Page 30 - ITLN May-June 2021 issue for Magzter

Interview
Amitava Saha

Our automation spend

would be close to 500 crore

in next three years

Present across 2,500 cities in India, Pune-headquartered Xpressbees is one of the biggest
express logistics companies in the country. Amitava Saha, CEO and founder of Xpressbees,
talks to Libin Chacko Kurian about the potential of RFIDs, the upcoming revolution in the B2B
express logistics, capital efficiency, new clients in pharma and fashion industries and plans
for China, South East Asia, and Middle East expansion.

How big is Xpressbees in terms of us as far as e-commerce, B2C packages Compare the Alibaba investment of
packages you deliver every day or are concerned. $224 crore in 2017 and the new $800
pin codes you serve compared to crore in November 2020?
competitors? In our last interview with you in 2018, When Alibaba investments came in, we
We serve around 17,000 plus pin codes you said that you aim to grow 5x in were moving 1.3 lakh shipments per
delivering close to eight lakh packages new next two years. How far you have day and were present across 4,000 to
every day. If you're doing competitive reached? 5,000 pin codes. At that time, the use
benchmarking E-com Express and We're close to four and a half x of the funds was primarily to grow the
we are almost similar in size. While of what we were then in terms of scale of the business to increase our
Delhivery is probably slightly bigger than turnover. reach. However, this one will be used

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