Homeshop18.com, one of the leading ecommerce players in the country expands books vertical with its all new user friendly online bookstore with catalogue over more than 10 million books. Currently it showcases books across more than 100 categories such as mystery & detective, entrepreneurship, humor, motorsport and computer & technology. The store’s home page seems to be well placed as it clearly enables consumers to filter their options across top authors, popular books on cinema, … [Read more...]
HomeShop18 re-launches its online bookstore, offers over 10 Mn titles across diverse categories
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Komli Media Acquires Admax to bolster its leadership position in SEA region
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Komli Media, Asia Pacific’s leading media technology company with solutions across display, mobile, video, social, search and data for advertisers, agencies, and publishers has acquired Singapore based Admax Network, one of the largest South East Asia’s (SEA) digital media networks. The online advertising market in SEA region is slated to be worth around US$ 250 – 300 million and growing at 30-40% per year. This acquisition will provide Komli Media with the region’s largest and most … [Read more...]
Exclusive: Liberty rolls out its online store
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Liberty, one of the top 5 manufacturers of leather footwear in the world has unveiled its online store libertyshoesonline.com in India. Currently the website showcases 503 products across men, women and kids categories. It offers its own private labels such as Fortune, Gliders, Coolers, Windsor, and Force 10 along with signature collection by HrithikRoshan and Flexo-tec for men. It also has specials for women and kids. Returns and refund policy on the website is not indicated clearly as it … [Read more...]
RockASAP brings shopping mall on mobile
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Handygo Technologies Pvt. Ltd, India’s leading provider of Value Added Services (VAS) solutions has introduced ‘Digital books on Mobile’ feature on its newly launched site Rockasap.com. With the help of this M-commerce application users can download books, get instant shopping alerts, search, select and order favorite products and services on mobile and pay either through online or Cash on delivery mode via RockASAP.com. Rockasap launched its beta mode site four months ago. The site is … [Read more...]
Airtel ropes in Infosys to power mobile wallet service, aims to support cashless payments
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mobile payment services are gradually gaining grounds in the Indian market. Global payment companies, banks, telecom vendors and mobile financial solution providers are keen to grab the market share of the Indian mobile payments market, which is seen as the next bastion of growth through mCommerce. To cash in the opportunities present in this segment, Bharti Airtel has roped in Infosys to power its mobile wallet services. On the launch Rohit Malhotra, CEO, Karnataka Bharti Airtel said “This … [Read more...]
Allschoolstuff reports 3X growth with phenomenal selling through Facebook
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
AllSchoolStuff.com, the largest e-tailer of educational and school supplies in India has been witnessing an upsurge in demand for its offerings as the school season advances. Since its beta rollout last year, it has been registering a 3X growth month-on-month, in terms of orders and sales. According to Manoj Chandra, Founder & CEO, AllSchoolStuff.com, the company has closed nearly 300 orders through its Facebook Page on a single day last week. Speaking more about the growing popularity of … [Read more...]
Exclusive: Fernsnpetals registers 100 percent growth in business this Valentine season, avg ticket size up by 4X
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Fernsnpetal, one of the leading etailers of flower, chocolates and other gifting products in the country experienced more than 100 percent growth this Valentine season as compared to last year. Talking exclusively to iamwire, PawanGadia, CEO, FnP.com said “Valentine’s Day is the biggest occasion for a florist and we have achieved a growth of 100% compared to last year and in fact the number of orders were so heavy that we had stopped booking new orders on 14th Feb at 9 am onwards”. … [Read more...]
“Chhotu.in will use the raised fund to increase the serviceable reach & expand offering to warehousing and packaging” – Navneet Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, Chhotu.in
February 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
Delhi based Santa Claus Couriers that runs e-commerce logistics company Chhotu.in, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Global Super Angels. In order to know more about the deal, iamwire exclusively interacted with Navneet Singh, Co-Founder & CEO, Chhotu.in. Speaking about the allocation of the raised fund, Singh said that we will use it to increase our serviceable reach and expand our offering to warehousing and packaging. Below is the major part of interaction. According to … [Read more...]
Exclusive: a2zbaby denies sale rumours, expects to achieve $ 2 million sales in 2012
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
a2zbaby.com an online baby care retailer has ruled out all the speculations of being on sale. The Times of India had reported that smaller firms such as a2zbaby with scant capital are unable to cope and looking for buyers. Interacting exclusively with iamwire, Premanshu Singh, Founder, a2zbaby, said “ a2zbaby is doing good and we have no such plans . We had launched a2zbaby in early 2011 and since then we are experiencing good traction. We are registering 65% growth month on month in terms of … [Read more...]
Exclusive: Delhi based digital media agency launches online toy store toygully.com
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Elixir Web Solutions, a Delhi based digital media agency has launched www.toygully.com, an online toy shop. Toygully aims to offer a great shopping experience to would-be parents, new parents and kids who can choose toys based on their age, brands and price. At present, it showcases 11 categories including outdoor play, art & craft, learning, sporting goods and dolls. It offers brands like Ra.One, Funskool, Barbie, Disney, Boon, and Dr. Woods along with several others. It claims to ship … [Read more...]
Speculations apart: “Yebhi.com is going great guns” – Manmohan Agarwal, Brand Owner, yebhi.com
February 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
Indian e-tail market is poised to grow anywhere between 3X to 5X in 2012 and yebhi.com will grow at least by 3 folds in this year – this is what Manomhan Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, yebhi.com said in an exclusive interaction with Iamwire. Manmohan spoke at length on various aspects and shunned all the rumors and speculation about any trouble in raising the next level of funding and buyout. He termed all these speculations baseless, wild and nerd. Here are the major excerpts of the … [Read more...]
“Retail in India is not woken up to the fact that etail is here and big” – Mahesh Murthy, Managing Partner, Seedfund
February 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
Internet Retail Expo 2012 has concluded successfully with various thoughts emerging from the think-tanks of the online fraternity. During the course of the event iamwire caught up with Mahesh Murthy, Partner Seedfund for a live chat. As expected, Murthy spoke at length on aspects like integration of offline and online Retail, investment perspective, marketing and few demises of e-tailers in 2011. Below is the brief interaction. … [Read more...]
Exclusive: With online shoe shopping on rise, Delhi based Fashos.com – a shoe etailer registers 2X growth
February 21, 2012 By 1 Comment
Fashos.com, a Delhi based online retailer in footwear vertical has been registering 2X growth in terms of orders and revenue Week on Week (WoW). It is an interactive fashion footwear portal that caters to the needs of traditional shoppers as well as the social online shopper through suggestive buying. Interacting exclusively with iamwire, Navin Joshua, Co – Founder, fashos.com said “We have launched in November and since then we are experiencing 2X growth WoW. In November, we had around … [Read more...]
PolicyBazaar launches mobile website for Internet enabled handset
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Looking at the importance of insurance in every aspect of life, Info Edge and Intel Capital-backed insurance aggregator portal PolicyBazaar.com has launched its mobile website M.PolicyBazaar.com. On the launch of the site, Akshay Mehrotra, CMO, PolicyBazaar.com said, “With increasing mobile penetration in the country, mobiles are becoming the tool for accessing internet. The consumers owning Internet enabled handset is growing at 300 per cent a year. We believe the next growth in the e- … [Read more...]
Social shopping is on rise, fopping.com registers 100 % growth MoM
February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Fopping.com, a Hyderabad based social shopping website has been registering 100 percent growth MoM since its launch in November 2011. It is an exclusive club where Fopping’s members get exclusive discounts on the chosen products. Sharing the experience of so far journey of Fopping.com, Rama Jamili, Co-Founder & CEO fopping.com said “we are witnessing launch of ecommerce sites almost every day, however there is an array of trading opportunities also available on social networking sites … [Read more...]
Snapdeal to expand beyond the group buying space, in talks to buy an e-commerce site
February 18, 2012 By 2 Comments
Ecommerce in India is rising as fundings are creeping in from all sides. Acquisition seems to be on the round and in the coming days Indian site may see few acquisitions. Group buying portal Snapdeal, one of the India's largest deal providers across services and product, is in advanced talks to acquire an e-commerce company soon, according to iamwire’s sources. Last year Snapdeal raised $40 million one of the biggest fundraising deals by an e-commerce firm. The portal is looking to buy a … [Read more...]
Alibaba.com collaborates with FIEO to educate Indian SMEs about global trade opportunities on internet
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In a bid to push B2B participation in ecommerce, Alibaba.com, one of the leading small business e-commerce companies, has partnered with Federation of Indian Exporters Organisation (FIEO) to assist Indian small and medium businesses in improving global trade prospects through usages of internet. According to the company statement, it will participate in workshop on “Trade Risk Management and Sourcing Buyers through the internet” organised by FIEO, in Chennai to drive greater exports from … [Read more...]
To cash in on etailing of sports gear, Indiaplaza launches online sports store
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In order to tap the rising e-tailing category of sporting gears, Indiaplaza.com has launched ‘Sports Store’ as a part of its lifestyle segment. The Sports store offers a wide range of sportswear and sports accessories and includes international brands of repute such as Artengo, Kalenji, Inesis, Quechua, to name a few. S. Shriram, Head, Lifestyle at Indiaplaza said, “We are thrilled to launch the sporting vertical at Indiaplaza.com. Currently, shoppers have to travel searching for their … [Read more...]
“We complement big players like Amazon than conflict with them” – team Ladyblush
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Indian ecommerce industry has been experiencing debuts of innovative business model across various categories. At the same time, we also have seen roll outs of few market places such as ShopClues, Junglee including recent LadyBlush, a dedicated marketplace for women, that claims to be India’s first ‘women only’ shopping website. Understanding the business model and vision of three co founders – Rahul Sethi, Suneet Manchanda and Nagarjun Shrivastava behind ladyblush.com, iamwire … [Read more...]
