New Delhi: In continuation of its endeavour to provide innovative and delightful customer experience, HomeShop18, the online & on-air retail marketing and distribution venture of Network18 Group will bring Santa Claus to your doorstep this Christmas & New Year. In a unique customer engagement initiative, over 300 delivery boys across 12 cities would deliver all your Christmas gifts dressed as Santa, spreading joy and cheer this festive season.

The unique delivery service will be available to customers across, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon on all the purchases made from 16th to 31st Dec, 2011.

To make this season of joy even more exciting, HomeShop18 has announced a special promotion ?December Delights?. This exclusive shopping festival offers HomeShop18?s customers an opportunity to win a Volkswagen Polo Highline, a Kindle Fire and exciting daily prizes like cameras, pen drives, watches, speaker systems and more. The festival will also offer mega discounts and combo deals on products from the categories ? Home & Toys, Fashion and Digital. And, all these are for those lucky customers who will rush in time and buy before the stocks end.

Announcing the launch of this new initiative, Atrash Aman, Director, Marketing and Strategy said,?

We at HomeShop18 are in the continuous look out for ways to increase customer engagement in order to make virtual shopping more fun. Christmas is the season of sharing and joy and what better way than having Santa come give you your gifts on your doorstep. This is an extremely exciting and busy season for us as we already see a huge increase in traffic on the ecommerce website?.

With a robust distribution network reaching out to over 3,000 locations and selling over 10 million SKUs and 500 established brands, the e-commerce firm expects its sales to peak as the Christmas shopping season gets into full swing. The company?s revenue stood at Rs 410 crore last fiscal and it aims to double the figure this fiscal through expansion of its operations and distribution chain. HomeShop18 had recently acquired online books retailer CoinJoos.Com and inked an agreement with Korean Trade & Investment Promotion Agency and GS Shop to help small and medium Korean companies to enter the domestic market.