The telecom industry has progressed and advanced beyond many
measures in the past decade or so, and one of the masterminds thatÂs always
staying one step ahead of this curve is the founder and managing director of
Advanced Computers and Mobiles India Pvt Ltd.
Advanced Group is no stranger to the telecom industry. Ask
any person who is a part of this industry and thereÂs a sure shot chance that
theyÂre guaranteed to know about the brand and about the name and face keeping
the brand alive, Mr. Essa Merchant.
This article explores the life journey of the early-starter
brand, Advanced Computers and Mobiles India Pvt, that brought along some new
age innovations and techniques into its distribution model and began creating a
revolution in the telecom industry, one step at a time with its success. With
the help of an exclusive snippet of Mr. Merchant dishing out details on the ups
and downs, and the highs and lows of the telecommunications sector, we find out
what is it that compels the growth of the brand, Advanced Group.
Mr. Essa Merchant, who managed to give inspirational
insights even through a small interview, quickly established himself as the
spokesman keeping the brand alive. He relays his days from a pager phone and
brings us to his unique distribution model of ÂDelivery Through Bikers”, where
he had created an opportunity for bikers to deliver his stock at lightning
speed to his customers  he believes that this last mile distribution model is
what gave him an edge from his competition, and soon the word began to grow
about Advanced Computers.
As soon as international brands started realising the
potential of the Indian market, they came looking for partners who would be
able to create a strong impact for their brands and at the same time would be
able to provide assured services and competitive prices.
India soon became a hub that transformed from the pager days
to the feature phone days and subsequently transferred itself to an era we all
know and love today, the digitised smartphone era.
Mr. Essa Merchant, and his brand Advanced Group have been
the ringleaders in this growth. They have been the Âmasters of trade that
every brand who came to India wanted to partner up with. It is this very same
brand and the very same name that exclusively partnered with names like
Blackberry, Philips, Alcatel, Lenovo, Meizu, LG, Motorola, etc to bring us our
favourite smartphones, no matter whenever we resided in the country. In a way,
Advanced Group is the brand name that bought us era-defining hip and cool new phones
into our hands.
And the man responsible for this growth of the telecommunications industry has recently endeavored to create his very own blog-site, EssaMerchant.com to bring to us the lessons that he has learnt spending over half his life in this industry.