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Amazon India net loss widens to Rs 1,724 Cr, Registered a Six-Fold Increase in Sales
25Jan By NitishNo Comments
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Amazon India net loss widens to Rs 1,724 Cr, Registered a Six-Fold Increase in Sales

MUMBAI: As per the report, Amazon India Losses in business goes up to Rs 1,724 crore in the year ended March 2015. The reason of such a huge loss occurred because of Amazon's expenses was due to higher advertising, sales and promotion costs of almost Rs 1,405 crore, almost equivalent to the combined marketing spends of Godrej Consumer, Dabur and Marico. However, Amazon Seller Services registered a six-fold increase in sales to Rs 1,022 crore in 2014-15 from Rs 169 crore a year earlier, according to a filing with the Registrar of Companies on Saturday. The combined losses of the 'Big 3' online firms including Flipkart and Snapdeal to Rs 5,052 crore as they hunted for buyers by offering deep discounts. Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce firm, reported a loss of about Rs 2,000 ...
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FIR Against Snapdeal For Flouting Maggi Ban
5Jan By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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FIR Against Snapdeal For Flouting Maggi Ban

An FIR has been registered against the CEO and founder of an e-commerce major for allegedly selling popular Maggi noodles online during the ban period, in five Indian states. A case was registered yesterday against CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl and its founder Rohit Bansal for online sale of Nestle's instant noodles in five states including Rajasthan during the period of ban between June 7 and October 30 last year, police said today. A complaint was yesterday lodged by Lalit Sharma, a Jaipur-based lawyer following which police registered an FIR under sections 420 (cheating), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 272 (adulteration of food or drink intended for sale), 273 (sale of noxious food or drink) of the IPC and sections 59 and 63 of the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006. When contacted,...
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“Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm” ,  Big 4’s App Performance in 2015 by Deepak Abbot
31Dec By Deepak AbbotNo Comments
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“Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm” ,  Big 4’s App Performance in 2015 by Deepak Abbot

Following up on my last year’s post on Mobile Commerce, I decided to focus only on Big 4 this time primarily due to lack of time. Here is what I published in Dec 2014: Mobile Commerce Growth in 2014 - It's An App World Let's take a visual look at how some of the top mobile commerce Apps of India grew in the year 2014, which also points…growthbug.com The numbers shown below are based on my formula based on publicly available data. Plus I have used all the free sources of data (non-paid) available from popular App store analytics platforms. The charts below are only for Android, which IMO would be 85% of all App traffic. Flipkart maintained its leadership in 2015: Flipkart grew 2x: Returning users: Month 2 retention seems to be the biggest concern for all: Num...
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Snapdeal to invest in logistics to speed up delivery
29Dec By AdityaNo Comments
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Snapdeal to invest in logistics to speed up delivery

Reuters: Online marketplace Snapdeal, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp and others, will spend more on logistics and technology to better compete with Flipkart and Amazon's Indian unit, its co-founder said on Monday. Shopping online is becoming more popular in India due to the rising use of cheaper smartphones and e-commerce firms are struggling to cope with the growing demand and make faster deliveries in different parts of the country. The e-commerce market in India is expected to grow to $220 billion in the value of goods sold by 2025, up from an expected $11 billion this year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a recent report. Flush with $500 million from a funding round in August, led by China's Alibaba, SoftBank and Foxconn, Snapdeal is now looking to expand its serv...
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Decoding – Snapdeal revenues have increased 5 times from last year
19Nov By AdityaNo Comments
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Decoding – Snapdeal revenues have increased 5 times from last year

It seems a comment from Kunal Bahl (CEO, Co-founder of Snapdeal) is true that Snapdeal will become profitable in three years. As per the latest data from a Blog, Snapdeal revenues have increased 5 times. The Blog also revealed that the loss per rupee of revenue earned has also decreased drastically comparison to last year.   Loss per rupee chart: So Snapdeal revenues have been growing multifold every year. Every Valuation round is a multiple of the last one. But what about its losses? The negative point is that revenue for FY 2012-13 was INR 340 million which is a very small scale to be of any use for benchmarking. And the loss at even a scale of INR 1,680 million is twice the revenue.
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Amazon may export delivery lessons from India to cut costs abroad
15Nov By RishabhNo Comments
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Amazon may export delivery lessons from India to cut costs abroad

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is taking lessons learnt from its daily battles with India's choked roads and cramped cities to some of its largest developed markets, exporting a model of cheaper deliveries and reduced warehousing costs. Online shopping is booming in India, where millions of consumers are newly able to access the Internet thanks to cheap smartphones. For Amazon, it is already the largest contributor of new customers outside the United States. But, like local rivals Flipkart and Snapdeal, Amazon has struggled with deliveries in cities where snarl-ups are frequent and road signs unreliable. In response, firms have set up logistics networks and use motorbikes instead of trucks. Flipkart, for one, has tapped Mumbai's dabbawalas, a more than a century-old lunch box distrib...
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PayTM Office , battle station of one of India’s biggest e-commerce company!
23Oct By No Comments
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PayTM Office , battle station of one of India’s biggest e-commerce company!

Paytm is an Indian e-commerce shopping website launched in 2010, owned by One97 Communications which initially focused on Mobile and DTH Recharging. The company is headquartered in Noida, India. It gradually provided recharging and bill payment of various portals including electricity bills, gas bills, as well as telephone bills. Paytm entered India's e-commerce market in 2014, providing facilities and products similar to businesses such as Flipkart, Amazon.com, Snapdeal. In 2015, it added booking bus travel. (more…)
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Why Ecommerce Giants Like Kunal Bahl, Sachin Bansal Are Backing Entrepreneurs As “Super Angel”
23Sep By No Comments
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Why Ecommerce Giants Like Kunal Bahl, Sachin Bansal Are Backing Entrepreneurs As “Super Angel”

Saras Agarwal's main agenda at a networking event early this year was to meet Zishaan Hayath, cofounder and chief executive of education technology startup Toppr. The associate vice-president at VenturEast, among India's oldest venture capital firms, wasn't looking to invest in Toppr but discuss startups Hayath had put his money into. "It was a general meet-up from the point of view of deal flow to understand what kind of startups (Hayath) is interested in," Agarwal said. Hayath represents a widening pool of so-called super angels — reputed startup founders who are increasingly becoming the first port of call for entrepreneurs seeking money for their emerging businesses, having been among the earliest to bet on consumer Internet companies such as Ola, Housing, TinyOwl, Grofers and Delhi...
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Expected to Be Profitable in 3 Years – Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal CEO
18Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Expected to Be Profitable in 3 Years – Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal CEO

E-commerce major Snapdeal expects to be operationally profitable in the next three years and is investing heavily in building infrastructure to scale up its business. "More specifically in the next three-year period, at least in our business, I feel fairly confident that we will be at that point of profitability," Snapdeal CEO Kunal Bahl on Thursday said at an International Chambers of Commerce event. (more…)
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China’s big tech companies backs Indian startups
4Sep By No Comments
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China’s big tech companies backs Indian startups

What we will say, Is this Narendra modi effect or what but China's one of the largest search engine Baidu and one of the country's biggest private conglomerates Fosun are scouting to invest in Indian startups, joining compatriots from the Middle Kingdom eager to profit from the opportunities in the world's fastest-growing major economy. Investment managers from both companies are in talks with Indian venture capitalists and start-ups for potential funding deals, two people directly aware of the development told ET. Taiwan's Foxconn is also an investor in Snapdeal along with Japan's SoftBank. "They (Baidu and Fosun) have been having conversations about specific opportunities — the startup names include niche e-commerce firms as well as some in the enterprise space," said a second source....
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