We're building single shopping place for next billion consumers: Meesho CXO

Orders have grown 13x since July 2021, pet supplies, stationery among new categories added. Next up: musical instruments, industrial supplies, books, video games

Meesho, a fast-growing internet commerce company, is building a single shopping destination for the next billion consumers in India, said Utkrishta Kumar, CXO - Business at Meesho.

With 67 million lifetime product listings, Meesho said it is the lowest price destination catering to India’s value-conscious market. Consequently, there was about 1,600 per cent growth in the direct-to-platform (customer) orders year-over-year.

During the past six months, Meesho has launched new categories such as automotive accessories, sports and fitness, pet supplies, office and stationery as well as health and wellness.

“Among the newly launched categories, automotive accessories has grown by 7x since its launch in