Feeding India by Zomato Joins Hands with

                                 Feeding India by Zomato Joins Hands with Sangeetha Mobiles 

                                                                    to Serve 1 Million Meals

Feeding India, a not-for-profit organisation by Zomato have joined hands with leading multi-brand mobile phone retailer, Sangeetha Mobiles to serve 1 million meals to COVID-affected families including frontline workers in Chennai.                   

Feeding India will execute the distribution of nutritious meals to beneficiaries in need with their 100+ distribution partners while ensuring complete compliance to COVID-19 norms including, social distancing, and contactless distribution.

Chaitanya Mathur, Head, Feeding India by Zomato said, “We are happy to have partnered with Sangeetha Mobiles to serve a million meals to COVID-affected families including frontline workers as a part of our ‘Daily Feeding Program. The Program focuses on providing regular, nutritious meals to people in need. Their contribution has significantly helped us reach a larger part of the community who have been severely affected by the ongoing pandemic.”

“Regardless of the situation, we must look out for each other. And in times like these, we need to become ambassadors to our neighborhoods. We sincerely hope and pray that this too shall come to an end. Until then, stay home, stay safe and do your bit to help your friends and family steer through ahead - One step at a time.” added Mr. Subhash Chandra, Managing Director, Sangeetha Mobiles.

Taco Bell Launches first ever Global Campaign

TACO BELL® LAUNCHES FIRST EVER GLOBAL CAMPAIGN,
ALL WITH THE HELP OF THE MOON

 Fans can enjoy a free Crunchy Taco with any order on May 4^th, from the safety of their homes 

Around the world, the moon is known for some playful influences – from turning characters into wolves and witches, being the inspiration for some of India’s favorite Bollywood songs, to being the most awaited visual during major festivities. Now, Taco Bell, the world's leading Mexican-inspired restaurant brand, is harnessing lunar powers and the ‘Taco Moon’ to celebrate tacos with the world. 

On May 4^th, taco-loving fans in India and across the world may notice that the half moon will resemble the shape of an iconic, craveable taco. Taco Bell, in turn, will celebrate this ‘Taco Moon’ phenomenon by giving fans across the world free tacos on this special day.

Talking about the campaign, Gaurav Burman, Director, Burman Hospitality Private Limited, Taco Bell’s Master Franchise Partner in India said, “The moon is an integral part of Indian culture – whether it is via Bollywood songs and dialogues, or through our Indian festivals. We, at Burman Hospitality, are excited to celebrate the phenomenon of Taco Moon across the country and look forward to our customers witnessing the Taco Moon and enjoying their free tacos on May 4^th. Taco Moon is our way of referencing Taco Bell to consumers across India in a highly engaging and unique manner. Once you see the resemblance of the half Moon to a Taco Bell taco, you will never be able to unsee it.”

Taco Moon is the launchpad of Taco Bell’s overarching global #ISeeATaco campaign that aims to invite consumers to start noticing the shape of a Taco in everyday life. Taco Moon giveaways will take place in more than 20 markets at participating restaurants for a limited time.

In India, fans can get a free Crunchy Taco on May 4^th, with any purchase through delivery (via the Taco Bell app or through food-delivery aggregators Swiggy and Zomato). Taco Bell India is following hygiene and safety processes across all delivery and takeaway orders, as well as for in-store dining in states which allow the same. Measures include temperature checking of delivery executives at restaurants and ensuring pick up of orders from a demarcated area to ensure contactless- pickups. Moreover, all Taco Bell orders continue to be ‘double – packed’, where each item is wrapped in individual packets followed by an outer bag to ensure contactless transit of the order. ‘Safety Cards’ are also enclosed with each order, documenting hygiene and safety measures, along with the name and temperature of the delivery rider.

Razorpay and PayPal Partner to Help Indian

 Razorpay and PayPal Partner to Help Indian MSME’s and Freelancers go Global

 The partnership will make international payments seamless and safer

Razorpay is the first payment gateway to offer an integration with PayPal without code

Continuing its efforts to empower businesses with easy access to digital payment technologies, Razorpay, India’s leading full-stack financial solutions company, today announced a partnership with PayPal, a global leader in digital payments to enable seamless international payments for MSMEs and Freelancers. The company’s partner businesses can now integrate with PayPal and accept payments from international customers from across 200 markets in a convenient and secure manner, reducing wait time from days down to minutes.

After having faced stiff challenges due to the ongoing pandemic, Indian SMEs are hoping to bounce back by leveraging digital technologies as they believe it’ll help them increase their revenues. Even the freelancer economy is flourishing, a recent study revealed that India saw a 46% increase in new freelancers. While the potential for MSMEs and freelancers continues to grow, businesses still lose out on prospective global clients due to highly complex payment and banking infrastructure, processes and systems in place that lack seamless integration. Traditionally, micro-entrepreneurs have found it difficult to accept international payments on cards via payment gateways as many of them could not pass the eligibility checks at the banks’ end. By integrating PayPal into Razorpay’s payment platform, freelancers and MSMEs will now be able to accept international payments without having to write a single line of code. Having heavily-reduced wait-times for statutory approvals, this new service will be one of the fastest ways to accept digital payments, a boon for Indian entrepreneurs. 

Commenting on the partnership, Amitabh Tewary, Chief Innovation Officer, Razorpay, said, “MSMEs have been impacted the most by disruptions caused by the ongoing pandemic. While they are making their best efforts to adapt to the changes and embrace a digital way of doing business, we at Razorpay are striving to help them overcome their payment and banking-related challenges to accelerate the pace of adoption of digital. Our association with PayPal is an important step towards realising that goal. Partnering with a globally recognized organization like PayPal with the expertise and experience of enabling digital payments for SMEs and Freelancers will allow us to further empower our businesses and open new growth avenues for them not just within India but internationally. We hope this partnership will help us serve our resilient MSME customers better and enable them to gear up for the new normal.”

Speaking on the partnership, Ashish Tandon, Director, Channel Partners said, “MSME’s form the backbone of the India economy. At PayPal our focus has been to help these businesses leverage the global opportunity and in light of the current pandemic, our cross-border business has become even more relevant. We firmly believe in the power of partnerships to serve our consumers and merchants and our partnership with Razorpay will be instrumental in enabling Indian small businesses and freelancers to go global and tap into our 333 million consumer base across 200 markets.”

Last year, Razorpay launched its support for 100 International currencies via Internationally issued Credit and Debit cards - including all popular currencies such as USD, EUR GBP, CAD and SGD. Razorpay’s International payments are integrated across its product offering including Payment Gateway, Payment Links, Payment Pages, Subscriptions and Invoices. With the PayPal integration, businesses of all sizes can enable over 300mn PayPal users across 200 markets world-wide through the PayPal wallet.

The leading full-stack financial solutions company is witnessing a 40-45% month-on-month growth. This newly crowned FinTech Unicorn currently powers payments for over 8 Million businesses including the likes of Facebook, Airtel, BookMyShow, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy, Cred, ICICI Prudential among others and is all set to reach 10 Million businesses by the end of this year.