Profiled: Pick 'n' Drop

Ever heard of Pick 'N' Drop - "a new and innovative service which makes the hassle of drycleaning as easy as answering your door! No need to worry about when or where you send your drycleaning."

I wouldn't be surprised if you hadn't - because they've only been in operation two weeks! We were lucky enough to meet the three young entrepreneurs behind Pick 'N' Drop at our Young Entrepreneurs Workshop at the Sutherland Shire Hub for Economic Development just a couple of weeks ago.

Pick 'N' Drop will pick up your clothes for dry cleaning, and then drop them back when they're clean! They operate in the CBD, Eastern Suburbs and North Shore.

Nallakkumar Karunanithy, one of the three directors, explains below the motivation for starting up a business with his good friends and how the idea came about.

"The opportunity came to us during our brainstorming sessions, all three of us strive in challenging ourselves and we decided to start up our own business, regardless of the industry, just to gain the experience and thrill of doing something for our own benefit rather than working for a particular company or individual. We studied available markets and decided we needed to introduce something innovative and fresh, the Sydney business market/s is flooded with competition, so to start anything in one of those markets would have been near impossible without an endless supply of marketing capital...which we did not have. Our service is practically unheard of, so once we tap into the industry and spread the word, we have no doubt that our service will be useful. Pinpointing the idea was as easy as looking for a particular need in a market, that was not currently being satisfied, and the pick up and drop off idea really caught our attention as being a viable project to look into."

On the first week of operation:
"Things are slow, as always at the start of anything but we've had a few calls/orders and the people using the seem interested, so it looks promising."

And just a little bit about the three directors:
"We're all 23yr olds, known each other through university of Wollongong. I'm doing a Bachelor of Computer Science, my partner Amir does a Bachelor of Exercise Science and Rehabilitation. We're both graduate students who just completed our last semesters, and our third partner is Jay, who's doing a Bachelor of Medical Science and he completes his course at the end of the year. We're more like brothers than mates so its another reason as to why we decided to do this together."

Good luck guys!

http://www.pickndrop.com.au/