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In 2017, Flipkart sold 1.3 million phones in 20 hours on 21 September during its Big Billion Days promotion, doubling the number sold on the first day of the same event in 2016. [39] Flipkart held a 51% share of all Indian smartphone shipments in 2017, overtaking Amazon India (33%). [40]
Spouse. Trisha Bansal. Binny Bansal (born 1982/1983) is an Indian billionaire [2][3] Internet entrepreneur. [3] As of February 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$1.4 billion. [1] In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart. [4][5] He was the chief operating officer until January 2016, when he was promoted to chief executive ...
India has an Internet user base of about 690.0 million as of November 2023, about 40% of the population. [1] Despite being the second-largest user base in world, only behind China (1.079 billion, 48% of population), the penetration of e-commerce is low compared to markets like the United States (266 million, 84%), or France (54M, 81%), but is growing, adding around 6 million new entrants every ...
In 2018, Bansal exited Flipkart following the Walmart deal. [6] In 2007, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (not related) founded Flipkart whose valuation in 2018 was $20.8 billion. [7] In 2018, Bansal held a 5.5 per cent stake in Flipkart, which he sold to Walmart and his net worth then was a little over $1 billion. [7]
[36] [37] [38] Similar to U.S.-style shopping events such as Black Friday, online retailers adopted the practice of holding multi-day promotions during this period, such as Amazon's "Great Indian Festival" and Flipkart's "Big Billion Days". India's Independence Day (August 15) had also recently attracted similar events. [38] [39]
PhonePe. PhonePe is an Indian digital payments and financial services company [5] headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. [6][7] PhonePe was founded in December 2015, [2] by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. [8] The PhonePe app, based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), went live in August 2016.
BigBasket is an Indian online grocer headquartered in Bangalore, India, and currently owned by Tata Digital. [1] It was the first online grocer in India, set up in 2011. It is a registered company with the name Supermarket Grocery Supplies Pvt. Ltd. [10]
As of 2017, Walmart offers in-store pickup for online orders at 1,000 stores with plans to eventually expand the service to all of its stores. [ 317 ] On May 9, 2018, Walmart announced its intent to acquire a 77% controlling stake in the Indian e-commerce website Flipkart for $16 billion [ 318 ] (beating bids by Amazon.com), subject to ...