IGP (e-gifting retailer) Karamchand Appliances and Tarun Joshi, Director, PE firm, 3i. In December 2017, the company raised an undisclosed amount of Pre Series funding from the VC firm, Venture Catalysts. IGP (e-gifting retailer) IGP (formerly known as IndianGiftsPortal) is an Indian online gifting company based in Mumbai, India founded in 1999. IGP claims to be the largest platform for Indian ethnic products and gifts and has the largest collection of products that caters to Indian festivals and events. IGP has five warehouses, including one in the US. IGP earlier known as IndianGiftsPortal was founded in 1999 by B2B e-commerce company IndiaMART and
Gadzooks (retailer) Gadzooks (retailer) Gadzooks, Inc. was a mall-based teenage clothing retailer. It was acquired by Forever 21 in 2005 and then shut down. The company logo included the Volkswagen Beetle and all stores had a life-size version of part of a Beetle inside. The company was founded in 1983 as a T-shirt business by Jerry Szczepanski and Larry Titus. The first store was in Mesquite, Texas. By 1992, the company had 33 stores in Texas. In 1995, the company became a public company via an initial public offering and within 3 months, the share price quadrupled from $15 to $61. That