HOW ARE E-COMMERCE COMPANIES VALUED?
Till recently it was the news of ever increasing and now the freezing and sometimes melting away of valuations of e-commerce companies that has been grabbing everyone’s attention.
It is fascinating yet confusing for most of...
Mobile services marketplace, UrbanClap has recently announced the appointment of former Housing.com VP, Amit Das as its new Vice President – Design.
Das was an integral part of Housing.com as the Head of its Design Team. He rose to become...
Bengaluru-based MTR Foods, which was acquired by the Norwegian major Orkla ASA in 2007, recently re-branded itself followed by a plan to invest heavily in beefing up its manufacturing capacity. The new initiatives are a part of the company's...
Retail, by definition, has lived many lives. From the familiar brick-and-mortar to the boundary-less e-commerce, each aspires to outlive its competitors by inspiring a new set of attitudes and behaviours in customers. In this ever-changing environment, a few companies...
Rapidly rising mobile and internet penetration, including in rural India, has disrupted the consumption story in India with startups embedding technology at every stage of the consumer's journey.
And now, it is moving to the back-end, to the backbone of...
According to a CII-Deloitte report, as the e-commerce market grew by leaps and bounds in the last four years, investors have shifted their focus to profitable growth to achieve stability.
According to the report, the e-commerce B2C segment has grown...
Traditional brick-and-mortar apparel retailers seems to be fighting a losing battle in light of the e-commerce onslaught.
Horizon Consulting India conducted a nationwide research of brick-and-mortar retail and the strategies currently adopted and potentially planned, by these retailers.
The research base...
Picking on a predictable characteristic displayed by the average women shopper -- closet overflow, yet nothing to wear -- and borrowing a page from the success stories of some international players, some online startups in India claim to have...
Big Data is all about turning extremely large quantities of data into useful information. When companies aggregate data and analyse them effectively, patterns emerge, ideas are born, and fashion companies become trend setters.
The retail sector in India is emerging...
The Commerce Ministry on Thursday said that online transactions of goods adhering to the e-commerce norms will be entitled to duty benefits under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS).
Defining "e-commerce" for the purpose of MEIS, the Director General...