{"id":302923,"date":"2018-09-18T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302923"},"modified":"2018-09-18T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:20:50","slug":"ola-announces-its-plans-to-begin-operations-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ola-announces-its-plans-to-begin-operations-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ola announces its plans to begin operations in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/ola-announces-its-plans-to-begin-operations-in-new-zealand\/ola\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302924\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302924 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/OLA-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/OLA-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/OLA-536x420.jpg 536w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/OLA.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a>Ola, one of India\u2019s largest ride sharing platform, on Tuesday, announced its plans to enter New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Founded in 2011, Ola serves as many as a billion rides annually in India, Australia and the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To build Ola\u2019s presence locally, Brian Dewil has been appointed as Country Manager for New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Bhavish Aggarwal, Co-Founder and CEO at Ola, we see a real opportunity in New Zealand to provide a fair alternative in the rideshare space for both customers and drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that the company has invested in understanding the New Zealand customer and devised the right strategy to meet their transport needs<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are the rideshare brand that cares and are looking forward to creating high quality transport experiences for both passengers and drivers in New Zealand,\u201d Aggarwal added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ola\u2019s launch into New Zealand follows its successful launch in Australia in February 2018 and the UK in August 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Kiwis have had too little choice when it comes to rideshare. Ola&#8217;s arrival will create a compelling experience that puts the quality of rides first. I&#8217;m excited to build the local team and\u00a0business\u00a0in New Zealand and provide a healthy contribution to the nation&#8217;s local mobility infrastructure,&#8221; said Brian Dewil,\u00a0Country Manager\u00a0NZ at\u00a0Ola.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ola, one of India\u2019s largest ride sharing platform, on Tuesday, announced its plans to enter New Zealand. Founded in 2011, Ola serves as many as a billion rides annually in India, Australia and the UK. To build Ola\u2019s presence locally, Brian Dewil has been appointed as Country Manager for New Zealand. According to Bhavish Aggarwal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5129,2127,2071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302926,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302923\/revisions\/302926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}