Ekart

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Ekart
Smart logistics [1]
Industry Courier
Founded2009;14 years ago (2009) [1]
Founder Flipkart
Headquarters,
Area served
3800+ pin codes in India [1]
Key people
Neeraj Aggarwal (Vice President) [2]
Kalyan Krishnamurthy (CEO) [3]
Products Delivery, express mail, third-party logistics [1]
Website www.ekartlogistics.com

Ekart logistics or Ekart courier is an Indian courier delivery services company, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. [1] [4] A subsidiary of electronic commerce company Flipkart Pvt. Ltd., it is run by Instakart services Pvt. Ltd. [5] [6]

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Ekart delivers around 10 million shipments a month. [1] As of 2015, Ekart shipped 85 percent of products ordered on Flipkart. [7]

Klick2Shop Logistics Services International, a Singapore-based company, invested Rs.1641 crore in Ekart in October 2017. [8] [9]

Background

Ekart was taken over by Flipkart from WS Retail Services. [10] [11]

Locker services in stores and supermarkets running for all hours were introduced first in the country by Ekart. [2] [12]

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