Pepperfry studio opened in city
The Hindu
Furniture and home products marketplace and e-commerce portal Pepperfry launched its first studio on Guru Nanak Nagar road in the city as part of its offline expansion. It currently has more than 100
Furniture and home products marketplace and e-commerce portal Pepperfry launched its first studio on Guru Nanak Nagar road in the city as part of its offline expansion.
It currently has more than 100 studios in over 50 cities in the country. South India, which forms the biggest market for Pepperfry, alone, houses 35 studios across Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Kochi, Trivandrum, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Madurai, Kottayam, Kollam, Salem, Gulbarga, Trichy, Vellore, Secunderabad, Chittoor and now in Vijayawada.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.