Online Retail Acquisitions – Are Investors Cutting Losses?

It’s almost 5 years and we saw huge traction in online buying. Industry is new. But players are many. In-store retailers are also making an appearance on Internet. Investors have already put money in e-commerce. In 2009 – USD 105 million, In 2010 – USD 111 million and In 2011 – USD 908 million. Nobody is willing to miss the bus. The result – we have hundreds of etailers evolved within no time. Many of them have received huge funding from common investors. Top lines of many tier-1 retailers are growing multifold year on year but bottom line is getting a hit. Reason is Intense competition and every company is trying to grab the customers resulting in huge marketing cost and upfront discount. This is the driving force for many investors to Consolidate – join the two firms into one. The benefit – it will lower down the fixed cost and improve operational efficiency.

Many acquisitions happened to increase the product lines and it can give an inorganic growth to these companies.

The list of Recent Acquisitions

Acquirer	Acquiree
Flipkart	Letsbuy
Snapdeal	Grabbon, Esportsbuy
Yebhi	Stylishyou.in
Myntra	SherSingh, Exclusively.in
HealthKart	Madeinhealth
Fashionandyou	UrbanTouch

Local Registration - A New Tectic for Amazon

A mazon, the giant in e -commerce is now ready with its new tactic to gain more customers. Some time before the idea put forward for “ local registration ” was one such preceding move to create an output that aimed at well planned establishment of the company in the mobile market . Yes, it succeeded in its attempt and came up with “Amazon local register” . However this time what the company renders is not the conventional style – the introduction of new mobile types or stores, but a technology that could obviously contribute to a multidimensional trustworthy money transfer mechanism. Recently the system came to the mobile payment market, taking companies such as square and PayPal here. The label is a combination of a secure card reader, which must be purchased for US$10, and a free mobile app. Together, they offer a platform that allows businesses to accept credit and debit card payments using smart phones or tablet. The introductory fees for sign up on or before of 31 is 1.75 pe

List of Online Shopping Sites in USA

Here is a list of Best Online Shopping Sites in USA . This is the list of 2014 Online Shopping E- commerce Website in United States of America. Hottest U.S. Internet and Mobile Retail Sites in 2013, 2012, and 2011

Flipkart Big Billion Day Sale - $100 million -10 hours

3 weeks effort of big billion day sales by Flipkart has come to an end on same day within 10 hours of its launched . Orders - over 300,000 , Sales - $100 million in 10 hours. Flipkart has achieved its target and reached a mark of $100 million well before 1 day and put a full stop and not expecting order. Sachin and Binny Bansal , Co-founders of Flipkart confirmed in Media.

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