Hippo Homes announces Grand Opening

· Over 10,000 sq. ft store located at Grand Venice Mall, Gautam Buddha Nagar makes homemaking and home renovation experience convenient and simpler for individual home buyers and homeowners

· Hippo Homes has emerged as a ‘trusted expert’to help realize Individual Home buyer’s ‘Dream Home’

Greater Noida, 10th July 2024: Dalmia Bharat Enterprise promoted ‘Hippo Homes’, a premier Omnichannel provider of home building, home renovation and interior solutions, has announced the grand opening of its flagship retail store in Greater Noida at Grand Venice Mall. The new store, which is the third Hippo Homes store in India, was inaugurated byArvind Mediratta MD & CEO, Hippo Homes in the presence of key partners and senior leadership team of Hippo Homes in India.

This will be the second home improvement store of Hippo Homes in Noida, after its flagship store in Garden Galleria Mall. The new store opens up a whole new experience for new home buyers and home renovation and improvement customers as Hippo Homes offer ‘One stop shop’ for all home related products and services under ‘one roof’. The new store is a testament to Hippo’s propositionofreliable quality, transparent pricing, on time installation and delivery.

Spread over 10,000 sq.ft., the new store is strategically located at Grand Venice mall and houses over 10,000 products from 100+ leading home building and improvement brands. Apart from an outstanding product range, the new store also provides product recommendations, design inspiration and expert guidance by in-store specialists. The new store hasa shop in shop (SIS) model along with live experience zones and sample set-ups of bathrooms and modular kitchens to provide a realistic and reliable experience. In addition, the store also offers Virtual Reality (VR) technology to showcase contemporary kitchen, bathrooms and living rooms design options to home owners.

Speaking about Hippo Homes robust and sustainable expansion strategy, Mr. Arvind Mediratta, MD and CEO said, “While home buying and construction is a significant investment for individual home buyers, renovations and home improvements remain the most challenging aspect of homeownership. To ease modern home buyer’s woes of frustrating experience of dealing with multiple vendors, opaque pricing and unreliable quality and service; Hippo Homes is on a robust mission to make building ‘Dream Homes’ simpler for customers. Being a trusted partner for new

home buyer and homeowners, Hippo providessuperior in-store experience through a team of seasoned interior designers andproduct specialists”

He further added, “We are elated to bring Hippo homes’ robust home making expertiseto Greater Noida, a strategic and growing real-estate market in Delhi NCR. We are strengthening our foothold in the NCR region, and Noida remains a priority market for us. As part of our expansion strategy, we shall continue investing to add more stores in the state.”

The new experiential store houses range of all modern home improvement solutions in key consumer driven categories such as Bath & Sanitary ware, Modular kitchens and Wardrobes, Tiles & flooring, Electrical & Lightening, Kitchen Appliances, Paints & Wallpaper, Wood & Laminates, Home Essentials & Décor, Hardware & tools The robust category of home needs and solution caters to all urbane individual home buyers and home owners, Contractors, Retailers, Institution as well as architects, interior designers, applicators, home decorators. In addition, home owners can meet Hippo’s expert team of designers to provide live demonstrations of latest home improvement products and technologies.