E-commerce Companies

BJP MP Khandelwal asks Goyal to suspend festival sales of e-commerce giants

BJP MP Khandelwal urges Goyal to suspend festival sales of ecommerce players

Amazon India creates over 100K seasonal jobs ahead of festive season

Ahead of the festival season this year, e-commerce, quick commerce, and third-party logistics players are ramping up their supply chain networks to meet the demand for quicker deliveries

Swiggy Instamart appoints Sairam Krishnamurthy as chief operating officer

Krishnamurthy's appointment follows a series of senior hires at the quick commerce platform

Myntra CEO Sinha gets additional responsibility to lead Flipkart Fashion

Arief Mohamad, the vice president and head of Flipkart Fashion, is leaving the e-commerce company after spending nine years at the firm, according to sources

Meesho onboards Hari Bhartia, three others as independent directors

Softbank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho on Friday said it has appointed Jubilant Bhartia Group founder Hari S Bhartia along with three other seasoned business leaders as independent directors. Along with Bhartia, Meesho has onboarded former JP Morgan Chairman Kalpana Morparia for South and South East Asia, PhonePe non-executive Chairman of the board Rohit Bhagat, and San Francisco-based AI company Ema's CEO Surojit Chatterjee. "As we embark on the next phase of growth, I am thrilled to announce the appointment of Surojit Chatterjee, Kalpana Morparia, Rohit Bhagat, and Hari S. Bhartia as independent directors to Meesho's board," Meesho, Founder and CEO Vidit Aatrey said in a statement. Bhartia is the Founder and Co-Chairman of Jubilant Bhartia Group. The Jubilant Bhartia Group has four flagship companies listed on Indian stock exchanges, with a combined market capitalisation of approximately USD 7.65 billion, it added. Bhartia is also the Co-Chairman and Managing Director of Jubilan

KingsCraft eyes Rs 50 cr revenue from new e-commerce platform in FY25

Online fashion retail brand KingsCraft Online Brands on Friday said it is eyeing Rs 50 crore revenue from its newly launched e-commerce platform Underrated Club in this fiscal. The Pune-based company, which started operations this year, also said it is looking to venture into offline segments as well with plans to set up 50 fashion retail stores across Tier-I cities under the new platform by March next year. Bootstrapped with an investment of Rs 8 crore, the company has strategically positioned Underrated Club as a key player in the affordable luxury streetwear segment, it said. "At URC (Underrated Club), we are redefining streetwear by combining innovation and sustainability," Abhishek Teri, Co-founder of Underrated Club, said. Underrated Club is set to expand its reach through a robust online presence and partnerships with plans to tie up with leading e-commerce platforms and establish a physical presence through retail partnerships, pop-up stores, and flagship stores in key ...

Nykaa expects consolidated revenue to increase 22-23% in Apr-Jun quarter

FSN E-Commerce Ventures, the parent company of Nykaa, on Sunday forecast a year-on-year consolidated revenue growth of around 22-23 per cent in the first quarter of 2024-25 (FY25) with a matching growth momentum for beauty vertical but flagged "muted" demand environment in the fashion industry. In a BSE filing on its quarterly revenue update for the April-June quarter of FY25, the company said for the consolidated entity, the GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) growth for the quarter is seen to be in the mid-20s year-on-year. FSN E-Commerce Ventures also informed that it is commencing vertical-wise segmental reporting, beginning this quarter. "Nykaa - FSN E-Commerce Ventures Limited along with its subsidiaries, that is the consolidated entity expects its revenue growth to be around 22-23 per cent YoY in Q1 FY2025," the company said. The Beauty vertical revenue growth for the quarter is expected to be around 22-23 per cent YoY, similar to the consolidated entity's revenue growth. "GMV gr

Avenue Supermarts Q1 results: Revenue rises 18.4% to Rs 13,712 crore

Avenue Supermarts Ltd, which owns and operates the retail chain D-Mart, has reported an 18.36 per cent increase in standalone revenue from operations to Rs 13,711.87 crore for the June quarter. The company had a revenue from operations of Rs 11,584.44 crore in the year-ago period, Avenue Supermarts informed the BSE in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. "Standalone revenue from operations for the quarter ended (QE) June 30, stood at Rs 13,711.87 crore," Avenue Supermarts said. The total number of stores as of June 30 stood at 371. This also includes one store in Rajkot, Gujarat, which is temporarily closed for customers, it added. The Damani family-promoted company also added the "standalone revenue from operations for QE June 30, 2024 given above is subject to limited review by the statutory auditors of the company." In the April-June quarter of FY23, Avenue Supermarts' standalone revenue was at Rs 9,806.89 crore. Promoted by Radhakishan Damani and his family, DMart retails basic ho

Swiggy records $200 million loss in nine months to December 2023: Report

The document showed that losses stood at 17.3 billion rupees $207 million during April to December 2023 - the first nine months of fiscal year 2023-24

69% Indian shoppers prefer deliveries with minimal packaging: Amazon study

Globally since 2015, Amazon has reduced the weight of outbound packaging per shipment by 41 per cent on average and eliminated over 2 million tons of packaging material

Fashion, grocery to capture 2/3rd of e-commerce by 2027: Falguni Nayar

Nayar, speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh in New Delhi on Monday, said that India is currently at a stage similar to where China was 15 years ago

Flipkart launches fourth grocery fulfilment centre in West Bengal

E-commerce major Flipkart on Monday announced the launch of its fourth grocery fulfilment centre in West Bengal. The fulfilment centre in Malda, around 340 km from Kolkata, is spread over 1.13 lakh square feet with a dispatch capacity of over 1 lakh units per day. It will cater to more than 7,000 orders per day across Berhampore, Malda, Siliguri and the north Bengal belt, and parts of Jharkhand and Bihar, including Bhagalpur, Deoghar, Munger, Purnea, Rampurhat and Saharsa. The company claimed that the centre will generate more than 700 direct and indirect local job opportunities, while providing nationwide market entry for thousands of local sellers, MSMEs, and small-scale farmers in the region. West Bengal Agriculture Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay welcomed the decision of Flipkart to launch its fourth grocery fulfilment centre. "We are proud to welcome Flipkart's another grocery fulfilment centre in the state and foresee greater participation in the digital commerce space in t

IIM Indore student gets Rs 1 cr salary package from e-commerce company

An e-commerce company has offered an annual salary of Rs 1 crore to a student of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, an official said Tuesday. This is the highest annual package offered during the final placement round of this session at IIM-I, the official said. "One of our students has bagged the highest salary package of Rs 1 crore during the final placement period of this session. This student has been offered a job in the sales and marketing department by a company in the e-commerce industry. The offer is for domestic placement," the official said. Against the backdrop of "a cooling job market", the season culminated with more than 150 recruiters extending offers to 594 students of the two-year Post Graduate Programme (PGP) and five-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM), the official said, adding that this reflects the industry's unwavering trust in the institute and its students. The statistics for this year consisted of the average CTC (cost to company)

Nykaa Q3 results: Net profit doubles to Rs 16.19 cr on festive demand

The company's consolidated net profit rose 97% to 161.9 million rupees ($1.95 million) in the third quarter ended Dec. 31. It had posted a drop in net profit in three of its previous five quarters

Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal exits board, launches new startup OppDoor

Binny Bansal has officially exited the board the Walmart-owned e-commerce firm, which he founded along with Sachin Bansal 16 years ago

Flipkart leads e-comm mkt with 48% share, Meesho fastest growing platform

Walmart group firm Flipkart continues to dominate the e-commerce segment with 48 per cent market share while Softbank-backed Meesho has emerged as the fastest growing e-commerce platform in terms of user base in India, a latest report by AllianceBernstein said. According to the report, Flipkart's user base grew 21 per cent year-on-year (YoY), Meesho accelerated at 32 per cent while Amazon lagged at 13 per cent user growth primarily due to relative premium offerings as compared to peers. " As of FY23, Flipkart was the market leader, with a 48 per cent share in India eCommerce. Flipkart continues to grow faster than the industry... Mobile and apparel to be the largest categories for Flipkart with around 50 per cent and 30 per cent mix. Flipkart is estimated to hold 48 per cent and 60 per cent market share in online smartphone and online fashion market respectively," the report said. The report attributed growth in Meesho's market share primarily to its strategic focus Tier 2 and small

$340 million fundraise by Udaan signals pick-up in startup dealmaking

Led by M&G plc, Udaan's Series E funding includes Lightspeed Venture Partners and DST Global

Fraudsters swiped millions of dollars by faking product refunds: Amazon

The lawsuit lists more than a dozen transactions from June 2022 to May 2023 as leading to fraudulent refunds. Items purchased include gaming consoles, smartphones, laptops

Paytm to bring 10 mn sellers to ONDC by 2025 end, says Vijay Shekhar Sharma

"Consumer value (on ONDC) will be dramatically different and superior to current e-commerce platforms," he said

Diwali 2023: Beauty product sales up 52%, phones top-selling electronic items

The beauty products category emerged as the top three favourite among the younger demographic with 47 per cent of sales coming from the 18 to 24 years age group