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  • ShopClues launches kids and gifting stores

    ShopClues launches kids and gifting stores

    MUMBAI: ShopClues has launched two new categories on its platforms namely kids store and gifting store.

     

    ShopClues AVP – categories Nitin Kochhar said, “We are committed to becoming the preferred destination of online shopping for our users. To fulfil this goal, it is imperative that we constantly innovate and enhance our bouquet of selection to meet every need and desire. Kids shopping and gifting have emerged as very lucrative and segment in the e-commerce space and with the launch of these two categories on our portal, we would further consolidate our market leadership position in India.”

     

    The Kids store will offer apparel, toys and accessories for children up to the age of 12. From prams to telescopes, footwear to dolls and soft toys, the entire gamut of children’s needs is available on the platform. Gifting store also will have a plethora of choice segmented by occasions, personalised gifting options and corporate gifting options. One can even shop for gift coupons, make a present of special experiences such as a spa session or a romantic wine dinner or buy bouquets and hampers.

  • ShopClues makes top talent acquisition for categories div

    ShopClues makes top talent acquisition for categories div

    MUMBAI: ShopClues has appointed Raunak Raheja and Nitin Sharma as category management directors.

     

    While Raheja’s focus at ShopClues will be on scaling up the wholesale marketplace initiative, Sharma will be helming the electronics category.

     

    Raheja will be overseeing the key properties of ShopClues including the neighbourhood store initiative and cross border trade. Heading the wholesale marketplace initiative, he will also be planning the strategic roadmap for B2B channels and driving the refurbished products supply.  

     

    ShopClues co-founder and chief business officer Radhika Aggarwal said, “At ShopClues, we are scaling up at a breakneck speed. Category management is a vital vertical for us during this phase of evolutionary growth. I’m pleased to welcome Raunak and Nitin on board at ShopClues. Both of them come with profound experience in e-commerce and category management and    we look forward to their valuable contributions to our growth gradient.”   

      

    Sharma is a telecom and IT sales professional with over 12 years of experience. He was previously HP India Sales country category manager for Ink Supplies. He has also been associated with other top businesses in the country including Nokia, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications and Taj Group of Hotels.

     

    Raheja is an e-commerce and retail professional with over 9 years of work experience in marketplace & e-retailing models. He has diverse experience and has also worked with e-commerce companies like eBay, HomeShop18 and Ibibio Web. 

  • ShopClues launches Neighbourhood Market for localised sellers

    ShopClues launches Neighbourhood Market for localised sellers

    MUMBAI: E-commerce venture ShopClues is set to redefine online shopping norms with its latest offering – the Neighbourhood Market. 

     

    With this new feature, ShopClues will create opportunities for localised sellers to showcase their products to buyers near them across mobile and web platforms. The discovery engine selects and brings forth deals and merchandise of local vendors, spread across all categories for an easy purchase experience. 

     

    The Neighbourhood Market will also provide customers with best prices along with faster delivery timelines, speedier complaint resolution and quicker return protocol. ShopClues is targeting a reduced delivery time of four hours with this initiative.

     

    ShopClues.com co-founder and CEO Sanjay Sethi said, “ShopClues is known in the e-commerce segment for its value-driven technological development and innovative shopping approach that cater to the specific preferences of Indian consumer. Our latest offering, the Neighbourhood Market will enable local shoppers and sellers to interact for a better overall shopping experience. Many of our users are first-time buyers who are used to shopping from malls or local bazaars. They prefer to have a physical face to their purchases which is now possible with our new property.”

     

    At present, ShopClues offers more than 19 million products from around 200k sellers across the country and has over two million daily visitors.

  • Dentsu Aegis Network wins big at 2015 DMA Asia Echo Awards

    Dentsu Aegis Network wins big at 2015 DMA Asia Echo Awards

    MUMBAI: WATConsult, the digital and social media agency from the Dentsu Aegis Network, bagged eight metals at the 2015 DMA Asia Echo Awards. The event was held at The Leela, Sahar in Mumbai on 6 August.

    The agency won a bronze for Kokuyo India’s Harinacs Stop Motion Animation Video campaign in the Animation category, a silver for its Nikon Cheatsheets campaign in the Illustration category, along with a silver and a gold for Sony Six’s Active Mornings On Six and NBA Mornings On Six campaigns respectively in the Publishing/Entertainment category.

    Further on, it bagged a silver for Bestseller Group’s Veromoda Marquee – Retail campaign in the Retail and Direct Sales category, a bronze for SAP India’s SAP ACE USie campaign in the Apps & New Development category and a bronze each for Peter England’s #ColourMorons by Peter England campaign and Bajaj Allianz General Insurance’s Can You Drive Like Your Dad campaign in the Branded Video category.

    The agency also earned special mentions by the Jury in the following categories:

    WATConsult founder and CEO Rajiv Dingra said, “Eight metals across seven distinct clients stand as a great testimony to the work that WATConsult is churning out across its clientele. We got 24 nominations and that surely showcases the level of our work across our portfolio. This shows that we are not a one-hit wonder agency but an agency with consistent and credible work across clients.”

    Additionally, iProspect, the global digital performance agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, bagged three awards at the DMA Asia Echo Awards. The agency won a silver for HDFC Life’s GDN Micro-Targeting campaign in the ‘Creativity-Interactive Search’ category and the Leader award for successfully working out the iLive Inventory Checker campaign for Koovs. The agency also bagged a bronze in the ‘Creativity, Interactive – Remarketing & Retargeting’ category for the iTarget campaign rendered for ShopClues.

    Under the effectiveness category, Dentsu Aegis Network’s Isobar bagged a bronze each for Reebok India’s ‘Reeboot100’ campaign and Phillips’ ‘India’s First Multi-Device Conversations’ campaign.

    Dentsu Webchutney won a bronze for Bacardi India’s ‘Bacardi Triangle’ campaign in the ‘Effectiveness’ category.

  • Sports365.in launches U Mumba’s official merchandise

    Sports365.in launches U Mumba’s official merchandise

    MUMBAI: Sports365.in has launched the official merchandise of the Mumbai-based Kabaddi team, U Mumba, exclusively on its website. It has associated as the online channel partner for the team and its merchandising partner ‘Sports & Beyond’ in a bid to exclusively market their products online.

     

    Sports365.in founder and CEO G Chandra Sekhar Reddy, “U Mumba has won the hearts of many Indians, especially with its recent win over Puneri Paltan. It is one of the most popular and well-loved Kabaddi teams of the country and we are pleased to offer its official merchandise exclusively on our platform. The availability of the new product line will attract more Kabaddi fans to our online store and also further bolster the love for the sport in India.”

     

    As of now, U Mumba’s and its sports partner’s range of products is solely available on Sports365.in. The portal plans to facilitate the sale of the merchandise on other online marketplaces like Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, Paytm and Shopclues in the coming days.

  • ShopClues’ Windows app registers over 80K users in 3 months

    ShopClues’ Windows app registers over 80K users in 3 months

    MUMBAI: ShopClues.com launched its Windows app in February and now within less than three months since launch, the app has registered 80,000 plus users.

     

    ShopClues.com co-founder and CEO Sanjay Sethi said, “India is one of the top two markets globally for the number of active Windows phone devices. Given the large-scale popularity of this operating system, it was the natural choice for us to launch a Windows app. However, we too, have been pleasantly surprised by the way users have taken to the app with such alacrity. We attribute this thumping success to the app’s ability to offer the most seamless user experience and make shopping across categories much faster.”

     

    The app lets users browse through their favourite products from the widest categories of mobiles, laptops, fashion, TV and a lot more. The app can be downloaded for free and gives instant alerts on best deals, big discounts and exciting offers. It also provides users with other features like the ability to add products to their ‘Favourite’ list for later purchase.

     

    Consumer can also benefit from ratings and reviews of other users while making purchase decisions and also share what they see/like/buy on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Additionally, the app offers multiple payment options and a completely secure and hassle-free purchase process.

  • ShopClues makes key senior leadership appointments

    ShopClues makes key senior leadership appointments

    MUMBAI: ShopClues has hired top talent in leadership ranks of its category division. The company has appointed Nitin Kochhar as AVP and Animesh Kumar associate director.

     

    Kochhar will maintain and build the strong foothold of various categories on the website including home and kitchen, electronics, tech products etc.

     

    Kochhar said, “I’m thrilled to be a part of one of India’s fastest growing e-commerce ventures. My goal will be to leverage category exposure in electronics, FMCG, baby care, books and office supplies and apply it at ShopClues. ShopClues is in an exciting phase of growth and expansion and I’m happy to come on board at this crucial stage.”

     

    Kumar added, “I’m always looking for new challenges in my career and with ShopClues I have another opportunity to deliver significant results. The marketplace and its differentiated value proposition hold tremendous potential in India. I will be keenly involved in managing category performance including SKU rationalisation, vendor relationships and contract negotiations which form a very vital aspect of any e-commerce business.” 

     

    ShopClues co-founder and chief business officer Radhika Aggarwal said, “We are most pleased to have Kochhar and Kumar on board. Our broad range of unstructured categories is one of our USPs and therefore this division is very significant for our marketplace model. Nitin and Animesh are best suited to head this division as both have over a decade of relevant experience and have played a pivotal role in turning around the e-commerce businesses they have been a part of. We look forward to the positive impact of their leadership, dynamism and proven abilities in scaling business growth.”

     

    Former Flipkart senior director of business development, Kochhar has over 10 years of professional experience.

     

    Kumar, who has been the founding team member at Fashionara, has 11+ years of leadership experience and has previously worked with companies like Indus-league, Reliance Trends Ltd. and Bharti Wal-Mart.

  • IAMAI hails CCI order to close investigation against e-commerce

    IAMAI hails CCI order to close investigation against e-commerce

    MUMBAI: The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has welcomed the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) decision to quash charges of cartelization and anti-competition practices by e-commerce companies.

     

    IAMAI hopes that this will finally put a stop to motivated charges brought up regularly by certain interested groups against e-commerce companies. IAMAI is of the view that this order will allow e-commerce companies to continue to provide innovative services to consumers in a free and fair manner.

     

    In recent months, charges have been brought by various malcontent elements that discount sales launched by numerous e-commerce websites were anti-competitive in nature. It was also alleged that e-commerce websites and online product sellers entered into exclusive agreements, thereby leading to market dominance.

     

    The CCI has ruled that e-commerce companies did not violate competition norms by indulging in cartelization or by abusing their dominant position. “The Commission is of the prima facie view that no case of contravention of the provisions of either section 3 or section 4 of the Act is made out against the opposite parties,” it said in its order.

     

    With regard to exclusive agreements, the CCI said that such pacts need not result in appreciable adverse effect on competition. “It does not seem that such arrangements create any entry barrier for new entrants. It seems very unlikely that an exclusive arrangement between a manufacturer and an e-portal will create any entry barrier as most of the products which are illustrated in the information to be sold through exclusive e-partners face competitive constraints,” the order stated.

     

    In fact, the CCI order praises the e-commerce companies by observing that online distribution channel provide an opportunity to the consumers to compare the prices as well as the pros and cons of the product. Furthermore, through the option of delivery right at their door steps, consumers have the opportunity to accept the purchase at their convenience and do not need to set aside a couple of hours at a stretch to make the purchase through a brick-and-mortar retail outlet. Therefore, at this stage, it does not appear that the exclusive arrangement between manufacturers and e-commerce/portal companies lead to Appreciable adverse effect on competition (AAEC) in the market.

  • Shopclues.com organises Mumbai’s first Sellers’s Summit

    Shopclues.com organises Mumbai’s first Sellers’s Summit

    MUMBAI: While it’s a general trend to see e-commerce companies organising events for their consumers, Mumbai saw its first Sellers’ Summit for the benefit of all the merchants organised by Shopclues.com.

     

    Close to 250 top retailers across categories of ShopClues attended the event from all over Maharashtra and Gujarat, including companies like Sukkhi, Gitanjali and HUL amongst others.

     

    Commending the organisers for a refreshing concept like this, entrepreneur and social philanthropist Ronnie Screwvala said, “I appreciate the efforts of the ShopClues team for conceptualising the unique initiative of the Sellers’ Summit to acknowledge the contributions of merchants across the country. E-commerce has fuelled the startup community in India and ShopClues has taken this potent phenomenon to its next stage.”

     

    Shopclues.com CEO and co-founder Sanjay Sethi added, “The objective is to show them our appreciation for the significant contributions they make towards our inventory and customer service excellence. Without them playing the role of pivotal stakeholders, we wouldn’t have been able to reach our present-day success.”

     

    The highlight of the Sellers’ Summit was when Screwvala handed over the Merchant Awards to handpicked retailers for their outstanding work in various spheres.

  • ShopClues’ TVC named best ad campaign at Indian e-retail Awards

    ShopClues’ TVC named best ad campaign at Indian e-retail Awards

    MUMBAI: At the recently held Indian e-retail Awards 2015, ShopClues’ TVC ‘From Ding to Dong’ released in September 2014 won the ‘Advertising Campaign of the Year.’

     

    Created by Enormous Brands, Mumbai, the TV ad campaign highlighted the online retailer’s value proposition of being the ultimate destination for a wide variety of products available at wholesale rates.

     

    ShopClues.com co-founder and CMO Radhika Aggarwal said, “We are thrilled at receiving an award for a TVC we worked really hard for. Congratulations are also in order for our creative agency and the marketing team which spearheaded the entire idea and its execution. The award validates our initial intention of creating an ad film that speaks directly to our target audience in a language that most appeals to them. It encapsulates why ShopClues is the ultimate online shopping destination in a very quirky, fun, simple yet articulate manner.”

     

    The ShopClues ad film shows a man carrying everything from utensils to ovens to geysers to kitchen ware as a stack on his head as he goes through the streets of a city. The unusual style and size of the stack attracts curious glances from onlookers. The soundtrack goes, ‘Wholesale ka rate….tu kya lega, seth‘ (At wholesale rates, what do you wish to buy, Sir?). A man from a balcony picks up a hat from the over-sized stack of goods and says, ‘Saara wholesale ka market… theek aapke ghar tak…har item wholesale rate par.’  The film ends with the tagline, ‘Sab kuch wholesale rate pe, Ding Se Lekar Dong‘ (everything at wholesale rates, from ding to dong).

     

    The Indian e-Retail Awards recognise excellence in e-retail and multi-channel initiatives by retailers.