Smartphone retailers request price parity to Apple, Samsung and other phone brandsMobile phone retail chains in South India have requested smartphone brands to maintain price parity between online and offline stores durin...
10 Sep, 2024, 03.37 PM IST
Retailers and ecommerce firms clash over festive season discountsTraditional retail stores and ecommerce firms are clashing again as the festive season approaches. Retailers claim that brands like Samsung...
04 Sep, 2024, 12.57 AM IST
Ensure level-playing field or face boycott: Offline trade tells mobile, electronics brands“We are meeting all the mobile phone brands, urging them to provide a level-playing field to the offline channel along with online,” said T...
01 Sep, 2022, 01.11 AM IST
No more fireworks: Festivals fail to light up mobile phone sellersAccording to smartphone trackers, sales this month have been close to 12 million as against 15.5 million last year. If this trend holds, th...
31 Aug, 2020, 11.01 AM IST
Covid-19 fear: Electronics brands Samsung, Apple let offline stores sell onlineSamsung has created an ecommerce platform in partnership with Benow.in along with mobile phone retailers across the country that will allow...
18 Apr, 2020, 07.37 AM IST
Oppo, Vivo offer retailers unkindest cutOppo and Vivo, both founded by Chinese billionaire Duan Yongping, cut the margin offered to large chains to 14-15% from 23-25%, the executi...
09 Jan, 2018, 08.33 AM IST
Change in strategy, lack of desi 4G phones helps Chinese handset makers outsmart Indian rivalsChina's phonemakers are eating into the market share of home-grown smartphone makers who have failed to compete on products, marketing and ...
02 Jan, 2018, 12.36 PM IST
Dubai’s Jumbo Electronics to say goodbye to IndiaJumbo, which has already informed its 145-odd staff in India to look for a change, will move out by March this year, shutting its 16 stores.
22 Jan, 2017, 11.10 PM IST
Google Pixel to hit shop shelves, websites todayThe first ‘Made By Google’ smartphone will be available on Flipkart and across organised and multi-brand retail stores.
25 Oct, 2016, 12.37 AM IST
Google ties up with HTC for aftersales service of Pixel smartphonesPixel phones will be made by HTC and will be imported into India, although HTC gets its own smartphones assembled in Noida facility of Opti...
12 Oct, 2016, 01.16 AM IST
Xiaomi launches 'offline only' Redmi 3S+ in India for Rs 9,499It will also be available across key large format retailers like Poorvika, Sangeetha, BIG C, and LOT Mobiles via its distributors -- Reding...
01 Oct, 2016, 11.16 PM IST
10 per cent sales in India coming from offline channels: Xiaomi"Within a year, offline is contributing to 10 per cent of our sales. We have also expanded our partnerships, which is doing well for us," X...
03 Aug, 2016, 08.19 PM IST
LeEco agrees to new sourcing norms, files fresh application to open own storesLeEco thus becomes the first consumer electronics major to agree to revised norms, with Apple yet to take a final call.
29 Jul, 2016, 05.49 AM IST
E-commerce takes its toll; cellphone retail chain Univercell planning to exit businessThree leading cellphone retailers in south India, Sangeetha Mobiles, Poorvika Mobiles and BigC Mobiles, have also decided to combine resour...
19 Feb, 2015, 04.55 AM IST
Three mobile retailers in South join hands to take on e-tailersThese three chains have initiated discussions with Samsung, LG, HTC and Micromax and expect to launch their first such exclusive models.
16 Dec, 2014, 05.31 AM IST
South India's three big mobile retail chains team up to take the fight to e-tailersThree of south India's largest cellphone retail chains - Sangeetha Mobiles, Poorvika Mobiles and BigC Mobiles - have decided to pool resour...
15 Dec, 2014, 11.28 AM IST
Electronics retail chains like The Mobile Store and UniverCell are selling some phones cheaper online than store priceChains such as The Mobile Store, UniverCell and Sangeetha Mobiles, have started to offer devices online at prices that are up to 7% lower f...
03 Oct, 2014, 11.33 AM IST