From yoga mats to fitness products: how this entrepreneur scaled his business to clock Rs 30 Cr turnover in tw – YourStory

Posted: December 30, 2020 at 9:56 am

Being fit is important for everyone. Twenty-five-year old entrepreneur Pallav Bihani realised this quite early when he suffered from a slip disc while in school, right before his board exams.

In an interaction with SMBStory, he says,

He explains that fitness is not affordable in India. Right from health supplements and fitness accessories to immunity boosters people cannot afford such high costs.

Hailing from a family that has been into manufacturing hospital supplies, Pallav decided to join the family business after his graduation. However, he soon perceived that he was not adding much value to the business that was already established and running successfully. It was at this time he started thinking about the fitness segment and thus, to fill the gap, he founded Boldfit in Bengaluru in January 2019.

Pallav says his primary motive to start Boldfit was to make fitness available for everyone. And so, he started this D2C, health and fitness ecommerce brand to reach directly to the consumers after taking a loan of Rs eight lakh from his father.

The cash was less to set up a whole manufacturing infrastructure and Pallav wasnt ready to seek any external funding, and so he decided to start small and began with yoga mats.

Pallav realised that if yoga mats are not of good quality, they get worn out easily, and the ones that sustain for long are very expensive. He tapped this segment by contacting a few contract manufacturers to make yoga mats for his brand.

He started selling yoga mats in his close circle and then listed the product on Amazon and was surprised by the response. He says, I knew there was a gap in the market but didnt know that it was too much.

Pallav claims that Boldfit yoga mats last for at least three years.

Starting with just one product, Boldfit now has 30 SKUs across categories including fitness and yoga, nutrition, health and wellness. Out of 30, Pallav says that 17 SKUs were added only in November 2020. The price of Boldfit products starts from Rs 199.

After the successful launch of the yoga mats, Pallav expanded Boldfit to launch nutritional and wellness supplements, where he brought proteins, multivitamins, immunity boosters, detox tablets, and other supplements under WHO and GMP compliance.

Boldfit products

Boldfit products are available across ecommerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, MensXP, and it also sells products through its own portal.

Going digital has helped Boldfit maintain a lean approach and reach customers across the country. Pallav says the growth of the company would not have been possible without digital penetration and achieving their present scale would be unthinkable a decade ago in the non-digital era.

Boldfit has utilised the maximised potential of the digital ecosystem and has made its presence felt across India. According to the founder, Boldfit has fulfilled over 2,00,000 lakh orders so far, and today one Boldfit product is delivered somewhere in India every minute.

In a span of two years, the company claims to be having an annual turnover of Rs 30 crore.

Pallav says that India is among the fastest-growing fitness and healthcare market in the world, and is projected to be a $10 billion market by 2025.

For Boldfit, capital had been a constraint in the early days, but Pallav says it also gave them the discipline to make some hard choices and decisions and stay bootstrapped.

Competition with other leading and established brands in India, besides the vast set up of foreign brand Decathlon into the fitness space, was another challenge. But it didnt take long for Pallav to understand consumer dynamics and accept the competition.

Pallav says he aims to make Boldfit reach masses by playing on the pricing strategy and be the first name to hit the mind when it comes to fitness products. He says that his ultimate dream for the brand is to be on par with Decathlon in India.

The brand is also soon going to launch and include more SKUs in its portfolio.

This year, the company is also launching its ayurvedic product range called Boldveda. It is also in talks with Nykaa, NetMed, and other ecommerce companies to list its products.

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