Govt moves to add sound to E-rickshaws and E-karts for pedestrian safetyIn a fresh draft notification, the ministry of road transport and highways has added L5 and L7 vehicles to the earlier proposed list of M a...
Temasek, InvAscent eye Healthkart stakeDeal going through would value HealthKart at around $300 million.
Flipkart's COO quits; Krishnamurthy's grip tightensSeth's exit will give more power to Kalyan Krishnamurthy, who took over the HR function last week
Flipkart's new centralised procurement process aims to cut costsThe firm is also looking at investment in automation at its warehouses and the last mile to reduce costs and the need for human interventio...
Ekart, logistics arm of Flipkart,strengthens top management, appoints two senior executivesUpadhye will report to Ekart head Saikiran Krishnamurthy, while Abichandani will report to Flipkart CFO Sanjay Baweja.
Flipkart taps into kirana stores to extend last-mile deliveryEkart, the logistics arm of online marketplace Flipkart has signed on a network of 700 corner stores across 28 cities as part of its altern...
With the ecommerce industry set to hit $100 billion by 2020, can logistics business be far behind?Existing logistics operators have failed to keep pace with the growth of an industry expected to cross $100 billion in size by 2020.
Flipkart's logistics arm does business for rivals and is even looking beyond ecommerceWhen Sachin and Binny Bansal founded Flipkart in 2007, they often ended up jumping on their own vehicles in the initial months to make deli...
Binny Bansal to double down focus on commerce & supply chain, make Flipkart Alibaba of IndiaBinny Bansal’s answer is to double down focus in two areas: the main ecommerce business and logistics, a unit he knows only too well.
Flipkart infuses Rs 666 crore in EkartThis is Flipkart’s second fund infusion in seven months into the logistics business that’s housed under a newly created entity called Insta...
Ecommerce majors Amazon, Flipkart together rented about 3.6 million square feet warehouse space in 2015Amazon and Flipkart have more than doubled warehouse or fulfillment space as more and more sellers come on board to benefit from the online...
Now, buy Flipkart warehouse space and get priority seller statusAccording to industry executives, the space has become vacant as Flipkart cut its reliance on WS Retail, which was originally part-owned by...
Delivery boys suffer back problems: The backbone of Indian e-commerce boom faces serious breakdownAs ecommerce companies try to meet the dearth of feet on the ground and wheels on the road, the pressure is building on delivery boys.
Watch: HealthKart looks to raise $30 million in Series CWatch how Prashant Tandon and Sameer Maheshwari started HealthKart and the startup's plans to raise Series C funding to propel growth.
After Amazon, Flipkart to join express delivery race; co's logistics unit eKart to compete with on-demand startupseKart to take on competition from on-demand startups that promise to deliver products within an hour, typically by tying up with local stor...
Success of Flipkart and Snapdeal spawns name-copying in the e-commerce marketYou have relatively well-known HealthKart and LensKart to relatively less-known e-tailers such as VeggieKart & SafetyKart. Just as you have...
Flipkart to throw open its logistics arm 'eKart' to deliver packages of competitors"This is another page out of Amazon's book," said Ashish Jhalani, head of advisory firm eTailing India. In US, Amazon does deliveries for o...