Harpo’s Marketplace brings fresh and ‘simply local’ flavours home

Harpo and the Marketplace production team 

• Concept aims to promote local start-ups, home cooks and vendors
• Added convenience with Harpo’s Marketplace delivery app

Harpo’s Marketplace, a retail outlet, was launched at the Harpo’s Pizza & Pasta restaurant in Ethul Kotte earlier this week, focusing on bringing fresh flavours home.

In the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with people increasingly moving to grocery stores, supermarkets and specialty stores for home-cooked meals, Harpo’s Marketplace has stepped in to fill a gap in this new retail environment with a range of ‘simply local’ products that elevate home-cooked meals.

Harpo’s Marketplace is an extension of Harpo’s retail range launched in 2018 which now features 31 fresh, homemade products, available in all leading supermarkets and constantly expanding.

The emphasis of the concept at Harpo’s Marketplace is to promote ‘simply local’ products, from local start-ups and home cooks to vendors who emerged during pandemic or before, who offer fresh, hygienically prepared and eco-friendly local food items.

Based on this distinct retail list, Harpo’s Marketplace will follow a differentiation strategy that will provide unique local choices to its patrons. 

The products featured at the opening earlier this week included local chutneys, pickles, cookie and cake mixes, a range of spices, confectionary, a new gelato range and some unique lifestyle products of cane crafts and handmade pottery with exclusive designs for Marketplace.

Adding even more convenience is the Harpo’s Marketplace delivery app, bringing Harpo’s Marketplace products to doorsteps, ensuring consumers can enjoy these exciting fresh flavours in their home effortlessly. Delivery will be available in Colombo and the suburbs with expansion plans also on the cards.

“I am excited to launch the Marketplace to feature ‘simply local’ products with our own retail range of pizza and the fresh pasta range and sauces, while adding new products on to our list such as infused oils, pickles and some unique items. An important part of my concept is to provide a platform for young startups and home cooks to promote their products along with established brands to enjoy the journey together,” asserted MD Harpo Gooneratne.

Check out Harpo’s Marketplace and experience fresh local tastes and flavours, while supporting ‘simply local’.