In this exceptionally fast-evolving world, individuals are constantly on the run to make their living easier. While you work round the clock to bring your dreams to reality, a small corner in your brain demands making the day-to-day activities of life to be simpler. Let it be cooking, organizing, or even cleaning clothes, people have been looking for feasible yet effective alternatives to accomplish these important daily tasks. Henceforth, eliminating the worries of washing and drying garments, Tumbledry has brought forth their impeccable services, consolidating all such solutions under one roof.
Within two years of its successful inception, Tumbledry has manifested a strong foothold in the industry, roaring with its processes even during the rampage that the Covid waves brought. The brand, with the help of expert professionals, takes care of all aspects of doing good laundry and dry cleaning. From distinguishing between a variety of clothes, segregating each for the best kind of treatment to washing and drying them using effective techniques, Tumbledry ensures proper quality checks before finally making them look brand new- straight out of the closet attires. With an objective to not just ‘Open New Stores’ but ‘Running Them Efficiently’, this laundry and dry clean firm has effectively let its franchisee partners grow not only in the urban areas but also gradually making a place for itself in the developing towns as well.
Organizing the Unorganized industry
Gauging the potential of the industry, the co-founders of Tumbledry, Gaurav Teotia, Tarun Arora, and Anuj Gupta decided to bring their product in the market with a mission to serve the people with the best in the domain. Confronting every roadblock on the way, they have efficiently improved their services with the changing demands of their customers. Crediting their ability to adapt to new circumstances over time, has led Tumbledry to transform itself from only a ‘laundry-only company’ to a ‘laundry and dry clean company’ with its wide presence in both the real and the virtual world. Ever since their successful inception, they have made their presence known with 186 stores spread across 50 cities all over India. They have made a mark of completing 3.2 lakh orders by cleaning 35.8 lakh garments in this time frame.
The brand is renowned among the masses for its capability to remove over 63 types of stains from all kinds of fabrics, that even the housing maids are not trained to clean. With Italian spotting machines and American stain removing solutions, they handle typical Indian stains without damaging the material in any way. The brand is able to process all categories of clothes without causing any kind of color loss or shrinkage using Hohenstein Certified and Woolmark Certified Machineries with German eco-friendly Cleaning Detergents. With extensive R&D done, they have acquired ingredients to make indigenous solutions that are specialized to remove stains that other detergents fail to remove otherwise.
Adapting to the digital world
As Covid built its walls around the world, brands opted for digital modes of establishing and offering their services. Tumbledry, as well adapted to these methodologies building its digital infrastructure. With its comprehensive CRM module, they built a mobile application for customers to schedule, track and pay for their orders. Playing a part in being eco-friendly, they went paperless on their Errand Boys digitizing their modes for order punching. Establishing a call center module, they enhanced the connectivity between its stores and customers.
The brand did not leave any stone unturned when it came to its business module. Building connections digitally, the comprehensive CRM put in place by Tumbledry helped them to manage and assist all their partners spread across the country.
A journey worth applauding
Tumbledry has based its success solely on making quality its highest virtue. They have entrusted their customers with a speedy and timely service, granting the reason for an exponential growth chart. Talking about birthing such an exceptional idea in India, co-founder Gaurav Teotia says, “It was during my long travels in China that I was first introduced to the concept of using laundromats for daily wear clothes. I was so fascinated by the ease with which the work was being done that I decided to replicate it for the Indian market. Therefore after in-depth research and analysis, the first Tumbledry store was born in Noida.”
Over the course of the last two years, Tumbledry has opened its franchise outlets across various urban and developing areas. Started from metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Noida and Delhi NCR, now its franchisees could be found in mid-towns like Lucknow, Bhopal, Dehradun, Pune, and Bhubhaneshwar. In the third phase of its journey, Tumbledry went to small towns like Aurangabad, Jorhat, Gorakhpur, Ayodhya, Gwalior, and many more, making it a total of 50 towns on the list.
Sharing on how systematically they are supporting their franchise partners, co-founder Anuj Gupta says, “Our way of working with our partners is very similar to a ‘Parent-Child’ Relationship. We act as parents for our franchise partners guiding and mentoring them along the way to put in result-oriented efforts in building a brand, worthy of praise. Alongside we take on all cumbersome tasks of building the backend processes like hiring and training manpower and helping to generate business so that what is offered at the end, is a seamless platform to operate on.”
Building its prowess with an efficient team
With IIT-IIM alumni as a part of their leading pillars and a team of like-minded and energetic youngsters, Tumbledry is effectively carving its niche in the industry. Acknowledging its commendable utilities, co-founder Tarun Arora says, “One needs to create the right structure in the organization by ensuring that it is a talented and driven team which is handling the process that matters. Selecting the right people for the right role is the biggest step in the right direction. We have always guided our team members with the right delegations and authority to be able to do their roles and deliver better with each passing day.”
Constantly empowering its cadre of experienced professionals, Tumbledry encourages a lot of customer interaction. Understanding consumer’s challenges and difficulties via this process has led them to a plethora of opportunities to serve their customers better.
A product or service is never irrelevant for anyone, it just takes time to become relevant. Similarly, the idea of wearing fresh and clean clothes every time is never going to get old. Hence, the brand is on the best trajectory to make relevance in both urban and developing areas, so that whenever one thinks of feel-good washed clothes, the name Tumbledry pops up as the first choice of help all across the country.
