E-commerce
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 16, 2021 - 8 min readLong before the advent of western skincare and beauty products in India, it used to be grandmothers and their home remedies, people relied on for their skincare regime. And now after years of haul on chemical products, Indian consumers are gradually moving back to natural skincare products, made from eco-friendly, sustainable ingredients. The Indian consumers, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 15, 2021 - 2 min readFeminine hygiene, and intimate skincare brand Sanfe has onboarded actor Radhika Apte to join them to be the voice for women to be able to make a choice for their intimate and hygiene care. Being unapologetically vocal for the right issues and causes as well as her bold outlook makes Radhika Apte a perfect fit ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 10, 2021 - 2 min readSnapdeal, India’s leading value e-commerce marketplace, announced that it has opened 130 new distribution hubs since January 2021 across all of India, covering 26 states and two union territories. It further shared that the maximum number of these hubs are located in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh. In addition, Snapdeal has augmented its logistics ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 06, 2021 - 2 min readLeading value-focused e-commerce company Snapdeal has shared that the sales of kids’ apparel in terms of units sold has grown by 493 percent from January to July this year. This makes the kids’ fashion category one of the biggest gainers amongst other categories on Snapdeal. The share of kids’ apparel in the overall fashion category sales ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 03, 2021 - 2 min readAmazon Pay announced that 5 crore customers are now using Amazon Pay UPI and to celebrate this milestone, it is offering daily rewards through the month of September to all customers using Amazon Pay UPI for shopping, paying bills, paying at online merchants, and sending money to their contacts. Mahendra Nerurkar, CEO and VP, Amazon ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 20, 2021 - 1 min readWalmart-run e-commerce major Flipkart is creating 4,000 jobs in Maharashtra by opening four new facilities. These fulfilment and sortation centres are located in Bhiwandi and Nagpur, and are aimed primarily at supporting the local sellers in the state and cater to the growing demand for e-commerce. The facilities are spread over 7 lakh sq ft and will create 4,000 direct ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 12, 2021 - 1 min readAmandeep Lohan, a category leader at Amazon India, has been appointed as the Managing Director of Appario Retail for a period of five years effective August 2. The move comes after Amazon’s announcement that it would cease from May next year its Cloudtail joint venture with NR Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran, amid increased regulatory scrutiny. Appario Retail, Amazon’s joint venture with ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 11, 2021 - 8 min readYogesh Kabra, Founder of XYXX had just returned after his MBA from the US and he was disappointed with the unrelatable brands, quality of products, and lack of product innovation that he found on the retail shelves in the men’s basics category. As a consumer, he wanted more from his basics but soon realized that ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 11, 2021 - 2 min readAmazon India is finally ending its relationship with one of its biggest sellers in the country, Cloudtail, following years of allegations that it received preferential treatment from the e-commerce giant. The announcement by the company comes amidst an antitrust probe into the joint venture between the two, that came after a document leak by Reuters. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 06, 2021 - 2 min readAmazon India has expanded its fulfilment centre network in Telangana with the launch of a new specialized centre and spreading out of an existing one. Spread over 2 lakh square feet of floor area, the new fulfilment centre will offer over 6 lakh cubic feet of storage capacity, housing a wider selection of products from the large appliances and ...