Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in India, on Tuesday tied up with the country’s largest lender State Bank of India to enable its over 2.6 million retailers and 5000 distributors to conduct business transactions digitally.
The bank will initiate the retailers in the digitisation process with its digital payment options like Buddy P2P, Buddy Merchant, App, SBI Pay.
“We would train the retailers not only in our product but also about the loans that they could possible access. I am sure we would be able to get all of these people who are today dealing in cash to the digital payment,” SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya told reporters here.
She said loans to the retailers would be given based on their actual turnover.
