Bigchemist.com to launch in Mumbai in 2016

The company has also recently introduced a disease management programme to offer a complete package for a certain ailment. At the initial stage, one-year packages for diabetes management and the other for diet and nutrition will be launched.  In addition, it has partnered with diagnostic labs, drug manufactures, a telephone, and a video doctor-consulting platform.

At present, we are only catering to the NCR for medicines, but for over the counter and FMCG products, which are not covered under the drug licence, we are supplying all across the country,” said Puneet Kapoor, Director, BigChemist.com, as told to the Hindu.

“By March 2016, we will have seven locations, including the three which we already have in Delhi and the NCR. Our stores will come up in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad from where we are getting maximum requests,” Mr Kapoor told The Hindu .

He further implied at having a combined physical and online strategy to make medicines accessible to all. In line with the company’s ambitions, BigChemist’s strategy is to build an ecosystem of partner chemists and lab service providers around its own stores so that it can deliver the medicines and pathological lab services to clients from the nearest partner stores and labs.

“Since the law mandates that medicines can only be dispensed with a drug licence and a physical store, the company will have one signature store in each major city, and in and around it, will partner with local chemists to manage the distributor-supply ecosystem.