The Great India (GI) Retail Group leverages the power of Innovation and Technology to enable the aspiring Indian business men and self employed to improve the standard of living and also enhance the business competitiveness and efficiency using GI’s products and services.
About us

Who we are

GI Retail started in the year of 2009 to provide consumer focused technology enabled products and services to enable and aspiring Indian to improve the standard of living.

Currently GI Retail is focussed on building enterprise solutions using cutting edge technologies including IoT & Artificial Intelligence in the logistics, hospitality & financial services industries to enable the aspiring Indian business men and self employed to improve the standard of living and also enhance the business competitiveness and efficiency using GI’s products and services.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

GI Retail has developed applications on Artificial Intelligence for the hospitality industry.

We have developed several Artificial intelligence applications for the hospitality industry which will increase the Income and Growth of the hotel or travel provider because of better Executive decision, innovation, insights and faster time in execution of actionable items. This is achieved through superior Data Analytics.


Insta COBE

Chat bot

Robotic Process Automation

AI driven customer recommendation engine

AI Based End To End Receivables Management

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

GI Retail has developed applications on Artificial Intelligence products by blending three advanced technologies – machine learning, natural language processing and cognitive computing.

We have developed several Artificial intelligence applications for the Fintech industry which will increase the Income and Growth of the FI because of better Executive decision, innovation, insights and faster time in execution of actionable items. This is achieved through superior Data Analytics. Our AI solution can cater to technologies such as Facial Recognition as well as OCR integration for matching customer remittances to invoices generated, popularly known as Cash Application Automation Technologies


Insta COBE

Chat bot

Robotic Process Automation

AI driven customer recommendation engine

AI Based End To End Receivables Management

Logistics

GI Smart E Cargos Private Limited

An integrated logistics company with technology at its heart thereby enabling customers do smart cargo movement and enhancing Corporate India’s global competitiveness. GI Smart E Cargos has made substantial investment into creating the most calculated and intuitive technologies using IoT and operational systems in the Cargo and logistics industry today to enhance the efficiency and lowering total cost of logistics to Corporate India.

India’s first online cargo and storage solutions company targeting fastest movement of high value and time sensitive cargo within India and abroad. The Cargo Store focuses on Customer centricity as a mission, carefully designing the customer experience with the frontline fully empowered to ensure timely submission of everything from documentation to delivery along with with real time tracking of cargo.

India’s first online cargo and storage solutions company targeting fastest movement of high value and time sensitive cargo within India and abroad. The Cargo Store focuses on Customer centricity as a mission, carefully designing the customer experience with the frontline fully empowered to ensure timely submission of everything from documentation to delivery along with with real time tracking of cargo.

We are proud of our achievements


GI retail has served more than 60 million customers for travel and payment services across all our agent network in 2014

Over the past years, we meted out more than 35 million money transfer accounts for financial institutions, including our own ICASH wallet

On peak days, we process about US$10 million in payments.

In 2014 our flagship travel website GetMyTrip was recognized as "Best Travel Portal" at the India Travel Awards.

In 2015 GI Retail bagged "Best Prepaid Card Programme (Scholar Card)" at elets Knowledge Exchange Awards.


ICASH is the customary payment method on Indian Railways (IRCTC), India's leading e-commerce site

In 2014 we were pegged as "Winner Financial Inclusion through Innovation" at India's Financial Inclusion Conference

We act as payments and ticketing partner for Indian Railways and more than 120 domestic and international airlines, including Air India, Indigo and Jet Airways

We were recognized by NPCI's National Payments Excellence Award for being the largest processor of IMPS payments in India in 2014.

In 2015, we became the winners of NPCI's National Payments Excellence Award in the category Prepaid Payment Issuer.

Some of the successful subsidiaries of GI Retail

GREAT INDIA (GI) RETAIL PRIVATE LIMITED

India’s No. 1 Retail assisted E-Commerce network with more than 2 Lakhs agents across in India & Philippines. Hermes provides services such as Travel, Money transfer, E-commerce payments. GI Retail exited this business in 2015 -2016.


GI Technology’s ICashCard is India’s largest prepaid payment instrument & non-bank player using IMPS platform for domestic money transfer and is used by more than 14 million people across India.

It had been awarded/recognized by National payment excellence award three years in a row.

GI Retail has entered into a Joint venture in 2016 with Germany’s Wirecard bank for further expansion of this business.

  • Phone  :+91 44 66506001
  • C-9, Thiru Vi Ka Industrial Estate
  • Guindy, Chennai - 600032
  • Tamil Nadu