“I want an award that is like dmart, why not?” Executive chairman Apollo Healthco Shoban Kamineni said in an interview. “Because of the (our) retail presence and in five years, we will have an EBITDA margin by more than 8%, as well as any other retail with great presence. In addition, I will have customers’ sticky,” she added.
Apollo Healthco increased in April 2024 £2 475 Crore from Private Equity Investor Advent and merged its online pharmacy Apollo 24 | 7 with wholesale pharmaceutical Keimed. The combined entity was awarded at £22 481 crore, while the value of the company (which represents capital and debt) Apollo 24 | 7 Before merging was £14 478 crore.
“India is a market that has grown. I know I have grown a pharmacy and other 20%businesses over the past 20 years,” Kamineni said. “For the next 10-15 years we will grow at the same rate. So there will be a big award.”
Apollo Healthco is a subsidiary of Apollo Hospital Enterprise and includes an offline distribution company and Apollo 24 | 7, which includes an online pharmacy, diagnostics and teleconstructions.
DMART (Avenue Supermarts Ltd), one of the largest Indian retail chains, currently has market capitalization £2.8 trillion.
Growth
Apollo Healthco closed the income £9 093 crore in FY25, year -on -year growing 16%. The platform supplied three consecutive quarters of profitability after interruption and Q2FY25.
Digital Platform, Apollo 24 | 7, had £3,000 crore in gross value of Merchandize in FY25. The aim of the platform is to achieve profitability Q4FY26.
“Our growth is measured, but healthy,” Kamineni said, adding that he is now focusing on profitability. “… I will not let my people break and discount and only because of that. We have to make a profit,” she said.
The platform began rationalizing spending last year because it focused on profitability and trying to add other customers as the Omnicannel platform.
“One lever is that you are still getting new customers. So the new customers don’t come at electronic trading speed, but it’s a constant growth, anywhere between 4-7% a month,” Kamineni said. They are not only new users, but also users who continue to return.
Apollo 24 | 7 currently has more than 40 million registered users and 820,574 users per day from Q4FY25. Kamineni said the platform would probably hit 1 million users by September.
“We began to take over the role of health breeders,” she said, explaining that she focused on the platform to focus more on consumers to increase sticky.
Apollo Healthco increases the use of AI. “If you have an Apollo medical record, it will come true automatically. We have an artificial intelligence that will throw you … We will adapt it to you,” Kamineni said.
Apollo advantage
Apollo Healthco is the largest Omnichannel platform in India. It operates more than 6,600 bricks and mortar, making it the largest retail chain in India.
According to the Redseer report from 2023, the share in the digital platform was 18%, which hovered under the competitor of Phaarmeasy and Tata 1mg.
In the last few years Apollo 24 | 7 has expanded to various categories, including partnerships with brands such as Eli Lilly, for their obesity Drug Mounjaro, wellness brand, and last year launched 19 -minute supplies of medicinal products to keep up with increasing competition quickly.
“The electronic pharmacy segment has to be achieved full potential due to multiple problems,” Mint Bhan Prakash Kalmath SJ, partner and medical industry at Thornton Bharat Grant said. The segment faces regulatory obstacles, concerns about data privacy, retrieval from chemists, etc. ”
The last time Apollo Healthco entered marketing insurance products as a corporate agent in cooperation with insurance companies.
“I know how difficult it is to operate the insurance company and how beautiful it is to own a distribution. When you own a customer, and when you can throw your product into it, it becomes a really sweet place,” Kamineni said.
In the middle of the declining awards of online pharmacies, Kamineni believes that having the entire Apollo ecosystem and focusing on a greater Omnicannel approach gives them an advantage.
Pharmpeasy, once worth $ 5.6 billion, recorded in December 2024 its valuation compared
“But the holistic coverage of online and the store model that covers a wider range of services such as diagnostics, wellness products, etc. For customer addressing and not necessarily patients, will help unlock full value,” Kalmath said.
Omnichannel model that could take care of a wider demographic group would work in favor of the platform, added Kalmath.
“Fortunately, because we are Apollo, we can play the whole game and also bring a name to the table,” Kamineni said. “We bring a scale, bring a name, bring experience. And for the next 30 to 40 years you will see a scale, because we have energy.”
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