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30 Sep

Amazon India creates more than 110,000 seasonal job opportunities

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Amazonhas created more than 110,000 seasonal job opportunities across its operations network, ahead of the festive season. In-line with its commitment to create meaningful work, these opportunities include direct and indirect jobs across India in cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow and Chennai,among others. These new job arein addition to the 8,000 job opportunities that Amazon recently announced during its first ever Career Day in India, earlier this month. The seasonal opportunities are yet another step forward in Amazon India’s commitment to create 1 million new job opportunities in the country by 2025. Akhil Saxena, VP…

30 Sep

Amazon India shares findings: 21 cities study

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Amazon India has shared findings of a study commissioned by the company to understand the expectations of small and medium businesses (SMBs) selling on the Amazon India marketplace from the upcoming festive season. The study was conducted in English and regional languages by Nielsen amongst almost 2000 (1965) sellers registered on Amazon.in from 30th August 2021 – 09th September 2021. The study covered sellers from 21 cities across India.All sellers surveyed shared that e-commerce will help them reach a wider set of customers this festive season as compared to previous years. Sumit Sahay, Director, Selling Partner Services, Amazon India commented…

30 Sep

Amazon.in Expands Regional Language Offering with Marathi & Bengali

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Amazon India has announced that customers can now access Amazon.in in Marathi and Bengali in addition to the five previously available languages – Hindi, English, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. In the coming weeks, Amazon.in will expand its regional language offering further with the launch of voice shopping experience in Hindi.The upcoming launch of the voice shopping experience in Hindi follows the launch of Voice shopping in English in 2020. With this launch, customers will simply be able to use their voice in Hindi to search for products or check their order status. For the launch of Amazon.in in Marathi…

30 Sep

Amazon Launches Sellers Registration & Account Management Services in Bengali

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Amazon India has announced the launch of seller registration and account management services in Bengali. This launch will benefit thousands of existing Amazon sellers and lakhs of new sellers from tier – 2 and below markets to run their business on Amazon.in marketplace in a language of their choice and preference. With this launch, sellers will now be able to register on Amazon.in and manage their online business from a selection of eight languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and English. To launch the services in Bengali for sellers, Amazon.in worked with expert linguists to develop…

29 Sep

Amazon India launches its largest Fulfillment Centre in India

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Amazon India has launched the largest Fulfillment Centre(FC) in the country with a storage capacity of more than 2.4 million cubic feet in the city of Bangalore. With this launch, in the State of Karnataka, Amazon India has increased its overall storage capacity by 60% and now, has more than 6.5 million cubic feet of storage space spread across 5 fulfillment centres.This expansion will also create diverse and meaningful work opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds,especially for locals in the nearby regions. This significant expansion in infrastructure will give over42,000 sellers in Karnataka greater than before access to a larger…

11 Sep

Amazon launches new delivery station in Guwahati

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Amazon India announced the launch of a new Delivery Station in Guwahati, Assam. Spread across 10,000 square feet, the new station will enable Amazon to further strengthen its last-mile delivery network and ensure faster deliveries across the city of Guwahati and in areas such as Sonapur, Hatigaon, Beltola and Ambari, ahead of the upcoming festive season. Investments in Delivery Stations enable faster last-mile deliveries of orders to customers in the region and create local jobs in the city. The company further announced the expansion of its delivery network with the launch of 8 new Amazon-owned and partner Delivery stations in…

20 Jul

Amazon made an announcement increase in storage capacity of fulfilment network

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Amazon India made a declaration of its plans to enlarge its fulfilment network in India, with nearly 40% increase in its storage capacity over the last year. With it's new expansion policy, Amazon.in will have more than 43 million cubic feet of storage capacity, across 15 States, supporting around 8.5 lakh sellers across India. Amazon India acquires more than 60 fulfilment centers and more than 25 professional sites dedicated to Amazon Fresh selection for daily basic requirements and grocery, across India. The establishment of 11 new warehouses and enlargement of 9 existing ones across States such as Maharashtra, Bihar, Gujarat,…

10 Apr

Amazon cumulatively digitized 2.5mn MSMEs

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Amazon India has digitized 2.5 million MSMEs, enabled cumulative exports worth $3 billion and helped create nearly 1 million jobs in India till date. Last year at the inaugural Sambhav Summit, Amazon had announced an investment of $1 billion to digitally enable 10 million MSMEs, enable ecommerce exports worth $10 billion and create 1 million additional jobs in India between 2020 and2025. The company is on track to fulfill these commitments. Amit Agarwal, Global Senior Vice-President and Country Head of Amazon India, said,“As the world around us is more digital than ever with the internet and technology becoming an integral…

27 Mar

OPPO F19 Pro+ 5G price starts at Rs 25,990

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After a successful launch of the F 19 Pro Series on 8March,OPPOannounced the sale of the F19 Pro+5G and F19 Pro,starting 17March.The F19 Pro+ 5G boasts of AI Highlight Portrait Video, Smart 5G, 50W Flash Charge and OPPO’s proprietary System Performance Optimizer. The ultra-thin phone sports dimensions of 7.8mm x 73.4mm x 160.1mm, and is also Ultra-Lightweight at about 173g. The One-Piece Quad Camera at the back is covered by a single piece of Gorilla Glass 5 which keeps it elegant and smooth to touch. Streaming videos, playing games in FHD can’t get clearer than on the 2400 x 1080…

10 Oct

Amazon India expands its reach in North East

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With close to 60 Amazon-owned and Delivery Service Partner stations in the region, Amazon India has added several new pin codes to its delivery footprint ahead of the festive season this year, including remote towns such as Champhai, Kolasib, Lumding, Pasighat and Mokokchung. With these, the company expanded its delivery network in the 8 states of North East India. Amazon has partnered with local entrepreneurs as part of the Delivery Service Partner program, enabling these small businesses with growth opportunities and helping Amazon India to penetrate into tier 3 and tier 4 locations in the North East with its own…