- Flipkart says working on scaling loyalty programme, grocery, fashion biz"Flipkart Plus, which is a very uniquely local loyalty programme, is one very big priority. Second, grocery as a category is something where we want to strengthen our value proposition, especially partnering with the roughly million kirana partners we already have in our ecosystem," Flipkart Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said during a Walmart post-earnings briefing.
- CAIT alleges Amazon, Flipkart, Zomato and Swiggy of flouting rulesCAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said that Rule 10 of Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, provides that e-commerce entities have to display details of the manufacturer, 'country of origin' and common/generic name of the product, MRP, and dimensions of the commodity, among others.
- CAIT complaints on discounts for buying goods from online firms being examined by CCIIn a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash said the government has also received representations from the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) against e-commerce companies. He said those representations were forwarded to the Enforcement Directorate, which has taken up the matter for investigation.
- Flipkart narrows loss to Rs 3,150.6 crore in FY20"During the financial year ended on 31st March 2020, the net total income of company was Rs 34,610.1 crore as against the net total income of Rs 30,934.9 crore in the previous financial year, witnessing an increase of 11.88 per cent in the net total income," documents sourced by business intelligence platform, Tofler said.
- Amazon India deploys Mahindra Electric's electric vehicles in its delivery networkUnder the partnership, Amazon India has deployed close to hundred Mahindra Treo Zor EVs in seven major cities, the companies said in a joint statement. The cities where the electric three-wheeler, Mahindra Treo Zor have been deployed so far include Bengaluru, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Indore and Lucknow.
- Flipkart partners AWPO to onboard Army veterans in workforceSelected personnel will be offered customised induction, sensitisation programmes and curated learning programmes to enable a seamless transition and help them learn the nuances of the various corporate job roles, it added. Flipkart's hiring of ex-servicemen will help provide opportunities to new career paths and offer more options post serving in the armed forces, it said.
- India's Enforcement Directorate to examine findings in report on Amazon: SourceThe Reuters story was based on internal Amazon documents dated between 2012 and 2019. It provided an inside look at the cat-and-mouse game Amazon has played with India's government, adjusting its corporate structures each time the government imposed new restrictions aimed at protecting small traders.
- From the brink to recovery, India's retail sector pins hope on 2021In a year when the COVID-19 carnage ripped apart the retail business, circa 2020 will best go down for the unravelling of the war between Jeff Bezos, the world's wealthiest man, and richest Indian Mukesh Ambani for pre-eminence in the booming market that is estimated to reach USD 1.3 trillion by 2025.
- Flipkart unveils '2GUD Local' to bring popular offline retailers, shopping destinations online2GUD Local will enable local stores (single brand or multi-brand stores and other shopping destinations) and retailers to expand their digital footprint to connect more effectively with their consumers, it added. 2GUD Local has started with KLM Fashion Mall in Bengaluru. Launched in 2017, KLM Fashion Mall has expanded its reach through 17 showrooms in the last three years.
- Walmart plans to increase exports out of India three times to $10 billion by 2027Walmart’s said on Thursday that its export commitment is expected to boost micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in India and the US giant plans to source from hundreds of suppliers in food, pharmaceuticals, consumables, health & wellness, general merchandise, apparel, homeware among other key export categories.
- Flipkart launches SuperCoin Pay to strengthen its rewards programmeUsers will be able to make use of reward points earned on Flipkart to make full or part-payments in more than 5,000 retail stores across India.
- 'KVIC forces Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal to remove fake khadi products'These e-commerce portals were selling products like Khadi masks, herbals soaps, shampoos, cosmetics, herbal mehandi, jackets, kurta and many such products through different sellers using this brand name.
- Amid tensions with China, India warns Amazon, Flipkart over country of origin ruleAmazon has often faced regulatory challenges in India. Last year, the government enforced strict rules for foreign investment in e-commerce which forced the U.S. retail giant to rework its business structures and strained ties between New Delhi and Washington.
- Indian e-commerce will soon outpace ‘modern trade’, Flipkart CEO saysThe pandemic is fundamentally changing how India shops—accelerating the shift to online retail and altering buying patterns, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy says.
- Flipkart puts fresh foods platform plan in cold storageThe Flipkart management is said to be of the view that it will be difficult to drive traffic to, or exploit synergies with, its flagship e-commerce marketplace.
- Flipkart-Aditya Birla Fashion deal gets approval from CCIThe Rs 1,500 crore Flipkart-ABFRL deal gives Aditya Birla Fashion Retail a significant leg-up amid the Covid-19 pandemic, while expanding the offline presence of the Walmart-owned etailer.
- HC seeks Centre's reply on plea against rule to register e-commerce business as companySenior advocate Anand Grover and advocate Samyak Gangwal, appearing for Sethi, told the court that the effect of the impugned rule was that every business enterprise which is not a company is excluded from the e-commerce space or they will have to sell through platforms like Amazon or Flipkart.
- Retailers are discouraging a mainstay of e-commerce in India: cash-on-deliveryE-commerce sites including Amazon, Flipkart and 1mg had suspended the COD option for some months from April as part of efforts to create contactless shopping in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19. However, the sheer popularity of COD prompted them to restore the payment method recently.
- DPIIT sends complaints by trader body CAIT against Flipkart, Amazon to EDConfederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has alleged that Flipkart and Amazon are in violation of FEMA rules and FDI policy by adopting illegal structuring/investments and practices.
- Digital mandis, Support for MSME sellers on Flipkart: Businesses share how they coped during the pandemicIt’s been a tough year for MSMEs and small businesses as the lockdown forced people indoors.
- Flipkart-Aditya Birla Fashion proposed deal violates government's FDI policy: CAITCAIT wrote to Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal in this regard urging him to prohibit Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd from directly or indirectly selling its inventory on the marketplace platforms owned/controlled by the Flipkart Group.
- Flipkart partners Max Fashion to expand fashion category ahead of festive seasonThe partnership will provide Max Fashion with wider market access as its products across categories, including apparel and accessories, footwear, will be available in newer geographies and pin codes.
- Fan merchandise retailer The Souled Store earns licensing rights to sell Liverpool Football Club products“This launch will help us cater to today’s millennials. Indian Liverpool fans will get authentic merchandise without having to wait weeks for the products to be delivered,” said Vedang Patel, co-founder of The Souled Store.
- Flipkart Wholesale announces 1st 'Big Festival Month' fashion saleThe sale will feature products in fashion categories across more than 50 brands, more than 100 sellers and one lakh members, the newly-launched B2B marketplace said in a statement.
- Bureau of Indian Standards to bring service norms for e-commerce companies, aggregatorsThe BIS, which lays down norms with regards to quality and safety of goods sold in the country, has been in discussion with various stakeholders to lay out standards for several issues ranging from standardisation of invoices and websites.
- Amazon, Flipkart mulls leasing warehouse space to meet festive sales rushBoth companies expect their sales to outpace existing fulfilment centres and are looking for incremental storage areas for the next few months, until they develop their own facilities.
- Flipkart selects eight startups for its accelerator programme LeapAt Flipkart Leap, the eight selected startups will undergo a sixteen-week mentorship programme and receive an equity-free grant of $25,000.
- Flipkart appoints JPMorgan’s Saroj Panigrahi as general counsel ahead of IPOBijoya Roy, who has led Flipkart’s legal operations since January 2019 will transition to the role of vice president and will report to Senior Vice President Saroj Panigrahi.
- TikTok, add to cart: How online stores are working to influence your purchases, literallyAs the pandemic has forced Indians to stay indoors for months, making them consume more videos on their phones than ever, e-commerce companies of Myntra, Flipkart's 2Gud and Paytm Mall are intensifying their customer engagement programmes and making their sites even more interactive with digital content and videos.
- Flipkart plans to hire 300 graduatesThe company is using on-campus placements, case-study competitions, and post-internship offers to hire campus talent.
- Show cause notices for closure issued to Flipkart, Patanjali over PWM Rules, CPCB tells NGTCPCB said the show cause notice under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, has been issued to these units on October 8, for closure of their operation and environment compensation for non-compliance of provisions of Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2018.
- Income Tax Department surveys offices of Swiggy and Flipkart unitThe I-T Department is conducting a survey at Flipkart Group company Instakart and Swiggy in connection with an alleged bogus input tax credit taken by an external vendor.
- Flipkart starts hyperlocal service 'Flipkart Quick', to expand to 6 cities by year-endFlipkart said its hyperlocal service, dubbed Flipkart Quick, will also sell mobile phones and stationery items, taking it a step further than existing quick-delivery services which mainly offer just groceries. Flipkart Quick will debut in select locations in Bengaluru, the company said, without specifying a launch date.
- NITI Aayog and Flipkart collaborate to enhance Women Entrepreneurship PlatformThe Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is a unified access portal which brings together women from different parts of India to realise their entrepreneurial aspirations.
- 50-60% of spends on E-commerce platforms via digital modesCoD has traditionally constituted as much as 70% of all e-commerce transactions. During the early days of the pandemic, CoD transactions fell sharply, as most leading online marketplaces discouraged physical contact on home delivery, although it has picked up since.
- SIAC arbitration order against Rs 24K crore RIL deal not 'enforceable, binding': Future RetailLast Sunday, the SIAC passing an interim award in favour of Amazon had asked the Future group to put the deal on hold and said that the deal cannot go through until it finally decides the matter.
- Verdict on Amazon arbitration plea over Rs 24,713 cr Future-RIL deal expected in few daysA one-man arbitration panel heard the plea of Amazon and Future Group last week and a verdict is expected in a few days, according to sources.
- Airtel Digital to buy 10% in Tata Group's Ferbine for bigger finance playAirtel, which already runs a payments bank and hopes to become a small finance bank in future, expects the transaction to buy stake in Ferbine to be completed on or before March 5, 2021.
- Homegrown e-commerce giant Flipkart onboards 13,000 kiranas in eastern region"Flipkart's team initiated contactless onboarding of kiranas through online application. This enabled seamless onboarding without them having to step out during COVID-19 times," a company statement said.
- Karnataka HC to hear CCI plea against Amazon, Flipkart on Jan 18On October 26, the Supreme Court had asked the Karnataka HC to decide on the CCI plea within six weeks.
- IPO-bound Flipkart rejigs board to add CEO Krishnamurthy, 3 othersThe Flipkart board reshuffle comes soon after Walmart spun off PhonePe and amid plans for an overseas listing.
- Future, Amazon continue letter fight; write to SEBI over Future-Reliance dealAmazon had dragged Future Group to arbitration at Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) after an indebted Kishore Biyani group firm signed a pact to sell retail, wholesale, logistics and warehousing units to billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance in August this year.
- Govt to launch ecommerce portal for artisansAccording to two senior government officials, the idea is to make sure that artisans can directly sell their products to consumers, eradicating middlemen.
- Despite coronavirus, Indian traders stock up in hopes of festive cheerIndia's biggest shopping season is at the time of the festivals of Durga Puja and Diwali, which fall 20 days apart in October-November each year. Traditionally, this is a time when houses are re-decorated, big-ticket items purchased, feasts held and gifts exchanged.
- Retail giants eye rural India, small towns to push growthWith farm sector seen as a key support to growth against the mayhem triggered by the pandemic, these companies sense an opportunity to increase sales betting on rural and small town India.
- From laptops to grinders, it’s up & up again since May: Reliance DigitalReliance Digital, India's biggest retail chain by revenues, said it has grown business by 30-40% in August and September compared to a year ago, indicating the continuing demand revival in smartphones, televisions and refrigerators on a month-on-month basis.
- Festive discounts: Out of stock chains, ecommerce sites run out of appliancesSeveral models of LG, Samsung, Lenovo, Bosch, Siemens, TCL, Kodak and Thomson are no longer available. Online-focused brands such as Vu have just half of last year's stock while BPL hasn’t featured at all on the marketplaces this festive season, four industry executives said
- Simplilearn appoints Flipkart's Karandeep Singh as CFO, makes other key hiresPrior to joining Simplilearn, Singh was associated with companies like Tesco, Flipkart, Sapient, Dell, Ariba and Yum Brands in key finance leadership roles.
- Flipkart veteran Anil Goteti resigns as senior vice presidentGoteti started his career in 2012 as a director of the books and eBooks segment. He currently leads customer growth and monetization as senior vice president.
- IIM Kozhikode completes final placements for Class of '21; average salary over Rs 20 lakhThe top 50% students bagged an average annual package of Rs 28.9 lakh in the virtual placement drive, up 8.1% from last year.
- Festive sales: Covid-induced shift to ecommerce hits instant bank discounts for consumersTill last year, the total bank discount used to be uniform in the total sale period and used to range up to Rs 2,000. Instant bank discounts lures consumers to shop more to avail bigger benefits and ensures returns or last minute cancellations are at a minimum.
- E-commerce sales see rush of new shoppers, mainly from hinterlandBengaluru-based Flipkart also said that there has been a perceptible shift towards consumers adopting digital payment instruments, with prepaid transactions recording a 75% increase. “One out of every 5 purchases in high-ticket segments like mobiles, furniture, large appliances & electronics were driven through an EMI construct,” Flipkart said in a statement.
- Lee and Wrangler looking to transform India business into omni-channel entitiesKontoor Brands, that recently decided to shift its businesses of Lee and Wrangler from its fully-owned subsidiary in India into a licencing model by signing a deal with Bengaluru-based omni-channel enabler Ace Turtle.
- Flipkart rolls out 'dark stores' for deliveries as it takes on Reliance's JioMartLast week, Flipkart announced the launch of its hyperlocal services called ‘Flipkart Quick’ in various parts of Bengaluru, where consumers can book a two-hour delivery of about 2,000 products like grocery, fresh items and smartphones, among other electronic items.
- SC asks Karnataka HC to decide CCI plea for vacating stay on probe against e-com firmsA bench comprising Justices A M Khanwikar, Dinesh Maheswari and Sanjiv Khanna asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to approach the High Court for relief.
- Big Billion Days to create 70,000 seasonal jobs this festive season: FlipkartThe Bengaluru-based company said while direct job opportunities will be created across Flipkart's supply chain, including roles like delivery executives, pickers, packers and sorters, there will also be additional indirect jobs created at Flipkart's seller partner locations and kiranas.
- Amazon, Flipkart pad up for T20 sale beginning tomorrow before festive testAmazon’s two-day sale will be its first large promotional event since the easing of the lockdown. Flipkart’s four-day event will focus on electronics, appliances and fashion.
- Amazon India adds 4 vernacular languages to woo shoppers ahead of festive seasonWalmart-owned Flipkart had introduced Hindi interface for customers last year, and added Tamil, Telugu and Kannada in July this year. Smaller rival Snapdeal on Monday announced that its app is now available in eight languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi, in addition to English.
- Amazon, Flipkart expect big jump in festive sales; ask sellers to place large orders with brandsFive executives aware of the business projections said the two companies expect consumers will increasingly do their festive-season shopping online due to the pandemic, a trend evident in the success of recently concluded promotions earlier in the month.
- Flipkart and Amazon corner 88% share of festive online sales: ReportPandemic woos new shoppers from small cities, offline retail slump helps e-commerce, the report said.