Self-employed persons, students, retired professionals, other job seekers may sign up as last-mile agents; they only need a two-wheeler, valid driving license and smartphone
Logistics firm Delhivery on Friday announced its plans to hire over 75,000 staff for seasonal jobs over the next one-and-a-half month and expand its parcel sortation capacity by 1.5 million shipments per day. Of these, over 10,000 people will be off-roll employees across Delhivery's gateways, warehouses, and last-mile delivery, the company said. The hiring is aimed at meeting the expected higher volumes in both parcels and express part-truck load business during the festive season, it added. The company's fully-automated mega gateway, which is equipped with the automated parcel and hub sortation at Tauru became operational in April this year. The company said it will also double down on its various partner programmes by onboarding individual bikers, local retailers, business partners and transporters with plans to roll out a revenue payout of Rs 150-crore across all programmes. Delhivery said it will hire 50,000 last-mile agents under its Last-Mile Agent programme alone, which off
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The firm's total income rose 32% to Rs 1,795 crore in Q1FY23
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At 01:58 PM, Delhivery commanded a market-cap of Rs 50,382 crore, and ranked 95th in the overall m-cap ranking list, BSE data shows
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Shares of Delhivery surged 7 per cent to Rs 635 on the BSE in Tuesday's intraday trade on healthy business growth outlook
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Ties up with Welspun for a 700,000 sq ft mega-gateway in Greater Mumbai, and with GMR for one million-plus sq ft in Bengaluru; both will be operational by 2023
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While announcing its Q4FY22 results, Delhivery said that majority of the investments made by the company in FY22 were towards capacity and capability building in the form of capex.
Shares are now up 10% from Delhivery's debut, which Sahil Barua, the CEO, thinks signals solid appetite for risk in India's public markets despite a drop in financing from venture capital firms.