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Amazon's India sales hit 3 billion dollars

COVID-19 couldn’t slow down Amazon’s business in India. The online retail giant saw sales in the country reach 3 billion dollars last year, allowing them to create over a million local jobs since it began operating in the South Asian country over a decade ago. 1 billion dollars of that 3 billion and 300,000 of those jobs came about within just...

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Amazon, Flipkart to have back-to-back sales

Both Amazon India and Flipkart have launched back-to-back season sales in the run up to Diwali. While Amazon's Great Indian Festival will start from November 2 and go up to November 5, 2018 Flipkart's Big Diwali Sale started today on November 1, 2018 and will end on November 5, 2018. Both players will offer massive discounts and deals on many...

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Amazon to retail Central Cottage Industries Emporium products online

Amazon India has launched Central Cottage Industries Emporium (CCIE), a public sector undertaking under Ministry of Textiles and Government of India on its marketplace. CCIE which began as an endeavor to preserve the traditional craftsmanship and excellence of skill as a part of national heritage, offers authentic handloom and handicraft...

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Amazon has one out of three customers for fashion

One out of almost three new customers comes to Amazon’s India site to buy fashion. During the Great Indian Sale apparel was the single largest category on the platform, ahead of mobile phones, the traditional top seller. And fashion was the second largest category for new customer acquisition during the sale. Fashion is also a high-margin, high...

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Gap now available on Amazon India

US fashion giant Gap announced yesterday that the popular brand is now available on Amazon Fashion in India through a partnership between Amazon India and Arvind Lifestyle Brand Limited, Gap's franchise partner in India since 2015. This means not only availability to all of the 19,000 postal codes across the country but also free one-day and...

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Aeropostale is no longer exclusive to Amazon.in

US youth-based brand Aeropostale is now no longer exclusive on Amazon India’s e-commerce space. The brand, which forayed in India exclusively through Amazon India almost a year back, will now be available on Flipkart, Jabong, Arvind’s nnnow.com too. As Sumit Dhingra, CEO, Aeropostale India points out, the parting process was completely mutual....

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Despite impeding losses, Amazon India to continue investing

Even as the e-commerce behemoth continues to pump in millions of dollars into the Indian market in an all-out move to wrest market leadership from Flipkart, Amazon India’s losses are likely to rise to one billion dollars (Rs 6,816 crores) by the end of this fiscal (FY17). Sources say that Amazon is playing the market-share game in India....

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Amazon Fashion sees double digit growth

Amazon India has witnessed significant growth in its fashion category. Especially in Tier-II and III cities, Amazon Fashion has doubled its selection and grown over 150 per cent y-o-y by the middle of 2016. The categories in Amazon Fashion include watches, apparels, shoes, jewelry and luggage and this has shown over 200 per cent growth this...

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Amazon India appoints Arun Sirdeshmukh fashion head

Amazon India has appointed Fashionara co-founder Arun Sirdeshmukh as the head of its fashion portfolio. Prior to striking out on his own as an entrepreneur with Fashionara, Sirdeshmukh was the CEO of Reliance Trends, the fashion and lifestyle business of Reliance Retail. Online retail venture Fashionara has folded up after struggling amid...

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Retailers oppose Amazon’s gift vouchers

A smart marketing gimmick by Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, has riled Indian brick-and-mortar retailers. Earlier this month, Bezos sent out email offers of Rs 200 gift cards to millions of Indian customers. The email talked about the company’s successful journey in India and lauded the Indian customers for making Amazon.in the most...

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Amazon India undertakes offline retailing under ‘Udaan’

After making strong in-roads into the India’s online market, Amazon India has now launched a project named Udaan to tap the offline market in the country. Apart from tying up with small traders in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to launch Amazon-branded stores that will let customers shop on the online Amazon store, the arm of American ecommerce...

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India on Amazon’s mind, plans outwit homegrown rivals

American ecommerce major, Amazon, which has been pursuing its India plans aggressively since the last two years, is now looking at growing making its India business the biggest outside the US. The company is also said to be in the process of adding features like Amazon Instant Video and subscription-based ecommerce services for high-end buyers,...