Can you tell us more about your company, how it was started? And the solution you offer for retail?
There are very limited offerings for Aaryahaan International (P) Limited, is a Delhi based company, founded by Jagmohan Batra with business units in Commodities, Minerals, Oil & Gas, Realty and more. This division of Aaryahaan is a team of skilled engineers with immense knowledge and experience of deployments of networks, integration of diverse technologies like wi-fi, RFID, camera and software solutions. In 2015 Aaryahaan ventured into retail technology and became the exclusive agent for state-of-the-art retail analytics and retargeting solutions from Germany by MiNODES GmbH, giving brick and mortar retailers a level playing field against their most threatening competition - online retail.
After having successfully executing and implementing MiNODES solution and technology with the likes of Select CityWalk and DLF Malls to name a few, Aaryahaan has now, not only integrated other complimenting technologies to take the solution to another level, but have also evolved and developed an indigenous technology which we offer now.
We essentially capture the shopping journeys and behaviour of the physical shoppers and are able to target these visitors on the basis of their location-based preferences. Our unique solution matches offline customer data with online profiles and allows marketers to target more relevant ads to users than ever before.
We deliver transparency about consumer behaviour in offline locations, such as retail stores and shopping malls. Providing transparency is only the initial step; we then use this data to identify ways to measure the change in consumer behaviour, and advise retailers and mall operators with actionable decisions they can take in order to do so.
What market factors drove the development of such a solution? What is the demand for such solutions?
This story is from the December 2019 edition of Point of Purchase.
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