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Jiffie.in, an Express Logistics Marketplace, Expands Further to More CitiesBANGALORE, July 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Jiffie.in, a marketplace for international express logistics, has expanded to more cities and is now operational in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Chennai apart from Bangalore, where it is headquartered. The primary offering is designed to simplify the process of booking and sending couriers or parcels for retail and SME customers. It enables them to book couriers and parcels in less than six clicks after comparing a host of reputed services by cost, delivery time or user ratings. For service providers, it gives them a reach much beyond the local coverage, which they have had but without any additional marketing expenses. Industry analysts estimate that SMEs and retail customers spend anywhere between 2-6 hours on research and ground work before placing an order, most of the time being spent on information gathering, as seen earlier. All this inefficiency is primarily due to information asymmetry and supply-demand mismatch. Both the problems can be solved by a marketplace portal and Jiffie.in is one of the leading portals, which solves the problem in a very effective manner. Technology can play a very significant role in closing the gap in this multibillion dollar sector. According to an industry report from CRISIL in 2012, express logistics was estimated to be a ~USD $3 billion (INR 1,500 crore), growing at a double-digit growth Y-o-y, making it one of the fastest growing sectors. It will be a pity if these problems remain unattended or unresolved. The founding team (Anshu, Ramki and Aniruddha - alumni of IIM-B and with individual industry experience of almost two decades) saw this as a great opportunity and tapped into it immediately. The fact that they won an award in the same institute while pitching the concept was an icing on the cake and further bolstered their dreams to bringing the concept to fruition. "We are not only excited about this expansion and vast opportunity ahead of us, but also the way technology is playing a role in completely morphing customer experience for a common man in shipping worldwide," says Ramakrishnan R. Seshagiri, Co-founder & CEO of MarkEffy Technologies. Launched in November 2015, the company has already grown by leaps and bounds registering an average q-o-q growth of greater than 100%. Apart from acquiring hundreds of customers, they have helped them experience a new way of shipping to more than 200 countries in the most technology-enabled and efficient manner. The company intends to expand not just its geographical presence but also broaden its offerings significantly. About MarkEffy Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Co-Founded by three IIM-Bangalore alumni, each of them with roughly over 20 years of experience in large companies, MarkEffy Technologies Pvt. Ltd is a technology start-up that aims to iron out inefficiencies in very traditional industries and sectors. Market inefficiency could be due to price distortion, operational inefficiencies or just information asymmetry. Our first service offering launched is 'Jiffie.in'. We take pride in the fact that our start-up was selected as part of the NASSCOM 10,000 start-ups, and has also been named in 'Exhibit Hottest 100 Tech Start-ups in India' in February 2016. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jiffie.in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/markeffy-technologies Twitter: https://twitter.com/jiffie_in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Jiffiein Google+: https://www.google.com/+JiffieIn Media Contact : 
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