The Budget move that leaves Amazon, Flipkart sellers with less money in handE-commerce marketplaces including Snapdeal, Amazon and Flipkart have approached the government through industry body Ficci seeking a revers...
Cloudtail, Appario push brands for higher marginsAmazon’s largest sellers seek 18-20% hike on current margin base as they chase profitability.
Flipkart checks direct buying from companiesFlipkart asks suppliers to route goods directly to preferred sellers on its platform and wholesale sellers.
Flipkart and its sellers told not to offer GOQii productsThe Bombay City Civil and Sessions Court said it is necessary to stop the sellers from selling the disputed products to prevent further una...
Flipkart appoints intermediaries to get around new FDI normsThe latest restructuring of Flipkart’s operational model follows the tightening of foreign investment rules in e-commerce from February.
Flipkart sellers plan to tweak purchasesIndia only allows FDI-funded marketplaces to lend their platforms for other businesses and sellers and bars such marketplaces from holding ...
Flipkart bets on alpha-beta tango to sync with FDI normsFlipkart is enrolling more alpha intermediaries as well as consumer-facing beta sellers as part of its business restructuring post FDI rule...
Govt accuses Amazon, Flipkart of influencing prices; companies deny chargesThis is the first time since the new rules were announced on December 26 that there is clarity on how the e-tailers, who were lobbying at a...
New e-policy: Rs 5,000 crore stock may bleed Amazon, FlipkartA back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests each player has stock of more than Rs 2,000 crore.
Carts toppled, e-tailers look for deliveranceThe new policy hits Amazon and Flipkart more severely because their group entities control much of the inventory sold on the platform.
New norms may freeze Flipkart, Amazon modelsBig sellers like RetailNet, Super-ComNet and OmniTech Retail on Flipkart and its fashion affiliate Myntra besides Cloudtail and Appario on ...
Focus on B2B pushes Amazon Wholesale’s revenue up 73%After regulatory changes in early 2016, the company saw a huge rise in revenue to Rs 7,047 crore in FY17 from only Rs 2.6 crore in FY16.
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...
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...
Flipkart vendors sweep fashion street with an eye on big billionFlipkart is looking to achieve its highest target from fashion category, about Rs 300 crore sale every day in this festive sale and also to...
Flipkart launches Metronaut to rule men's fashion categoryThe marketplace plans on launching multiple private labels in furniture, fashion and decor ahead of the start of the festive sale season.
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...