India: E-Commerce Platform Flipkart Force Handicraft Market

Flipkart, the two largest electricity supplier in India, is making efforts in the field of handicrafts, and jointly with Karnataka entrepreneurs to build online handicrafts retail business. Snapdeal, its competitor, aims at the field of agricultural tools and materials, and launches "The Agri store" to help farmers buy seeds, fertilizers, farming tools and irrigation tools online.

Recent reports show that: India Flipkart, the leading e-commerce platform, said recently that it had joined forces. Handicrafts The Export Promotion Council (EPCH) and the Karnataka small scale industrial association (Kassia) jointly helped small handicraft sellers expand their online retail businesses.

"There are many entrepreneurs in Karnataka, and we see the huge potential of local sellers to expand their business and accumulate customers on our online retail platform." Ankit Nagori, vice president of Flipkart, said in a statement.

Flipkart held a seminar. A total of 120 sellers participated. Their business involved handicrafts, home furnishings, furniture, footwear and so on. Fashion jewelry And electronic products. The theme of the seminar is "how to develop your network business".

"We have up to 26 million users in India, and we will bring local sellers to customers across the country." Nagori said.

Rakesh Kumar, executive director of handicrafts export promotion committee, also said that the association will help local artisans and entrepreneurs expand their national business with Flipkart.

The Flipkart platform has sold 20 million products, including 70 books, including books, media, consumer electronics and daily necessities. Flipkart employs about 20000 people, with a daily click through volume of eight million and a monthly shipment of five million.

As Flipkart aims at handicrafts, its competitor Snapdeal has launched the "The Agri store" agricultural products online retail service to help farmers buy seeds, fertilizers, farming tools and irrigation tools online. As a large agricultural country, India has 70% people engaged in agriculture, and the market for agricultural tools and materials is huge.

Kunal Bahl, co-founder and President of Snapdeal, said: "now farmers can easily get the agricultural tools and materials they need daily by clicking the button. The service also brings powerful Internet supermarkets to the agricultural sector to bring benefits to farmers.

"Not only that, India farmers can also browse the new internet shop through mobile phones. As we all know, agriculture is very important for people's livelihood in India. Now India farmers can shop at the PC terminal and mobile terminals, which provides great convenience for India farmers.