Quikr, Indian cross category classifieds business, has acquired
ZapLuk, a provider of on-demand beauty & wellness services, in a strategic move to scale its growing beauty services brand AtHomeDiva. Under its services vertical, QuikrServices, Quikr will now offer a full range of on-demand home beauty services to consumers in multiple cities including Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Gurgaon and Hyderabad.
This is Quikr’s second acquisition in the beauty services segment following Salosa to cater to the fast growth of beauty services requests on QuikrServices.
Talking about the acquisition, PD Sundar, Head of QuikrServices, said, "ZapLuk’soperational strengths, trained pool of stylists and professionals and highly engaged user base in the Chennai and Hyderabad markets will allow us to expand the reach of our AtHomeDiva brand in these markets rapidly.
AtHomeDiva is growing fast and the number of services delivered by our team of trained and professional stylists is growing by more than 100% month on month. While we are experiencing a high repeat rate, what’s even better is that the average transaction value is increasing steadily for repeat users.”
With the acquisition, ZapLuk’s co-founder Lavanya Hariharan and a team of close to 50 stylists and professionals will now be a part of AtHomeDiva. The other co-founders of ZapLuk, Manan Maheshwari, Mahesh Gogineni and CTO Varun MS will be pursuing other business interests.
"Quikr offers immense scope through its various categories that can be cross-leveraged for the beauty services business. This is a huge step forward for our team and a move that will bring us further fast growth. We are excited to join forces with AtHomeDiva as we continue to bring at home beauty services to more people across India." said LavanyaHariharan, Co-founder, ZapLuk.
AtHomeDivaoffers a full range of in-home beauty and styling services including hair, skin, make-up services and special packages. The services are fulfilled by qualified beauty professionals that have undergone both quality and background checks. On-demand beauty is just one of the 80+ types of services provided by QuikrServices that caters to 100,000+consumers across India every day.
Zapluk is an on-demand mobile app to conveniently discover and book appointments for beauty and wellness services at your chosen time & location - be it your home, office or hotel. With the use of technology, Zapluk brings beauty & wellness services, along with highly-vetted professionals directly to your doorstep. From its humble beginnings of doing around 80 orders/month in Nov 2015, Zapluk has come a long way to become a market leader in the on demand beauty and wellness vertical in Hyderabad and Chennai with the acquisition of Pamperazi, which was founded by Lavanya Hariharan. Manan Maheshwari and Mahesh Gogineni (the founders of ZAPLUK) are alums of BITS-Pilani, Fuqua School of Business – Duke University and Stanford GSB.
