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MeriCAR.com launched online car servicing booking in Mumbai



Mumbai, Maharashtra, March 10, 2013 -- MeriCAR.com, India's first web portal on car servicing and repair, launches its services in Mumbai. Car owners can book their car servicing through the website. The website provides search to car owners to find nearest car repair centre. The website has booked 11000 cars and the company has personalized centralized call center in New Delhi/NCR.

The website is helping car owners to search the neighborhood car service and repair centre. The venture is associated with authorized and multibrand car workshops. The website has now launched its services all across Mumbai for car owners. The service is also available to Navi Mumbai and Thane.

Visitors logon to website and search for car workshops in their area. The team responds to car owners through calls and chat program. The call center recommends car workshop based on customer reviews and connect them to nearest car workshops. The website sells pre-paid servicing deals under customer loyalty program to help customer to save on car servicing.

"After making success in Delhi/NCR, we want to explore more opportunities and want to serve more customers with our value services in Mumbai. " says, Rakesh Sidana, Founder and CEO, MeriCAR.com

Notes to Editor

MeriCAR.com™ is first in India dedicated car servicing web portal. The venture is helping car owners to search the neighbourhood car service centre, connect to the right car workshop and save on car servicing bill. MeriCAR.com™ impacts unorganized after-sales-market and provides personalized support to find the right car workshop in India. MeriCAR.com™ search web directory has over 1000 verified car repair and service centres all across India.



MeriCAR.com is a Finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Asia Award

Gurgaon : 19 Aug. 2012: The Red Herring editorial team selected MeriCAR.com as a Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Asia award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures from the Asian business region.

MeriCAR.com announced today it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Asia award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures from the Asian business region.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Asia. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list an valuable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

"This year was very rewarding," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "The global economic situation has abated and there are many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products. We had a very difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. MeriCAR.com shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the Finalists. Now we're faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring Asia. We know that the 2012 crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to make an impact."

Finalists for the 2012 edition of the Red Herring 100 Asia award are selected based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, mobile and other industries completed their submissions to qualify for the award.

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Asia Forum in Hong Kong, September 10-12, 2012. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony the evening of September 12 at the event.



Notes to Editor

About MeriCAR.com

MeriCAR.com™ is first in India dedicated car servicing web portal. The venture is helping car owners to search the neighbourhood car service centre, connect to the right car workshop and save on car servicing bill. MeriCAR.com™ impacts unorganized after-sales-market and provides personalized support to find the right car workshop in India. MeriCAR.com™ has over 180 listing member car workshops and its search web directory has over 500 verified car repair and service centres all across India.

About The Red Herring 100 Award

The Red Herring 100 award highlight the exciting startups from Asia, Europe and the Americas. Hundreds of companies are from each region are reviewed in a rigorous 3-step process that looks at all aspects of the company (financials, CAGR, innovation, customers, IP, etc.). Companies that make it past step 1 and 2 are invited to be part of the final step, the regional Top 100 Forum, where they compete for a top 100 spot

More readings:
List of all TOP 100 ASIA companies: http://www.redherring.com/red-herring-asia/asia-2012-finalists/

11 Favorite from Pluggd.in:
http://www.pluggd.in/redherring-asia-2012-list-of-startups-297/

MeriCAR.com is celebrating Independence Day by offering huge discount at car workshops along with 24x7 breakdown assistance

MeriCAR.com™, the pioneer in online car servicing and repair, offers free paid servicing and discounts at car workshops along with 24x7 breakdown assistance on the occasion of Independence Day.

Gurgaon, Haryana, August 13, 2012 -- MeriCAR.com, ™, the pioneer in online car servicing and repair is offering free paid service and discount at member car workshops in New Delhi and NCR. The company is associated with automotive companies to help car owners for car servicing and on-road 24x7 emergency car breakdown.

Customer needs to logon on to the website and pay online for membership. Once the customer buys servicing deal online, the team sends car servicing coupons through courier at customer's home or office. The coupons can be used for one year at selected MeriCAR workshops members. MeriCAR.com is using secure DirecPay, a payment gateway by The Times of India Group venture for all membership transactions.

The 65th Independence Day brings offer at Rs 650 to make celebration more speical.

"Our company value is to help customer to reduce their car servicing costs while suggesting them the right car workshop in their neighborhood. Car workshops members get regular customers with these offers. Independence Day is special day for us to share joy with our customers" says, Rakesh Sidana, CEO, MeriCAR.com



Notes to Editor

MeriCAR.com™ is first in India dedicated car servicing web portal. The venture is helping car owners to search the neighbourhood car service centre, connect to the right car workshop and save on car servicing bill. MeriCAR.com™ impacts unorganized after-sales-market and provides personalized support to find the right car workshop in India. MeriCAR.com™ has over 180 member car workshops and its search web directory has over 500 verified car repair and service centres all across India.






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What Others say?

I think this is a great initiative and can be very useful for car owners. With more service centers registered in their database and having more and better information about them can really help car owners to decide and book for servicing accordingly.
TechieGyan.com

MeriCAR Servicing Reminder (MCSR) software is free for all, will retrieve contact details in order to keep owners updated about servicing dates. Later, they can keep reminding these users about their other services. This was they don’t have to keep tying up time and again to draw user attention. Effective estimation, isn’t it?
Watblog.com

MeriCAR Reminds You to Service Your Car. Car owners can setup reminders for their next car servicing due date. The MeriCAR Servicing Reminder (MCSR) is a beta release with version number 1.2.7. It is available free to use for car owners all over India. The web tool sends alerts in SMS and email with details of vehicles. Tech2.com - Network18's integrated technology media brand.

The internet has seen many players participating to promote new launches and their products which apparently didn’t see as much success as they did online. Another opportunity in the online space for cars, seems to be available with the online booking for car servicing. Recently, MeriCAR.com was in news for their tie up with SPEED Car Helpline Service in Delhi, NCR region.
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http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/idINIndia-55600320110315 (Reuters.com)


http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-mericar-gets-funding-from-myfirstcheque/