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The Power of Niche in E-Commerce
In 2009, Amazon.com acquired Zappos.com, a niche e-commerce company that sells shoes and clothes. Again, in the year 2010, it acquired Quidsi, Inc., which operates Diapers.com, an e-commerce venture that sells baby products. Though Amazon.com is already selling everything,...
Fashion & Lifestyle
Price-Hunt Launches Exclusive Clothing Section for Online Shoppers
Price-Hunt.com, one of the leading price comparison website is making its foray into the world of fashion and lifestyle with its new section on clothing. Founded in 2013, the portal has served more than 1.2 million visitors from January...
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Role of Supply Chain Systems in Addressing Challenges of Organised Retail
India's retail market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13 per cent to reach around US$950 billion. Currently, organised retail penetration that is estimated at 7.5 per cent, is expected to reach 10 per cent by 2018...
Fashion & Lifestyle
An Exclusive Purveyor of Indian Artistic Fashion
Rahul Narvekar, CEO, Indianroots.com discusses the journey, philosophy and future plans of the ethnic and designer wear online brand.Indianroots.com, an NDTV venture came last year to connect and reconnect Indians to their roots. The e-commerce portal offers a diverse...
Retail
Creating plus-size style
A plus-size brand launched in 2005, ‘aLL – A Little Larger’ format has managed to carve a niche for itself in the plus-size clothing category. aLL houses a wide array of ready-to-wear fashionable western and ethnicwear and accessories that...
Shopping Centres
General Budget and What it means for the Retail Real Estate Industry
Where real estate is concerned, the Finance Minister (FM) has proposed some pragmatic and much required changes in FDI policies for the real estate sector in the maiden Union Budget 2014-15. Towards that, the minimum requirement of the built...
Fashion & Lifestyle
Amazon Announces 5 New Fulfillment Centers in India
Amazon Seller Services India Pvt Ltd has announced its plans to open five more Fulfillment Centers (FCs) in Delhi, Chennai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Tauru (outskirts of Gurgaon). With the additional storage capacity and its two existing Fulfillment Centers on...
Retail
Online Retailer Flipkart Raises $1 bn Funding
E-commerce retailer is reportedly known to have raised over over $1 billion (Rs 6,000 crore) and is likely to announce the fund-raising by next week as confirmed by people aware about the development, reports a leading daily. The money...
Retail
Budget Still Ambiguous on Allowing FDI in E-commerce, Anurag Rajpal, American Swan
American Rajpal, Director & CEO, American Swan, feels that the Union Budget 2014-15 is still ambiguous on allowing FDI in ecommerce. Referring to the budget announcement that manufacturing units will be allowed to sell its products through retail including...
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Is online retail a threat or an opportunity?
E-commerce grew by more than 60% last year in comparison to earlier year. Players like Flipkart, Snapdeal, Myntra have established themselves and International players like Amazon and eBay are creating awareness and providing more choice to consumer and luring...
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Chai Sutta Bar opens 2 outlets in Bengaluru
The newly launched CSB outlets are located at Kalyan Nagar and NagarbhaviBengaluru: Quick service restaurant (QSR) chain Chai Sutta...
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