Myntra, part of Flipkart, appointed Ambarish Kenghe as Senior Vice President and Head of Product. Ambarish will start working at Myntra’s Bengaluru headquarters by the end of this month and will report to CEO, Mukesh Bansal to scale up Myntra’s product road map. His task at the app-based retailer will include “leveraging the mobile smartphone […]
Quikr, one of India’s top three classifieds provider, today officially launched a new company logo. “The evolution of the company’s brand is also in sync with the evolution of Quikr’s users who have high aspirations, and have increasingly started using Quikr across a variety of categories such as cars, real estate, goods, services and jobs […]
Flipkart, India’s largest online marketplace launched the ‘Seller Advantage Week’—an initiative in an attempt to woo new sellers to its platform. As a part of Flipkart’s national seller campaign, ‘Apne Sapne Jee Kar Dekho,’ this initiative will offer support and guidance to new sellers to kick-start a hassle-free online journey. Sellers who register with Flipkart […]
Croma, the electronic retail chain from the Tata group, said it intends to expand its initial steps at integrating its physical stores and its ecommerce website croma.com. The integration would make it possible for customers to seamlessly merge the physical and online operation. As a result, they would not only be able to buy on […]
Certain rules suggested by the government of India for possible inclusion in its upcoming e-commerce policy have drawn opposition from industry bodies. Key among these are the conditions that payment collection, packing and delivery should be made the responsibility of the seller and not the intermediary website (such as Flipkart and Amazon). The Department of […]
Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecom service providers, has entered into a strategic tie-up with Walmart India, the wholly owned subsidiary of world’s largest retailer Walmart Stores Inc for mobile payments. The tie-up will enable business members of six Best Price Modern Wholesale stores, owned and operated by Walmart India, to make payments using […]
Global e-Commerce sales made via mobile devices are expected to cross $638 billion by 2018, according to the joint study brought out by ASSOCHAM and Deloitte said. Currently, the availability of e-Commerce applications on various mobility devices is helping to drive sales and revenue, Assocham said. “E-tailers like Flipkart, Amazone and Jabong now get 50% […]
Retailer Shoppers Stop said it would invest Rs 60 crores over the next 3 years to build up an ‘omnichannel’ delivery platform that would encompass physical stores, web, social, TV and marketplaces. It has chosen SAP as its technology solutions partner. The move would involve its group companies HomeStop, Hypercity and Crossword as well. By […]
Online retailer Flipkart announced a strategic partnership with three of the country’s largest home retail brands—Home Town (Future group), HomeStop (Shoppers Stop) and @Home to sell home decor items. “The partnerships will introduce a whole new range of products from these retail brands—adding to Flipkart’s existing portfolio of 1000+ brands with seven lakhs home products,” […]
Infibeam Incorporation Ltd, which some call the fourth or the fifth biggest online portal in India, has filed for a Rs 450 cr initial public offer with the markets regulator. With this, the company has beaten Flipkart, which was widely expected to be the first online shopping portal to go public, to the bourses. Infibeam.com […]
Flipkart has been ranked second in top book sellers in the world according to a survey called ‘Top 40 Global Bookstore Mind Share,’ (BMS index). This survey which has assessed both offline as well as online book sellers across the globe has ranked Flipkart ahead of companies like Barnes & Noble of the United States, […]
It looks like Flipkart is very eager to get some of its exclusive items moving off its shelves, going by the kind of offers and discounts that the online retailer is offering today – the last day of its Big App Shopping Days. The best offers in the electronic segments are the following. Xiaomi Mi […]
After Flipkart and Amazon, it’s the turn of Infibeam.com to offer its own ‘big bang’ sale, from Monday through Wednesday. “Various global electronics brands including Apple, Microsoft, LG, Samsung, HP, Philips along with several national brands such as Micromax, Intex and many others will be offering their products in the Big Bang Sale,” the company […]
e-commerce in India is set to cross $16 billion in sales by the end of this year, according to an ASSOCHAM- Deloitte joint study released today. The digital commerce market in India has grown steadily from $4.4 billion in 2010 to $13.6 billion in 2014 and likely to touch $16 billion by the end of […]
