Online furniture vendor Urban Ladder will add 1,400 employees to its workforce this year to beef up its rapid expansion plan. The Bengaluru-based company’s current headcount is 600 across seven cities. The company is also planning to expand its presence to 25 more cities, including Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata and Vizag, by 2015-end and to add more product lines and categories to its existing portfolio.
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