEO’s and
SMO’s and has always make the
conscious decision of improving it’s
UI and also moving towards a more
social food platform.
5. It has been a Customer Focused
Organization.
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
1. Quick Delivery.
2. Good Brand Image. 1. Location based restaurant finder.
3. Trained Delivery personnel’s. 2. Marketing, branding awareness.
4. Responsive customer support. 3. Delivery charge for orders below
5. Wide range of restaurants Rs.250.
offered. 4. Menu and app price may vary.
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OPPORTUNITY THREATS
STRENGTH WEAKNESS
1. Unique ideas for each new entrant. 1. Security issues for the app
2. It is the first mover in many of the 2. Still a lot of expansion required
nations where it is establishing itself. 3. Besides such apps, in many places
3. Fast Expansion. word of mouth still trumps apps and at
4. Fantastic design of the app. the same time, Facebook check-ins are
5. The brand has a very focused approach a strong competitor wherein people
and has always tried to bring the most might not need Zomato.
of out of its unique offering
OPPORTUNITY THREATS
1. Further expansion. 1. Large number of competitors
2. More acquisitions 2. Presence of large established players
3. Cloud restaurants with substantial market shares.
3. Lack of proper tip ups as it is a costly
process.
The SWOT analysis reveals that the biggest weakness of a growing market of
food startups in India is the low margins per order. The costs associated with food
packaging and delivery are increasing by the day, but increasing costs to
consumer means losing market share in a competitive marketplace. Customer
retention is a big challenge for the future, which can be achieved only with
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innovation. The primary opportunity here is the demographic these models appeal
to. Most of the Indian food structure is disorganized and do not adhere to any food
standards. Such marketplaces appeal to a growing urban middle class, which
forms both a source of strength and opportunity. Long term scalability and
sustainability should be the key focus alongside innovation.
SWIGGY ZOMATO
PRODUCT
SWIGGY ZOMATO
Swiggy is one of the popular delivery Zomato provides its users with
companies that supplies ordered food restaurant search information and
and beverage items to its customers. It reviews that will enable one to make an
has created a single window and informed decision in regard to the choice
included a wide range of food parlors of restaurant. Menu images are offered
and restaurants under its umbrella. A to customers, especially for those
customer now can make a choice from restaurants that aren’t running their own
visual menus of restaurants in websites. In general, their services
neighborhood and order online. The include POS Systems, Restaurant Search
company has estimated seven hundred & Discovery, White label Apps, Table
and fifty restaurants on its platform and Reservations & Management and online
receives nearly seventy thousand orders ordering services. The company lists at
on monthly basis. least 1.5 million restaurants across the
almost 25 countries where it is present.
Other products include “Citibank
Zomato Restaurant Guide”- a print
version of its website content which it
launched in 2012 in collaboration with
India’s largest bank Citibank.
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PRICE
SWIGGY ZOMATO
Swiggy has an extensive workforce and Zomato doesn’t charge restaurants for
this flexibility prompts it to allow its putting their restaurant information on
customer a policy of no minimum the Zomato page. However, it doesn’t
order. This has increased its customer mean that the restaurants won’t
base to a great deal. Swiggy was able to ultimately pay anything. There are
raise 2 million dollars in Series A three basic revenue generation avenues
funding from Accel Partners and SAIF or sources namely: advertisements
Partners. During Series B it raised 16.5 (sponsor ads & banner ads), restaurant
million dollars funding from an booking and event ticketing. Event
undisclosed investment firm and ticketing is where tickets for special
Norwest Venture Partners. Swiggy has events are sold through the site
tie-ups with restaurants that offer a basically for large scale events or
minimum of 15% to 25% commission parties. Restaurant booking or online
and this has helped it in increasing its ordering is charged at between 7.5%
distributive channel and garnering and 15% of the sales depending on the
better revenues. It also charges a priority category of the restaurant.
minimum delivery fee from its
customer irrespective of a small or high
amount order.
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PLACE
SWIGGY ZOMATO
Swiggy has spread its presence to few Zomato is an online search site that can
cities in India like Bengaluru, Gurgaon, be accessed by native users of
Pune, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Windows Phones, Universal Windows
Kolkata and Mumbai. It has its Platform i.e. Windows 10 and
headquarters base at Bengaluru in Windows 10 Mobile, Android users,
Karnataka and has established its iOS, and watchOS. It is currently
corporate offices at Hyderabad in available for use in about 23 countries
Telangana and Gurgaon in Haryana. It including India, Canada, Chile,
is a popular app that takes order for Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, New
food delivery from listed restaurants on Zealand, Lebanon, the United
its portal. Swiggy has set up a strong Kingdom, Ireland, Czech Republic,
and widespread distribution network to Italy, Sri Lanka, Poland, Turkey,
offer prompt and best results. Slovakia, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa,
the USA as well as Australia among
Swiggy has hired Shadow fax
Technologies, a third-party delivery others. Today, the site receives a
flooded traffic of about 90 million
company, for part-time distribution in
visits every month. Products are
Delhi and Bengaluru.
available in about ten languages
namely: English, Italian, Slovak,
Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Polish,
Indonesian and Slovak.
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PROMOTION
SWIGGY ZOMATO
Swiggy realizes the importance of a Zomato is credited for being one of the
good marketing strategy and has adopted few brands to have become successful in
several plans to create further brand content marketing. One of their content
awareness. It relies heavily on mouth marketing strategy, in fact, the main
publicity and satisfied customers is its strategy, is the vast use of images to
greatest advertising tools as they promote their products.Zomato’s content
recommend the brand to friends and is also always fresh, with the old
family. Swiggy has adopted online message being delivered with unique
marketing strategy and has taken help of approaches. Zomato has thus more than
social media platforms like Twitter, just preached about being unique but has
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and also proven so. The company has
Pinterest via innovative and interesting invested vastly on SEO and SME’s. The
ad campaigns like #SingWithSwiggy use of the social media to promote
and #DiiwaliGhayAayi.The company Zomato has also played an important
runs contests to encourage direct role in making the company popular.
participation by customers through Their posts on social media are always
#SwiggyTuesdays and offers to munch just some simple industry jargons that
bag and coupons as rewards. Ahead of help attract the different audience
its launch in Mumbai city, it partnered segments. All their posts and promotions
with popular Dabbawalas of Mumbai to prove that the company always sticks to
get a better grasp of the situation and the niche and also understands exactly
later used it as a promotional strategy to who it is catering to.
gain brand exposure.
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4. PRICING STRATEGIES:
ZOMATO SWIGGY
Price, discounts Grab On 4 Coupons 23 Coupons
and allowances Coupons
Promotional First time orders Get 15% off on the User will get a
Pricing first order with the cashback of 20%
code EATIN when on the first Swiggy
you pay online. order paid via
paytm or up to
Rs.75
Differentiated Delivery Charges No delivery Swiggy charges a
Pricing Charges delivery fee on 30-
35% on the orders
it delivers. The
company chargers
Rs.30-40 on orders
below Rs.250 or
Rs.300,which
varies across
different cities
Night Delivery Nil Rs.30 after 11pm
Charges
Setting the Price From the 10% on the 15-20% on the
restaurants ordered value order value placed.
placed.
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CHAPTER-5
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION:
Marketing strategy is the section of your business plan that outlines your
overall game plan for finding clients and customers for your business.
Marketing strategy focuses on what you want to achieve for your
business and marketing efforts. Marketing plan details how you'll
achieve those goals.
The four Ps of marketing: product, price, place and promotion. The
marketing mix can be divided into four groups of variables commonly
known as the four Ps: Product: The goods and/or services offered by a
company to its customers. Price: The amount of money paid by
customers to purchase the product.