 "QuikrServices acquires on-demand beauty & wellness service ZapLuk")
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, said the company in a statement.
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.
P D Sundar, Head of QuikrServices, said: "ZapLuk's operational 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."
He claimed that AtHomeDiva is growing fast and the number of services delivered by the team of trained and professional stylists is growing by more than 100 per cent month-on-month.
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 M S 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," said Lavanya Hariharan, Co-founder, ZapLuk.
AtHomeDiva offers 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.