Wellness Forever joins hands with BLive to accelerate their sustainability journey
- With BLive’s strategic mobility solution, Wellness Forever will reduce their running cost of deliveries by 80%
Chennai, 26 July 2022: BLive, India’s first multi-brand EV solution platform, has partnered with Wellness Fore ver Healthcare (WF) to create a sustainable green mobility solution for delivery of their products. The rising fuel costs and pollution were big challenges that the company was faced with, and the company was looking to swit ch to EV for their deliveries. They were also focused on ensuring the delivery of items within 60 minutes throu gh their retail outlets. So, BLive helped them with a tailor-made solution by assessing various existing EVs and finding the right custom vehicle to fit WF’s requirement.
BLive with their expertise in EV offered a cost-effective rental so lution which will not only reduce the running cost of Wellness Fo rever by close 80 per cent but also make the company one of the early medical chains to go green for their delivery operations. To help make the switch, BLive connected Wellness Forever with th eir ecos ystem partner Epick to help with the deployment. During the deployment 18 E-bikes (cycles) will be handed ov er to 9 bran ch managers in Karnataka spread over Bangalore and Belgaum. Going forward, Wellness Forever aims 100 percent replacement if ICE vehicles with EV.
The switch to E-bike with low – cost maintenance & per km running cost combined with efficient last mile delive ry will benefit customers order from their trusted pharmacy from the comfort of their homes. Even with conser vative estimates of 10 per order per day, this will impact the lives of thousands of consumers while also contrib uting to the Government of India’s mission of reducing carbon footprint in the country. BLive plans to deploy a total of 250+ EV’s for Wellness Forever nationally, to create a larger impact on the environment and encourage people to shift to green mobility.
Sharing his thoughts on this strategic partnership with Wellness Forever Samarth Kholkar, CEO & Co-founder, BLive said “At BLive we are on a constant lookout to partner with businesses to help acce lerate their switch to EV. We are happy and excited to work with We llness Forever because their need was last mile delivery. BLive’s mission is to enco urage all businesses to switch their deliveries to EVs and Wel lness Forever plays an important role in achieving this. Our solution will not only help them reduce their carbon footprint but will also add to the overall cost reduction and improve delivery operations efficiency.” 
Haarshal Thakker, Head – Omnichannel & Hyperlocal Operations, Wellness Forever said “Being one of the fastest growing pharmacy an d lifestyle retail chains in the country, a big focus for us is driving effic iency, quick deliveries, and great experiences for our customers across our stores and omnichannel ordering platforms. Our partnership with BLive helps us drive these objectives and while being responsible by reducing our carbon footprint, making this a win for eve ryone including our customers.”
About BLive
BLive was founded in the year 2018 by Samarth Kholkar and Sandeep Mukherjee with the aim to drive awarene ss, accessibility, and adoption of EVs in India. It is India’s digital-first Multi-brand EV platform offering a wide ra nge of EV products and services on www.bliveEVstore.com and across various experience stores present pan In dia. BLive also facilitates multi brand EV options for personal usage as well as businesses by providing inno vati ve products, Charging infrastructure, Post sales service as well as easy finance options to its customers.
About Wellness Forever
Headquartered in Mumbai, Wellness Forever has been founded by three well known entrepreneurs with a collec tive team experience of over 100 years of operating profitable pharmacies. The company currently operates a ch ain of over 300+ pharmacy and lifestyle stores operating day and night, throughout the week in 44 cities of Mah arashtra, Goa, and Karnataka. Wellness Forever aims to create India’s most respected chain of branded lifestyle pharmacies and wellness stores which will deliver customers unmatched performance in lowering healthcare co sts, ensure availability of products and healthcare information and continue to offer value add services to patie nts.
