In the age of using platforms to reach maximum consumers, a few brands and companies are eliminating the middlemen to have a direct connection with their consumers. These Direct-to-Consumer brands are trying their best to sell their products via their platform/ store to build a more loyal customer base. The year 2020 saw exponential growing popularity for D2C startups as the business model was accepted by many. Health and nutrition startups work a lot on D2C model, a few such promising startups are: OZiva - OZiva, a leading clean plant-based nutrition brand in India has a variety of products for daily fitness and lifestyle, nutra-cosmetics for hair, and skincare for all age groups. Founded in the year 2016, by co-founders Mihir Gadani & Aarti Gill, they are committed to supporting every single person who wants to be a better version of themselves and wants to ensure that people achieve the best fitness, physically & mentally, with High-Quality Clean Nutrition - the one that the body truly deserves. OZiva products are available at: https://www.oziva.in/ and other e-commerce platforms like Flipkart, Amazon, Nykaa, etc. They also have exciting offers and sales on their platform. Upakarma Ayurveda - Upakarma Ayurveda, India’s fastest growing Ayurvedic Brand founded in the year 2017 by Brother Duo - Vishal Kaushik and Parag Kaushik, has established itself as a trusted brand for genuine-quality products. Its conventional media use along with constant social media presence and engagement with educational messaging has increased its customer base and involvement significantly and has resulted in a fifty-fold increase in clicks on its websites during the lockdown. Upakarma Ayurveda started on a very small scale with a few hundred customers and is now closing up to 50,000 orders per month. The brand has seen over 100 percent year-on-year rise in its revenues and putting faith in D2C strategy; it has seen its sales surge by 55-60 percent during the pandemic.

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