Amazon.in's Telangana Triumph: 2x Surge in TV and 5G Smartphone Sales
Amazon.in recently revealed an impressive surge in demand within Telangana. During the festive season, this dynamic region experienced a remarkable…
From Small Business to Success: How E-Commerce is Helping Women Entrepreneurs Thrive
This is rightly said to be India’s coming decade of outperformance. Besides its technology and budding manufacturing prowess, India is at a…
How Amazon will Continue to Build its Core Businesses in 2023
Becoming India’s most visited and trusted online marketplace in just nine years is a testament to the numerous firsts that Amazon has introduced both…
How Checkout-free Stores, Non-food Specialist Stores are Set For Rapid International Expansion?
Checkout-free stores and non-food specialist stores are likely to continue to expand internationally post the pandemic period. Also, Amazon’s stores…
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How Amazon is Planning to Expand its Fulfillment Network
As Amazon’s flagship festive sale Great Indian Festive Sale is coming to an end, Amazon has claimed to have onboarded 3 lakh, new sellers, since 2020…
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E-commerce Exports In Singapore Have Massive Potential for Growth in Next Five Years
The B2B e-commerce exports in Singapore are expected to reach $3.5 billion in 2026 from  $1.4 billion in 2021, provided the micro, small and medium…
Prime Day: How Amazon Business is Supporting MSMEs?
The pandemic in the last 18 months has led to accelerated digital adoption around us. Amazon.in the marketplace is no different and it has grown to…
How Consumers are Making the Most of 2 mn Deals Offered on Amazon Prime Day
Amazon is offering more than 2 million deals for Prime members in 20 countries on Prime Day that started on June 21. The savings extravaganza has…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Fashion Innovation?
The impact of Covid-19 on the global fashion industry has been multifaceted: on one hand, the government-imposed lockdowns forced retailers to shut…
Amazon V/S Future Group: Fight of Dominance over India's $1 trillion Consumer Retail Market
Amazon, the US-based e-commerce giant, and India’s Future Group have locked horns over a deal since the latter agreed to sell its retail assets to …
Time for Change: Challenges and Implications for Apparel and Textile Manufacturers
Amid lockdown, the apparel and textile manufacturing sector experienced a double-digit decline from store closures and stay at home orders from the…
?Make in India' is Going to go Global at Massive Stage: Amit Agarwal, Amazon India
E-commerce is at nascent stages in India given that it is hardly even 3 percent of the country's total retail consumption, said Amit Agarwal, Global…
Importance of having a Go-to-Market Strategy Before Launching On Amazon
Do you want to grow your ecommerce business? Well, who would say “No” to that? Nevertheless, while there are many ways to do so, launching on Amazon…
The pursuit of winning the great Indian kirana race
These days we all are sitting at home due to ongoing lockdown and trying to do everything digitally. In this digital story, when you look at buring …
How Amazon India is planning to win the upcoming festive season?
With the approaching festive season internet biggies including Google and Facebookare leaving no stone unturned to make the best out of event. Among…
Rising demands in e-retail segment fast-tracking supply chain
The e-retail industry is one of the fastest growing industries in India. Driven by increased digital penetration, a rise in ownership of…
5 things to know about new ecommerce policy
The government has tightened guidelines for FDI in e-commerce market places, barring players, including Amazon and Flipkart, from selling exclusive-…
Top 5 strategies that successful brands are using
Today we as consumer receive five times more information every day than we did 30 years ago. Moreover, technology has completely dominated that was…
Why ‘smaller’ towns are big players this festive sale season?
For over 100 million middle class families in tier II, III cities and beyond, this festival season is as exciting and joyous as the 400-odd…
How millennials are changing the consumption story of India?
Millennial, between the age group of 18 and 35 years of age is becoming the driver force in consumer markets and redefining India’s consumption story…
How Indian retail is finding its ways amid amid ecommerce and malls?
The Changing Dynamics of Indian Retail The Indian retail sector is on a faster roll than ever before. Rapid urbanization and digitization, rising…
How marketing automation platforms are transforming Retail Sector?
A few years back, experts predicted that brick-and-mortar is on its last leg. Contrastingly, retail is entering an entirely new era now. Online…
How health supplements are changing conventional retail shelve?
Currently healthcare segment growth has started but hasn’t boomed yet. It has yet to come and that is expected soon. The way nutritional education…
Google, Amazon and Jio are India's Most Influential Brands: Ipsos
Google is ranked among the most influential brand closely followed by online retailer Amazon while Jio is on third spot. This data has been released…
3 tips to have perfect ‘Size Guide’ for your ecommerce website!
‘Returns’ are inevitable in e-commerce. As per industry data, the return rates follows between 30 to 40% of the merchandise that have been purchased…
Four Voice assistants’ trends that are changing the retail sector
You never grow old enough to not give into your mom’s sentiments. It was the auspicious Akashya Tritihya and her instruction was clear ‘if not gold…
How small companies can compete with Flipkart and Amazon?
India’s e-commerce market is expected to hit $200 billion by 2026 as per the report published by Morgan Stanley last year.  We if look at market…
3 Big Business Problems that every e-commerce company is looking to Solve with Machine Learning
A lot has been changed in ecommerce worldwide and the emerging role of machine learning vouches to change things even further. A study by Gartner…
The transformation of Indian shopping festivals
New Delhi: Indian consumers have evolved in making their purchases through different channels. And keeping pace with their demands, retailers, e-…
An analysis of the e-commerce growth in India
By: Mayur Saraswat, Head Sales- Digital, TeamLease Services With Walmart acquiring majority stake in Flipkart, everybody is watching this sector…
The next phase of White Revolution is here
New Delhi: Lately the grocery segment and more precisely delivering milk at everyone’s doorstep as a business opportunity has been creating a lot…
Myntra, Amazon announce discount war with 50-80% off
New Delhi: The sale season is back with country’s two e-commerce biggies including Amazon and Myntra hosting summer sale with steep discounts in…
5 mandatory steps to design and start a robust B2B e-commerce website
Apart from the business to customer vertical, there is another dimension in the supply chain that is having a good time with the advent of the online…
What's common between Walmart-Flipkart and Amazon
New Delhi: The recent developments in Indian’s online grocery segment have indicated an intense battle heating up between Walmart-Flipkart and…
Why Walmart India is staying away from food-only retail biz
New Delhi: The 77% Flipkart stake acquisition has led Walmart to penetrate Indian market deeper, yet the later is yet not up to take up India’s…
Flipkart-Walmart Deal: Who is Benefited from whom?
In brick world, Walmart is the father of the retail world. All retailers and retail professionals must have read the autobiography of Sam Walton, i…
CPG Industry gets a makeover for better consumer experience
The Consumer Packaged Goods industry is undergoing massive transformation, thanks to the emerging digital technologies impacting companies across…
Retail sector sees a 19% growth which is higher than IT and BPM
Giving wings to the Digital India initiative which has steadily gained popularity, the ecommerce sector in the country has registered some rather…
This is how food industry has become a major contributor for eCommerce this year
Traffic, space crunch and long queues- reasons for giving a miss to the nearest grocery store or a restaurant are aplenty. With buying food online…
Online Milk delivery: A new milkman has arrived!
Do you remember the time when milkman used to deliver dairy fresh milk right to your doorstep? Well, those were days when most of the milk…
Flexible digital trade distribution aiding global commerce operations
E-commerce as a channel is fast changing both buying and selling experience. Although much has been said about buying convenience, there is a…
Is e-commerce killing the fundamentals of its establishment?
What’s with e-commerce these days you may ask? Apart from rolling out massive discounts or attractive offers every other month, tens of hundreds of…
How biscuit companies are going through ‘Makeover’ exercise to increase the market share?
Biscuit, a popular snacking item in India has scaled a long journey from simple snacking item to rich cookies.  If we can trace back the journey,…
Will Reliance Jio’s e-commerce foray be disruptive?
The Indian e-commerce industry has been on an upward growth trajectory and is expected to surpass the US to become the second largest e-commerce…
How Performance marketing is helping retailers meet their needs?
India’s E- commerce and retail industry has witnessed a massive breakthrough in the last five years. It has evolved from a product-oriented…
INDIAN RETAIL – PICTURE ABHI BAAKI HAI MERE RETAILERS
The Indian Retail Industry is poised to grow exponentially in next 10 years. The demographics of our country are screaming loudly about the…
E-Commerce Paving Its Way Further into the Hinterlands of India
The past few years have seen a sort of revolution in India in the online shopping market. Increasing e-commerce penetration into India’s…
How Can Artificial Intelligence Transform The Retail Industry
A quick search on your phone is no longer a one-way communication. From leading you to your nearby store to helping the retailers understand the…
How personalization is transforming Retail?
Personalisation was always an important aspect and with the advent of e-commerce it has become mandatory all retailers to personalized the entire…
Flipkart rules the fast growing non metro market, Amazon has a slight lead in Metros : Study
RedSeer has released its quarterly e-tailing leadership index for the April-June Quarter. The index is a view on how customers perceive the e-…
The retail ecosystem illustrates a productive future ahead
Retail therapy is healing. Proof is the contribution of 10% to India’s GDP, accounts for 8% of employment, occupies 75 million sq ft of real estate…
5 things to know about Alibaba’s 'New Retail' foray!
Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company is poised to grow in India. In fact, this Chinese e-commerce has already started setting up its…
Why Snapdeal and Flipkart deal fell apart?
It has been about six months since Snapdeal and Flipkart were in discussion for possible merger. The deal could have make sense for both the…
Which category is ruling the e-commerce world?
Indian e-commerce industry is growing exponentially. Online retail is catching on fast, not just in larger metros but also in the Tier II and Tier…
How brands such as ‘Voonik’ are winning customers?
How the product is displayed to customers either in online channel or offline makes a lot of difference. Merchandise assortment planning should be…
Disrupting the last mile of E-commerce logistics in India
The challenge   Inspite of increasing deployment of technologies over the last few years, the Indian e-tailing industry continues to face…
How Snapdeal and Flipkart acquisition makes sense for Indian companies?
OH!!!, "East is East", and "West is West", and never the twain shall meet, sang Rudyard Kipling. The Dragon Connection - Amazon in China &…
How Indian MSMEs can leverage from e-commerce sector?
The impact of e-commerce is briskly changing the mechanism of global business. Though the e-commerce phenomenon is more than 25 years old today, it…
Flipkart has the highest share of big-spending online shoppers on its platform:Report
E-tailing: With orders getting delivered faster than ever before, online shoppers have never had it so good.   E-tailers have brought down average…
Online and multi-brand retailers still have plenty to learn from each other, despite building strong customer loyalty: Study
  Global loyalty marketing agency ICLP (A Collinson Group Company) has revealed a research showing where different retail sectors are performing…
Big Insight, not Big data-rise of the Insight driven business!
Companies don’t decide how customer centric they are, they cannot rate themselves on this. In today’s age of the customer, it’s your wife or my…
How E-wallets pushed online buying during note-ban
Aimed at curbing corruption and black money, government’s announcement of demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes has had a big impact on the online…
How Indian e-retailers survived 2016..
In 2016, about 69 million consumers purchased online and the number is expected to cross 100 million by 2017 with the rise of digital natives,…
CashKaro may be profitable in next 18 to 20 months
The Gurgaon-based  cashback  and  coupon website CashKaro.com  which has raised Rs 25 crore in its Series A funding round from Kalaari Capital in…
Toonz Retail to make Rs 5 crore investment to come up with 10 new stores
Toonz Retail, a one stop shop for all the needs of kids from 0-12 years of age, has announced the launch of 10 stores in December 2016, further…
Forrester survey reveals the best customer service provider online portals list
According to Forrester's India Customer Experience Index, 2016, Amazon and Bigbasket have championed in the race of customer service in India,…
Amazon and Flipkart under scanner for cheating customers
During the festive season, all the e-commerce marketplaces starts showering offers and discounts on customers. Being dipped totally in festival…
HP Inc. ties-up with watch licensing partners
HP Inc., an American technology company, is all set to push its new range of smart watches this month, as part of a tie-up with the watch licensing…
Amazon.com to deliver food products st your doorstep
In the latest news, as reported by The Wall Street journal, it seems like Amazon.com is planning to try its hands on building convenience stores…
Online Diwali Sale: How Shopclues nabbed 5X hike in its net business
As eCommerce festive season sales extravaganza has already hit the market, online retailers of the country have started to bolster consumers with…
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eCommerce biggies to hike ad rates post the whooping festive sale response
Eyeing at the ongoing pre- Diwali sales, Indian eCommerce majors such as Snapdeal and Flipkart have extensively increased their advertising rates…
Flipkart & Amazon lead the chart; orders from Tier II cities roar this festive season
As the much awaited festive season has started, Indian online marketplaces, by all means, have rolled out their festive sales campaigns giving out…
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HTC to launch 3 4G phones this Diwali on its e-store on Amazon
Since the festival of lights Diwali is round the corner, each and every brand is scouting a new plan and strategy to entice customers. HTC has also…
Wal-Mart wants to invest $1 million in Flipkart to acquire minor stakes
US retail giant, Wal-Mart has shown a keen interest in India's leading online marketplace Flipkart. As per the recent development, US retailer is…
Alibaba ropes in Madhur Deep as its Sr VP of team India
In an interesting move, Alibaba has hired former McKinsey and Goldman Sachs executive Madhur Deep who will be heading its strategy and investment…
LeEco fishes for Amazon & Snapdeal's assistance to ramp up its online sales
Seeing the big festive season around the corner, LeEco has partnered with Amazon and Snapdeal to sell its devices through their online platforms…
OnePlus to cash on 'touch and feel' experience of customers
OnePlus, Chinese premium smartphone maker, has decided to cash in on 'touch and feel' factor which is a very popular exercise which customer follow…
Snapdeal, Amazon and Flipkart will be soon equipped with products from Rajasthan handloom
In a spree of making its products available to online consumers, Rajasthan State Handloom Development Corporation (RHDC) has initiated talks with…
Flipkart will sell iPhone 7 In India from October 7
Flipkart, India's leading online marketplace, has partnered with Apple to sell the much awaited product, iPhone 7 through its lattice. This time,…
Here is why Urban Ladder has partnered with its arch rival
No doubt India today stands as one of the most prominent countries with an exponentially high potential in online retailing. Betting on the…
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How are eRetailers gearing up for the 'Very Merry' festive season sale?
It is the time when your email gets bombarded with various flash sales mails, landing page of eCommerce sites flushed with upcoming sales promo etc…
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Flipkart signs licensing deals to cement its leadership in fashion biz
Flipkart, India’s leading online marketplace, is on the move to further garnish its online fashion and lifestyle segment. As per the recent…
Amazon sets the ball rolling for sellers as it welcomes the festive season
Amazon India might set the ball rolling for its sellers as it gears up to welcome the upcoming festive season. The global online marketplace is…
Bewakoof to make another attempt to enter the brick & mortar retail space
Bewakoof.com, five year old fashion and lifestyle portal, is now shifting gears to enter into the brick and mortar retail space. The move came…
Government's new card for ecommerce may change the game for big players
Government of India is now planning to further back the ecommerce sector of the country. In its recent move, the Centre is looking forward to…
TCL marks its entry in Indian smartphone and TV category
TCL is all set to explore the Indian electronic market as the company has recently launched smartphone and TV sets in the country. The Chinese…
Amazon rolls out its global Prime membership service in India
India’s online marketplace is getting all heated up with tough competitions and every day, companies are rolling out new services to allure more…
Flipkart and Amazon crown Durian as the leading seller on their Lattice
Durian, known for providing exquisitely designed furniture adds another feather in its cap. With more than 1000 orders placed on Flipkart and…
Himalaya to expand its e-commerce business to achieve 100 crore target by 2018
Moved by the ecommerce revolution of the country, Herbal health and personal care firm Himalaya Drug Company is gearing up to further ramp up its…
Flipkart to build its payments business; Plans to invest Rs 670 crore
Flipkart is shifting its gears to ramp up its operations for its payments business. The online retailer is planning to invest around Rs 670 crore…
Alarms ringing for Flipkart as two more senior executives hit the exit door
Flipkart, one of India’s leading online marketplaces which has revolutionized the concept of shopping in India has fallen in trouble again. With…
Sonipat gets India's largest fulfilment centre launched by Amazon India
In its spree of becoming the leading online marketplace of India, Amazon has added one more armory in its kitty. The US based firm has recently…
IKEA to invest a mammoth sum of Rs 1500 crore in Mumbai
IKEA, one of the leading furniture retailer brands is eyeing Mumbai as its next hot destination to explore the Indian market. According to the…
How analytics helps eCommerce companies increase conversions?
The age of discounts, sadly, is coming to an end.  For e-retailers, VC money is getting harder to come by and investors are, more and more,…
Returning electronic items will be a tough nut to crack on Snapdeal
In this cut throat competition where online marketplaces are floating customer centric policies, Snapdeal has gone the other way. One of India’s…
BigBasket ready to flush up to Rs 90 crore to rope-in more farmers on its grid
As it was reported earlier that online grocery store BigBasket is ramping up its operations to remove the middleman from its supply chain so that…
Amazon sweeps a big heap over Flipkart: SimilarWeb
In the recent online tug-of-war, where every portal is trying its best to attract more-and-more customers on to its grid, global giant Amazon has…
D'Decor plans to opt for ecommerce platform to spread its wings
D'décor, the company best known for home décor and furnishing is planning to expand its reach. To hit the target customers, it is aiming to opt for…
Flipkart is leading ahead; Emerges as the most preferred ecommerce lattice
The Indian ecommerce scenario is witnessing lots of ups and downs and in this cut-throat competition; Flipkart has managed to keep an extra edge…
Flipkart is in no mood to generate fresh funding
In the recent Indian startup scenario, where every new venture is trying to fetch as much funding as it could, one of India’s e-commerce major,…
The economics of same-day delivery in eCommerce
In today’s dynamic digital retailing environment, delivery has become a key factor in defining the future of a lot of eCommerce companies. Today…
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Paytm, Alibaba to provide Indian sellers an option to source 5 million Chinese products
Alibaba and Paytm are all set to provide a podium to the Indian sellers to sell five million products from China at a cheaper rate. In its recent…
Flipkart eye marks China to get cheaper products
Flipkart fancies China to source cheaper products and make the offerings on its platform more wide-ranging and attractive. The company has tied up…
Flipkart brings back ex-employees to revive in eCommerce war
In a bid to get back on the driving seat of the eCommerce industry of the country, the online marketplace Flipkart is now trying to bring back its…
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Amazon India witnesses annual growth of 250% in sellers
Amazon recently observed a 250 per cent year-on-year growth in inviting new sellers on board as it looks to creating a niche in the booming…
How is Modi govt using eCommerce to magnify the handloom brand?
Banking on the exponentially rising eCommerce in India, the union Ministry of textile has brought as many as 14 leading eCommerce entities to…
Seeking better B2B horizons, AmazonBusiness eyes expansion
AmazonBusiness, a marketplace on Amazon.com for businesses for all sizes is now planning to expand to new cities in order to nab a bigger pie of…
Reshuffling tech leadership team, Flipkart onboards Micromax CTO Ashish Agrawal
Home-grown eCommerce major Flipkart has recently roped in Micromax CTO Ashish Agrawal as the Senior Vice President- Engineering as the company is…
US businesses to invest $45 billion in India in 3 years
Looks like Narendra Modi’s US visits has always been a moment for euphoria for Indian-US relationship and business ties. This is his fourth visit…
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Flipkart shrinks product return window from 30 days to 10
In a bid to narrow the back and forth hassles, country’s eCommerce major Flipkart has recently altered its return-time window by 20 days. Unlike…
Here is how Yepme broke monopoly of Flipkart, Amazon & Myntra?
Admit it that retail is no more a cakewalk now, especially when a bevy of international brands is entering India and brands are leaving no stone…
India Post issues first My Stamp on eCommerce; features Amazon
India Post has released its first ever eCommerce centric ‘My Stamp’ with Amazon India to signify 3 years of its relationship with the eRetailer.…
Why is product photography crucial for eRetail?
A picture speaks a thousand words! This adage couldn't have been truer for online product photography. It is the "first-point-of-contact" with the…