2017 will be a year of more awareness and adaptability for handmade products: Vinamra Pandiya

Vinamra Pandiya, Founder and CEO, Qtrove.com, a Bangalore based curated marketplace that exhibits and sells non-mass produced items from small entrepreneurs across the country said that, “2016 has seen lot of companies promoting natural products.” “I feel 2017 will be a year of more awareness and adaptability for handmade products where people buy local and consume local. In 2017, there will be a slow but steady shift towards non mass curated products with focus on products that are sustainable in nature. For Qtrove, the last six months have been good and insightful & helped us firm our hypothesis. In the coming year, we wish to grow and at the same time be sustainable and profitable for our customers and partner sellers,”

As far as 2017 and way forward for Qtrove.com is concerned Vinamra said that, “We want to bring handpicked vendors from the top 10 cities. For us, core focus is on the quality of products and hence we aren’t chasing GMV or seller count. We want to have a base of 10k satisfied customers and around 500 unique sellers on our platform by March 2017. In the longer run, we want to establish a content and community driven marketplace which is democratic and sustainable in nature - one where seller and buyer happily co-exist, one where products are celebrated and together it leads to a happy, natural and a sustainable planet for a better tomorrow.”