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  • RBNL’s chief financial officer Asheesh Chatterjee takes on the additional role of the company’s chief business officer

    RBNL’s chief financial officer Asheesh Chatterjee takes on the additional role of the company’s chief business officer

    MUMBAI: Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL) announces the appointment of Asheesh Chatterjee in the role of ‘Chief Business Officer,’ in addition to his current responsibility of serving as ‘Chief Financial Officer’ of the company. During the last year, Asheesh has been instrumental in bringing together his rich experience and understanding of the media industry to guide the Revenue and Business support teams across the company apart from his usual role of managing Finance, Legal, IT & Digital Transformation.  With his deep knowledge of the business since the past 8 years, Asheesh has been contributing in developing practices to help both the radio network’s external as well as internal stakeholders to increase business efficiency, manage costs effectively and deliver great services to clients.

    Commenting on taking on an additional role, Asheesh Chatterjee said, “It’s a pleasure to be taking on the additional position of Chief Business Officer at the company with which I have been associated for 8 years. In keeping with BIG FM’s core ethos, I intend to give it my best in taking the company into its next phase of development.”

    Speaking about Asheesh’s appointment in his new role, Abraham Thomas – RBNL CEO said, “Since his appointment in 2011, Asheesh has been an asset to the company, significantly contributing towards developing practices that enhances business efficiency, manage costs effectively and deliver great value to clients. Over the last year, he has driven the Revenue, Finance and Business support teams to meet the company’s objectives.”

  • Snapdeal collaborates with GOME to sell high privacy phones

    Snapdeal collaborates with GOME to sell high privacy phones

    MUMBAI: Snapdeal, India’s leading online marketplace, today announced the launch of smartphones by Hong Kong-based GOME on its platform. GOME’s C7 and C7 note series will be available on Snapdeal from today.

    Both the phones promise to provide many unique privacy features besides delivering an ultimate smartphone user experience.

    C7 Note

    The GOME C7 Note delivers a perfect viewing experience with 5.99” (18:9) HD+ full-screen display. Its 2.0 GHz Octa-core processor along with high-speed capability can take multitasking to the next level. The 3500mAh battery delivers a long-lasting performance with GOME’s add on OS’s machine learning optimization which further enhances the power performance of the phone.

    C7 note’s 13MP + 5MP dual rear camera let its users capture some truly amazing life moments. There’s also a 5MP camera on the front to power your perfect selfie moments.

    The phone scores high on privacy features which lets you hide details of incoming calls or notifications. These details are only revealed after unlocking the phone with the Face ID. What’s more, the user can also give a guided view of their photo gallery. You can show any photo to your friend without any worry of him/her swiping through to the next one.

    The phone is priced at Rs 6499 for 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage variant, and Rs 7999 for 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage variant. It is available in vibrant shades like black and gold on Snapdeal.

    C7

    The GOME C7 5.45” display supports (18:9) HD+ Full display that gives a perfect visual treat to its users. It also has 1.5GHz Quad Core Processor for a seamless graphics-heavy gaming experience. The 3000mAH battery for enhanced power performance.

    C7 supports a combination camera of 13 MP on the rear and 5MP on the front view to capture special moments with their personal masterpiece.

    The phone is strong yet sleek and lightweight. It fits perfectly in your hand.

    Priced at Rs 5499, it is available in shades like black and gold on Snapdeal.

  • Snapdeal offers new age gifts on Valentine’s Day store

    Snapdeal offers new age gifts on Valentine’s Day store

    MUMBAI: Snapdeal has announced the launch of its especially curated Valentine’s Day store on its platform to let users pick gifts for spouses, parents, children, and pets. The store allows users to buy gifts by gender or budget to make gift shopping less confusing and more convenient.

    The store has a huge selection of traditional valentines’ day favourite gifts like roses, chocolates, soft toys, candles, photo frames, cards, couple Tshirt combos, and heart-shaped accessories.

    It also has a specially curated new-age items that couples can enjoy together. These include drinking games, travel, and entertainment-related e-gift cards, streaming devices, gaming accessories.

    There is a great variety of thoughtful gift items under 199 including rings, handbags and clutches, pendant sets, dresses, mugs, selfie sticks, makeup, nail polish and romantic books.

    It also has a huge selection of fashion items to help users dress up for the occasion. The store has a variety of cute pet accessories including beds, clothes, toys, colourful cages and bathing kits. 

    The store has a range of over 10,000 products at up to 80 per cent discount across all categories. SBI debit card users will get an additional 10 per cent instant discount.

  • Amazon saw most ever Prime subscriptions in Q4 2018

    Amazon saw most ever Prime subscriptions in Q4 2018

    MUMBAI: E-commerce giant Amazon beat analysts' expectation for the fourth quarter of 2018 after falling short of revenue expectations for the last two quarters. The company posted revenue of $72.4 billion and a record net profit of $3 billion. Despite the strong result, Amazon’s weak guidance for quarter 1 in 2019 dragged the stock down in after-hours trading.

    While the revenue was of $72.4 billion against consensus expectation of $71.89 billion, earnings per share(EPS) came at $6.04 compared to $5.65. Though the result represents 20 per cent increase in revenue, the pace was slowest till the first quarter of 2015. Moreover, Amazon finished the year with $232.9 billion in annual revenue, passing the $200 billion milestone for the first time.

    In the earnings release, the company claimed that tens of millions of customers worldwide started Prime free trials or began paid memberships during the Holiday season. It also added that more customers signed up for Prime worldwide in 2018 than ever before but did not reveal exact number.

    The success of Alexa has been especially mentioned in the release. “Alexa was very busy during her holiday season. Echo Dot was the best-selling item across all products on Amazon globally, and customers purchased millions more devices from the Echo family compared to last year,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said.

    Amazon Web Service’s growth has again shown unbeatable revenue growth of 45 per cent reaching to $7.43 billion in the quarter. The company’s “other” category which primarily comprises advertising services jumped 95 percent to $3.4 billion in revenue.

    Jeff Bezos led company called out the introduction of localised Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu language user interfaces in Amazon Prime Video India. It also mentioned the nomination of Inside Edge as the first Indian show from a video streaming service for the International Emmy Awards.

    “Amazon partnered with ICICI Bank to launch the Amazon ICICI Bank credit card to preselected customers in India. This is the first card in the country to offer Prime members 5 per cent in reward points for their purchases on Amazon.in and reward points for all other payments where Visa is accepted,” the release read further.

    However, the new FDI e-commerce rules in India, which include an e-commerce company with a marketplace model will not exercise control or ownership over the inventory that will be sold, is highly concerning the investors of Amazon. E-commerce restrictions can hit Amazon badly as it prevents to drive down prices in the country also. Moreover, it comes at a time when the company’s international sales growth also slowed to 15 percent compared to the previous year's 29 percent growth rate.

  • Snapdeal celebrating Republic Day with 5-day sale

    Snapdeal celebrating Republic Day with 5-day sale

    MUMBAI: E-commerce marketplace Snapdeal has kick-started its 5-day Republic Day edition of ‘Deals of India’ sale from 20 January. The sale offers a large collection of attractively priced TVs, home appliances, kitchen essentials, and winter items.

    A number of products including stylish jackets, cute beanies, multicoloured skull caps, hot water bags, heating pads, heel repair silicone sleeves can be bought at discounted prices. Winter appliances like kettles, egg boilers and barbeques are also on sale. Mixer grinders, choppers, blenders, thermos, flasks, and thermally coated lunch boxes have huge discounts on them.

    A range of dry fruit including almond, cashews, walnuts, nuts, berries and trail mixes are also on sale to keep you warm.

    The sale has blockbuster deals on appliances like TVs from Intex, Westway, and more starting Rs 3,999. Vacuum cleaners start at Rs 1799 with multi-purpose American Micronic wet and dry vacuum cleaner priced at Rs 6,799. Skybags, backpacks and luggage are available at a discount of up to 70 per cent. Leather backpacks are available at a throwaway price starting Rs 500.

    SBI debit card users get an additional 10 per cent discount.

  • Product selling norms tightened for e-commerce sites

    Product selling norms tightened for e-commerce sites

    MUMBAI: The government of India, in its new set of orders, has listed out new rules for e-commerce services like Amazon, Flipkart, Grofers, and BigBasket to make consumer-experience more satisfactory and secure.

    As per the new directives released by Commerce and Industry Ministry, shopping sites are now barred them from selling products of companies in which they have a stake while FSSAI has stepping up scrutiny of food companies, stating that there can be no compromise on last-mile delivery and safety of food products.

    “An entity having equity participation by e-commerce marketplace entity or its group companies, or having control on its inventory by e-commerce marketplace entity or its group companies, will not be permitted to sell its products on the platform run by such marketplace entity,” the Ministry mandated in a statement. It has also prohibited e-commerce companies from entering into an agreement for exclusive sale of products.  

    As per the directives, the e-commerce sites cannot exercise ownership or control over the inventory and can enter into transactions with sellers only on B2B basis.

    On the other hand, FSSAI has announced that food products supplied by online portals are now liable to be sampled at any point in the supply chain. Companies will also need to provide an indicative image of the food on their platforms so that consumers can recognise the product. All mandatory information mentioned in the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act will also have to be provided to consumers before purchase and only fresh food should be delivered to consumers. Food should have a remaining shelf life of 30 per cent or 45 days before expiry at the time of delivery, the guidelines said.

  • Myntra, Jabong Christmas sales attract 2.5 mn online buyers

    Myntra, Jabong Christmas sales attract 2.5 mn online buyers

    MUMBAI: As revealed by a company statement, Myntra and Jabong collectively had 2.5 million shoppers shopping from their 22 to 25 December special sale. The shoppers ordered eight million products during the sale.

    The shopping carnival also saw 7.2 lakh new customers ordering through the portals. The two portals together sold 1,200 products per minute during the four-day sale.

    "The ninth edition of End of Reason Sale concluded with Myntra and Jabong recording a massive surge in sale and traffic," read the statement released by Flipkart-owned Myntra.

    As a result of the sale, the fashion portals saw a 700 per cent surge in sales and 120 per cent increase in online traffic over normal business days, it added.

    American retail giant Walmart-owned leading e-commerce player Flipkart Group includes online fashion portals Myntra and Jabong.

    "Sports goods were the highest selling category with a total of eight lakh pairs of shoes sold across the country during the sale," the statement added.

  • Swiggy reimagines Santa Claus, pays tribute to Women Delivery Partners

    Swiggy reimagines Santa Claus, pays tribute to Women Delivery Partners

    MUMBAI: Swiggy, India’s largest food delivery platform, unveiled a compelling digital film celebrating the efforts of women delivery partners. As the market leader in India, Swiggy has set precedence in making the workforce more gender inclusive, and their Christmas campaign is reflective of their push for encouraging more women in the workforce.

    The digital campaign redefines Santa Claus by drawing parallels between Santa Claus and Swiggy’s delivery partners; specifically, their women delivery partners. Much like Santa, delivery partners work tirelessly and travel great distances to deliver food to thousands of homes. The film captures the start of the day of a woman executive as she prepares to set out for work to deliver food. The campaign relooks at how we define Santa Claus and acknowledges that many of these partners are women, balancing personal lives while taking on the role of a Santa delivering food.

    The campaign celebrates the brand’s growing fleet of women delivery partners. Commenting on the campaign, Srivats TS, VP Marketing, Swiggy said “Deliveries have for the longest time been a predominantly male focused job. But, by hiring women delivery partners, we want to give equal opportunities for both men and women.” He added, “When we think of Santa, the first thing that comes to mind is a rotund, jolly man. With this film, we wanted to change that and show how beautiful it is when women have the same opportunities as men and stereotypes are questioned. In this case, a single mother gets the chance to play Santa – not just by delivering food – but by being empowered to support her child.”

    Women are an integral part of Swiggy’s delivery fleet. There are over 200 women delivery partners who are a part of the 1,20,000 strong fleet, and Swiggy is looking at scaling this up to 2,000 by the first quarter of 2019.

  • INDIAN, AMERICAN AND CHINESE ARE THE TOP CUISINES INDIA LOVES: UBER EATS

    INDIAN, AMERICAN AND CHINESE ARE THE TOP CUISINES INDIA LOVES: UBER EATS

    MUMBAI: Uber Eats, the world’s largest food delivery network, today revealed a comparative snapshot of India’s most loved cuisines.

    Despite India’s rising love for international cuisines, Uber Eats’ order analysis of the last 6 months reveals that Indian cuisine took the top spot as the most savored across the country, followed by American and Chinese. Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai are the top cities that order the maximum Indian cuisine.

    Interestingly, for breakfast, it was variations of Indian cuisine all the way with Paratha, Masala Dosa, Poha, Idli and Samosa being the top 5 items ordered.

    Deepak Reddy – Head of Central Operations – Uber Eats India said, “While Indian cuisine still stands as the consumer’s top food preference in the country, there is a huge demand for a larger choice and selection of cuisines. At Uber Eats, our aim is to ensure that consumers have access to the cuisines of their choice wherever they may be. We stay committed to onboard unique restaurants on our platform and make greater choices available for consumers, so that they can enjoy their favorite meals delivered right at their doorstep or office desk at the tap of a button.”

    Between breads: According to the analysis, the cities of Indore, Delhi and Bengaluru recorded the highest cravings for classic American food, with Veg Hot Dog and Chicken Burgers topping charts.

    Love for Indo-Chinese: In 2018, cities that craved the flavors of China are Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. While Delhi ordered baskets full of chilli potatoes, Mumbai loves a full-fledged Chinese meal inclusive of Fried Rice and Chicken Chilli Gravy

    Say cheese: Another global sensation savored across the nation – Italian. Mumbai recorded the highest number of orders for cheesy Italian delights. Not far behind, Delhi and

    Pune gobbled down large quantities of flavorful Italian food, mainly consisting of cheese loaded pizzas.

    Thai-tanic: Indians love relishing tangy and spicy flavors of Thai food. The popularity of this cuisine is seen highest among the cities of Bengaluru, Chennai and Pune.

    Middle-Eastern Delights: Interestingly, Chennai, Bengaluru and Coimbatore are the top three cities that opted for middle-eastern dishes.

  • Flipkart Fashion announces first-ever ‘Best of Season Sale’ with the best offers from top brands

    Flipkart Fashion announces first-ever ‘Best of Season Sale’ with the best offers from top brands

    MUMBAI: Flipkart Fashion, India's largest online fashion store, has announced its flagship sale, the Best of Season Sale (BOSS), starting on the 20th and running until the 24th of December, offering the best of fashion brands and the latest selection of styles. The first edition of BOSS will showcase over 50 lakh styles from 1000+ brands that are offering discounts of 50 to 80%. There will be an additional 10% off only on Day 1 and an additional 10% off on payment with SBI debit cards on purchase of Rs1500 and above. BOSS will feature the best offers from all leading brands across categories including footwear, clothing, accessories and sportswear.
     
    Flipkart Fashion is also offering Flipkart Plus members an additional 10%-15% off over and above the sale prices by using Flipkart Plus loyalty coins. Customers can redeem 10% discounts using 10 Flipkart Plus coins and 15% discounts using 15 Flipkart Plus coins. Customers can also redeem 25% discounts using 25 Plus coins. 
     
    “As India’s fashion capital, Flipkart Fashion offers variety of brands that cater to varied customers, from premium products to those looking for value purchases. We want to be representative of what India is buying and we have focused on offering an unmatchable selection on our platform, to address the aspirations of all our fashion-conscious customers.
    This year, in the first edition of our flagship sale, BOSS, we are offering the best in fashion to millions of shoppers and are expecting over 10x growth in unit sales on the platform. Also with close to 50% customers transacting from tier II/III cities, we are sure the compelling offers from leading brands will help drive new customer acquisition for Fashion business & Flipkart, further cementing us as India’s true fashion capital.” said Rishi Vasudev, VP, Flipkart Fashion

    Top offers to look out for:

    a)    Flat Rs1000 off on shopping of Rs5000 and above, Flat Rs500 off on shopping of Rs3000 and above & Flat Rs200 off on shopping of Rs1500 and above

    b)    Buy 1 Get 3 Free, Buy 1 Get 4 Free

    c)    Best Offers on Premium Brands –

    1.    Marks &Spencer’s-  FLAT 50% off
    2.    Tommy Hilfiger – Min 50% off
    3.    Aldo- – Min 50% Off
    4.    Fossil – Up to 40% Off
    5.    Ducati – Min 50% Off
    6.    Nike – Min 40% Off
    7.    Michael Kors – Min 50% Off

    d)    Biggest Discount Store of the country
    1.    Flat 80% Off on 2 lakh + styles
    2.    Flat 70% Off on 8 lakh + styles
    3.    Flat 60% Off on 15 lakh + styles
    4.    Factory Price Store – Up to 90% Off

    e)    Offers on Fresh Collection
    1.    US Polo Assn  – Min 40% off
    2.    Reebok – Min 40% off
    3.    Forever 21 – Min 40% off
    4.    W – up to 50%
    5.    Van Heusen – up to 60% Off
    6.    Casio – up to 40% off  – & many more

    f)    Budget Buys this season
    1.    Casual Shoes Under 999
    2.    Men’s T-shirts Under 499
    3.    Watches Under 699
    4.    Handbags Under 999

    g)      Lowest Prices Guaranteed
    1.    Miss CL Handbags – Min 70% off
    2.    Provogue shoes, wallets, belts – Min 60% off

    h)    Best Seasonal Offers
    1.    Winter Store – min 50% Off
    2.    Travel Store, Gifting Store, Wedding and Festive Store, Party store – up to 70% off

    Boss of all Deals to look out for

    1.    Saara, Divastri Sarees – min 80% Off
    2.    Safari Trolley bags Flat 75% off
    3.    Flying Machine, LEE, Wrangler, Numero Uno Mens Jeans Rs. 799- 849/-
    4.    Arrow, Van Heusen Shirts Under 699
    5.    Peter England Pack of 2 Shirts @ 999
    6.    Watches Under 699- FastTrack, Timex and Maxima
    7.    Asics, Nike at Rs.1999 (MF+WF)
    8.    Min 60% off on AT & Skybags- Backpacks & Luggage
    9.    Carlton London, Lavie Women’s Footwear’s Min 65%
    10.    FastTrack Sunglasses Under 499
    11.    Crocs Min 70% Off – kids footwear
    12.    Under 799 Diana Korr Exclusive Handbags
    13.    Libas Min 65% Off
    14.    UCB, Jack & Jones T-shirts Under 449
    15.    Puma Shoes min 60% Off
    16.    Bata Shoes Under 899
    17.    UCB, Levi's, VANS Shoes at Min 70% Off
    18.    Trolleys Starting 999: Provogue, Safari, Police
    19.    Pepe Jeans, Wrangler, Lee, United Colors of Benetton Jackets & Sweatshirts-Min 60% Off.
    20.    FastTrack, Titan, Casio Min 20% Off
    21.    Liberty Sandals & Slippers Starting at Rs 199
    22.    Newport Women's Jeans at Rs.199
    23.    UCB KIDS T-shirts under 299
    24.    Woodland Min 40% Off
    25.    Vero Moda, Only,Forever 21 Min 60% Off