India auto retail sees broad-based growth in April; two-wheelers lead surge: Goldman SachsIndia's auto market saw strong growth in April. Two-wheeler sales increased significantly, outpacing passenger vehicles. Commercial vehicle...
01 May, 2026, 03.01 PM IST
Flipkart case: Indemnity clause may shield WalmartSince the transactions under the scanner is for the period before Walmart took charge of the homegrown etailer, the indemnity clause is exp...
10 Aug, 2021, 05.42 PM IST
ED sends notice to Flipkart and its founders, asks why they shouldn't face $1.35 billion fineIndia's brick-and-mortar retailers say Amazon and Flipkart favour select sellers on their platforms and use complex business structures to ...
06 Aug, 2021, 06.16 AM IST
Myntra’s vector registers 90% fall in FY18 revenueThe company made a loss of Rs 52 lakh compared with a profit of Rs 9 crore a year before.
27 Dec, 2018, 09.24 AM IST
Small online sellers ally with big vendorsThey have become suppliers to largest sellers such as Cloudtail, WS Retail, which are part owned or backed by the marketplaces, rather than...
07 Apr, 2018, 07.01 AM IST
Flipkart and its fashion unit Myntra: Two star sellers fail to make revenue cutMyntra’s sales shifted from Vector E-Commerce to Tech Connect during the last financial year, which is now the largest seller entity on the...
03 Feb, 2018, 12.31 AM IST
Online sellers write to CCI alleging predatory pricing by Flipkart’s WS Retail and Amazon’s CloudtailThe vendors complained that WS Retail and Cloudtail sell branded products such as phones, electronics and FMCG items at “rock bottom prices...
04 Mar, 2017, 09.14 AM IST
March 31 deadline for FDI norms looms: WS Retail still pushing biggest cart on FlipkartWS Retail’s revenue is more than the combined sales of retailers such as Shoppers Stop, Future Lifestyle, Tata’s Trent and Aditya Birla Gro...
06 Jan, 2017, 08.58 AM IST
E-commerce giant Flipkart to scale down contribution of WS RetailWS Retail, owned by Flipkart’s founders until 2012, currently dominates the platform and is said to have a share that well exceeds 25% of t...
19 Apr, 2016, 06.27 AM IST
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...
11 Jan, 2016, 02.36 PM IST
Flipkart's win in Kerala tax case a fillip for ecommerce firms in other statesThe judge also wondered how the tax authorities could levy tax on Flipkart Internet Services when majority of the sales to customers in Ker...
04 Nov, 2015, 10.18 AM IST
With Rs 10,000 cr sales, WS Retail tripled its turnover to combined sales of Shoppers Stop, Future Lifestyle, Trent & PantaloonsExperts feel WS Retail’s numbers offer a peek into Flipkart’s likely performance for the year to end-March 2015.
31 Oct, 2015, 10.42 AM IST
Flipkart reduces dependence on WS Retail, aims to more than triple third-party sellers by year-endWhile the share of WS Retail’s sales is falling, Flipkart is aiming to more than triple the number of its third-party sellers by the end of...
12 May, 2015, 02.26 AM IST
Flipkart seeks to cut dependence on WS Retail to focus on marketplace modelWS Retail currently acts as a sort of clearing house for most of the goods sold on Flipkart, sourcing the bulk of the merchandise from vend...
19 Mar, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Flipkart top seller WS Retail to separate logistics arm Ekart into wholly-owned unitFlipkart top seller WS Retail is likely to separate logistics arm Ekart before the e-tailer’s proposed US listing this year, according to o...
21 Jan, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Flipkart plans collection centres to tap smaller cities; eyes 270 such centres by March 2017The Bengaluru-based company could kick-start the process in April this year and open up to 270 such centres by the end of March 2017
08 Jan, 2015, 07.08 AM IST
Flipkart looks to restructure team, plans to make marketplace more effectiveEven after it technically became an online marketplace last year, a bulk of the goods sold were through a former subsidiary, WS Retail.
03 Nov, 2014, 01.24 PM IST