Mumbai’s HeyDidi! plans major expansion
Mumbai-based last-mile delivery specialist HeyDidi! has announced that it plans to expand to other cities across India. According to a report in today’s Times of India, the company currently has 10 women scooter drivers operating in Mumbai, but it plans to have 5,000 women delivering e-commerce parcels by the end of the year.
The report added that HeyDidi! has already trained 200 women and Pune, Bengaluru, Goa and Gurgaon are among the cities earmarked for expansion.
HeyDidi! and sister ride hailing sister company HeyTaxi! were both set up by the founders of Ride Exchange.
HeyDidi’s stated aim is to “train and employ 10,000 girls to ride scooters and provide instant parcel service on the HeyDidi! Platform – across 20 cities in 3 years”.
The delivery company has also reportedly partnered with Mahindra Finance for “easy financing of two-wheelers for its women employees”. (Post&Parcel readers may recall that Amazon India announced in November that it was running a vehicle loan scheme for its delivery associates and, interestingly, the loans were to be used for upgrading from two wheelers to the Jeeto mini truck from Mahindra’s manufacturing arm.)
