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Sodexo Joins Hands With BigBasket to Simplify Day-to-day Grocery Shopping This New Year
[January 09, 2018]

Sodexo Joins Hands With BigBasket to Simplify Day-to-day Grocery Shopping This New Year


MUMBAI, January 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

3 million+ daily Sodexo consumers can now use the Sodexo Meal Card to shop for food on BigBasket 

Sodexo, the leader in employee motivation and benefits services, welcomes 2018 with one more e-commerce partnership. The Sodexo Meal Card can now be used to shop for fresh and packed food & beverages on bigbasket.com, India's largest online grocery store. With an aim to ease the everyday food shopping experience for their 3 million+ daily users, Sodexo has joined hands with BigBasket to enable the acceptance of the Sodexo Meal Card on BigBasket.com. The Meal Card users can now shop for food and non-alcoholic beverages on BigBasket.com.

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Sodexo caters to a large consumer base of millennials; this partnership empowers them with a wide variety of choice. These millennials can be rest assured that their food and grocery delivery will be taken care of once they place their order through the BigBasket platform and pay using their Sodexo Meal Card.

Stephane Michelin, CEO Sodexo Benefits and Rewards, explained, "Sodexo's focus in the past year in India has been about enhancing the consumer experience of our users. In our endeavour to completely digitize our solutions, we have partnered with various best-in-class solution providers. The partnership with BigBasket was a specific request from our consumers who are short on time and seek convenience. With this partnership, Sodexo ill enable quick, hassle-free payments for the large base of 3 million daily consumers who can enjoy shopping on the go and be assured of secured transactions across web and app platforms of BigBasket."



Hari Menon, CEO of BigBasket said, "This is a critical partnership for BigBasket to ensure customer satisfaction and delight. In their offline avatar, Sodexo meal vouchers formed a substantial part of customer payments towards grocery purchases on BigBasket. With Sodexo going digital, it fits in even more seamlessly with the BigBasket online platform."

About Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services India: 


The Sodexo group works towards improving the quality of daily life for employees, partners and customers across the world. Sodexo BRS, India's No.1 Employee Motivation & Benefits Services provider is a partner to over 11,000+ HR Leaders. Our 100% tax-compliant Digital Employee Benefit Solutions are customized to meet specific needs of organizations and help them develop their best motivated workforce.

Sodexo BRS offers a range of 100% Digital Employee Benefit Solutions. The meal benefit offerings include Meal Cards, & Cafeteria Cards. The company's fully-digital Rewards & Recognition offerings include the Premium Pass range of solutions that include the Premium Pass Celebrations for festive gifting & Premium Pass rewards for ongoing Reward & Recognition programs. Sodexo reaches out to over 3 million daily consumers in India across 1,500+ cities nationally including tier 3 & tier 4 cities making it India's largest Digital Meal Benefit Network with over 100,000 unique points of acceptance. 

- For more information regarding our services, please call our toll-free numbers 1800-103-3030 or 1800-267-3030 or visit our website http://www.sodexobenefitsindia.com

About BigBasket:  

BigBasket was founded in December 2011 in Bangalore by a team of five - V S Sudhakar, Hari Menon, Vipul Parekh, V S Ramesh and Abhinay Choudhari. The team has both offline and online retail experience, as they had earlier set up India's first e-commerce site FabMart.com in 1999, and then established the Fabmall-Trinethra chain of more than 200 grocery supermarket stores in southern India. Servicing over 6mn registered customers, BigBasket has grown into India's largest online supermarket with over 20,000 products from over 1000 brands and presence in 26 cities across the country. BigBasket's online store covers the whole gamut of grocery products across various categories: Fresh Fruits & Vegetables, Grocery & Staples, Beverages, Bakery & Dairy, Branded Foods, Meat & Eggs, Personal Care and Home care & household products. BigBasket is committed to making life simpler and grocery shopping a breeze!

Media Contact:
Sharon Batliwalla,
[email protected],
+91-22-43214321,
Sodexo



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