...E-business (Electronic Business), derived from such terms as ‘e-mail’, ‘e-commerce’, is the conduct of business on the internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners. History of ecommerce dates back to the invention of the very old notion of "sell and buy", electricity, cables, computers, modems, and the Internet. Ecommerce became possible in 1991 when the Internet was opened to commercial use. Since that date thousands of businesses have taken up residence at web sites. At first, the term ecommerce meant the process of execution of commercial transactions electronically with the help of the leading technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) which gave an opportunity for users to exchange business information and do electronic transactions. The ability to use these technologies appeared in the late 1970s and allowed business companies and organizations to send commercial documentation electronically. Although the Internet began to advance in popularity among the general public in 1994, it took approximately four years to develop the security protocols (for example, HTTP) and DSL which allowed rapid access and a persistent connection to the Internet. In 2000 a great number of business companies in the United States and Western Europe represented their services in the World Wide Web. At this time the meaning of the word ecommerce was changed. People began to define...
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...as of June 2014.[1][2] Thepenetration of e-commerce is low compared to markets like the United States and the United Kingdom but is growing[3] at a much faster rate with a large number of new entrants.[4] The industry consensus is that growth is at an inflection point.[5] Unique to India (and potentially to other developing countries), cash on delivery is a preferred payment method. India has a vibrant cash economy as a result of which 80% of Indian e-commerce tends to be Cash on Delivery. However, COD may harm e-commerce business in India in the long run [6] and there is a need to make a shift towards online payment mechanisms. Similarly, direct imports constitute a large component of online sales. Demand for international consumer products (including long-tail items) is growing much faster than in-country supply from authorised distributors and e-commerce offerings. Market size and growth[edit] India's e-commerce market was worth about $2.5 billion in 2009, it went up to $6.3 billion in 2011 and to $14 billion in 2012.[1] About 75% of this is travel related (airline tickets, railway tickets, hotel bookings, online mobile recharge etc.). Online Retailing comprises about 12.5% ($300 Million[7] as of 2009). India has close to 10 million online shoppers and is growing at an estimated 30%[8] CAGR vis-à-vis a global growth rate of 8–10%. Electronics and Apparel are the biggest categories in terms of sales. Key drivers in Indian e-commerce are: * Increasing broadband Internet (growing...
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...DR. Bimal Anjum and Rajesh Tiwari (2011) in their research on “Economic and social impacts of e-commerce” explored the various economic and social impacts of electronic commerce. E-commerce has grown from e-mail to latest internet technology and business has flourished through internet. This has tremendous impact on social and economic sectors. Active mobile population has increased to 35 million in 2011. Latest e-commerce trends are online travel industry share is 76% of net commerce, online book purchasing and e-ticketing has increased, rising classified advertisements, electronic and white goods online retailing is rising, china has shown that broadband penetration and e-commerce growth is positively correlated. Governments role is very important in development of small and medium industries, education and skill development, e-banking, e-governance, and over all development of the social and economic sectors through internet technology. Inclusive growth can be achieved through e-commerce and India can become economic superpower in the world. Sumangla Rathore and Avinash Panwar in “ A Study on Internet usage Pattern with...
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...Ushamrita Choudhury Share · Comment (42) · print · T+ ON A RETAIL HIGH: The Bansals, Binny (left) and Sachin. ON A RETAIL HIGH: The Bansals, Binny (left) and Sachin. TOPICS consumer goods electronic commerce retail economy, business and finance company information From a start-up with an investment of just four lakhs rupees, Flipkart has grown into a $100 million-revenue online retail giant in just five years. Ushamrita Choudhury tracks the fairytale. “It came to me as a Christmas gift from my Secret Santa, and it was all about choice, convenience and a new relationship,” is how Naveed Ansari, a 26-year-old Project Executive from Mumbai, recounts his first experience with Flipkart. A typical professional from a metro, he's short on time, and he's invariably seeking convenience. So, an e-voucher from Flipkart seemed an ideal fit. This gift marked his initiation into the sphere of e-commerce, and the journey for him has “just begun”. Many Indians today are embracing e-retailing with enthusiasm. Popular portals such as Flipkart are spearheading the conversion of offline shoppers into online bargain hunters. Adds Naveed, as an afterthought, “I felt Flipkart was the best option as the transaction was easy, and the variety of products was a bonus.” For Flipkart, this means the unlocking of a vast audience waiting to experience the joys and comfort of shopping online. Sachin Bansal, CEO and one of the co-founders of Flipkart (the other being...
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...Introduction Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal in 2007. In its initial years, Flipkart focused on online sales of books, but it later expanded to electronic goods and a variety of other products. Flipkart offers multiple payment methods like credit card, debit card, net banking, e-gift voucher, and the major of all Cash on Delivery.[3] The cash-on-delivery model adopted by Flipkart has proven to be of great significance since credit card and net banking penetration is very low in India. History Flipkart was founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, both alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. They worked for Amazon.com before quitting and founding their own company. Initially they used word of mouth marketing to popularise their company. A few months later, the company sold its first book on flipkart.com—John Woods' Leaving Microsoft to Change the World. Today, as per Alexa traffic rankings, Flipkart is among the top 20 Indian Web sites and has been credited with being India's largest online bookseller with over 11 million titles on offer. Flipkart claims to have had at least 100% growth every quarter since its founding. The store started with selling books and in 2010 branched out to selling CDs, DVDs, mobile phones and accessories, cameras, computers, computer accessories and peripherals, and in 2011, pens & stationery, other electronic items such as home...
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...International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 02 Issue: 08 | Nov-2015 p-ISSN: 2395-0072 www.irjet.net Comparative study of Flipkart.com, Snapdeal, E-bay: India’s Leading E-business Portals Sheeba Praveen Prof.(Dr.) Devendra Agarwal Sumaiya faizyab Dept. CSE,Integral University Babu Banarasi Das Engineering College Dept. CSE, Integral University Lucknow ,U.P. Lucknow, U.P. Lucknow,U.P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract— Ecommerce portals are now trending in India. It is growing in every place and customers are showing interest in using these portals effectively. There are so many portals which are unique in their features and the design of website. After analyzing the whole model of E-commerce I found basically three business Models have evolved over a period of time in this space and each has its own Pros & cons. Rest all business models are mix and match of any of following 3 models. Keywords—Snapdeal model, E-bay model, Flipkart model modes like Cash & Card on delivery, which invariably helps the masses to avoid the hassle of making online payments, as the credit card penetration in India is very low, & people are reluctant to make online payments more to do with the Indians psyche .Since portals are giving a customized offering to the masses i.e. rite from the...
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...PROBLEMS FACED BY E-COMMERCE FIRMS IN INDIA Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction, that involves the transfer of information across the Internet. It covers a range of different types of businesses, from consumer based retail sites, through auction or music sites, to business exchanges trading goods and services between corporations. It is currently one of the most important aspects of the Internet to emerge. Ecommerce allows consumers to electronically exchange goods and services with no barriers of time or distance. Electronic commerce has expanded rapidly over the past five years and is predicted to continue at this rate, or even accelerate. In the near future the boundaries between "conventional" and "electronic" commerce will become increasingly blurred as more and more businesses move sections of their operations onto the Internet How does e-commerce work? Because there are hundreds of different products and services for consumers and the multitude of different ways these products and services can be delivered, e-commerce by its nature is varied in the way it works. In its most basic form e-commerce works as follows: Consumers choose a product or service on a website. Consumers pay electronically on the website (online credit card transactions) or using a third party payment provider such as PayPal The business owner or merchant receives the order and payment and the order is fulfilled (delivered by post...
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...BUSINESS GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY THE POWER OF INTERNET AND ITS IMPACT IN INDIA INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT PGDM[2013–15] BY: R O H I T K U M A R G O E L [DM15142] SECTION 1 Page |2 CONTENTS S.NO. I II III IV V TITLE INTRODUCTION IMPACT ON BUSINESS PRACTISES AND SOCIETY IMPACT ON GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY CONCLUSION REFERENCES PAGE NO. 3 3 6 6 8 GREAT LAKES INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT | Introduction The internet is a medium that is soaring in polarity in almost every facet of the world and is used for a myriad of reasons by persons, universities, governments and businesses. It is the network that facilitates communication among all the smaller networks and individual computer systems that connect to it. It is growing at an impressive rate due to the many services it facilitates, the ease with which services can be created, the presence of a single standard and the global reach that makes national boundaries invisible. With the dramatic increase in bandwidth, decreasing communication costs and an everincreasing number of organizations using it, the Internet has ushered in a revolution. As far as businesses are involved, the internet usage has been tested to a variety of experimentations that seek to determine the viability of using the internet to improve business practices in various industries in India. One particular aspect of business is that the internet marketing has a great impact on society. Around the world, developed countries have improved their communication systems...
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...Success factors | 15 | 6. | Challenges Ahead | 18 | 7. | References | 21 | 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 About E-Commerce As a result of globalization and revolutionized technology and in many ways its feature, the term e-commerce represents the edge of success in this modern age computers and technology. E-commerce stands for electronic commerce. It means dealing in goods and services through the electronic media and internet. On the Internet, it relates to a website of the vendor, who sell products or services directly to the customer from the portal using a digital shopping cart or digital shopping basket system and allows payment through credit card, debit card or EFT payments. E-commerce involves carrying on a business with the help of the internet and by using the information technology like Electronic Data Interchange. In general words, Electronic commerce is the activity of buying and selling of the goods and services across the world through the World Wide Web. The Customers having interest in the products and services of particular website and vendor can get information about products and can purchase anything ranging from household product like sofa set to computer and so on, comfortably by sitting one's in room and just by one click of the mouse. Although business-to-business transactions play an important part in e-commerce market, a share of e-commerce revenues in developed countries is...
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...a book selling website, the e-commerce company as a whole has grown to an extraordinary extent. The e-commerce, from its initial birth to now, has grown to be an industry of more than $300billion. Some of the largest e-commerce industry in the world are Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, etc. In India, the first e-commerce industry related to merchandise was IndiaMart, which started as a directory website for customers in the Delhi-NCR area, this was later extended for the city of Mumbai and soon to all over India. From a small directory website in 1996 it has grown to an industry worth more than $12.6 billion with loads of website for merchandise as well as travel. India has a total user base of more than 354 million, with around 6million new entrants every month. It is said that India’s growth of user base is at an inflection point, I.e., it is at a point of significant change, with a constant growth of around 8-10%. Today’s prominent ecommerce players in India are – Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm, etc. The revolutionary ecommerce business in India has really fascinated our group and we all have developed peculiar interest in this industry because of which we have decided to conduct a research in this industry. It is due to the above mentioned points that we decided to conduct a research on the status of E-commerce in India. Our research topic is as follow: “E-COMMERCE IN INDIA, SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS OR SHOULD THEY GO OMNI-DIRECTIONAL?” Barriers to E-Commerce: Despite tremendous growth...
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...We are India's most-loved online shopping club and a leader of Fashion & Lifestyle in e-retail space. Since the inception in 2010, we stand today with over 3.6 million member-base across 1200 locations pan-India, and we are also the first ones to achieve over a Million fan-base on social media in the online fashion and lifestyle segment worldwide. fashionandyou.com is a venture of the Smile Group, responsible for other e-commerce initiatives like BeStylish, dealsandyou.com, FreeCultr and Juvalia&You. fashionandyou.com is a part of Brand Alliance, an international organization formed by major private sales companies in Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, Australia, the Middle East, the USA, India, Russia and Switzerland. What we do & How fashionandyou.com gives its members access to the best of international, hi-fashion, lifestyle brands & designer labels at up to 80% off retail. With multiple options for women, men and kids, the offerings include apparel, footwear, accessories, fragrances, watches, cosmetics, home décor & lifestyle products. We bring our members over 15 new sales every day, offering merchandise from 500+ brands through limited-time events. Each sale starts at 9:00 AM sharp and lasts for 3 days on an average. The thorough selection of brands and products, the personalized before and after-sales services, the ease of site navigation and the attention to detail, ensure an offering of exceptional quality to each of our members. Registering as member helps you be prepped...
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...need any sale person to show the products, easily customers can select their liked products in to their carts, by doing online they save money and time such as paying cash on delivery and they can trail products such as cloths, shoe, pendent sets. Customers can find different products in one place that is online shopping. The main difference between my online shopping and others is software and product such as other online shopping merchandise use software from third party but I have own software to advertise and sell the products and we encourage new products in our online shopping, free delivery charges and weekend prices. It is a low cost business for me because I don’t want to buy any software from any one, reason my team developed a new software ‘nest a shop’. E-commerce is nothing but nutshell. Research question India is a viable option to start online shopping business Objectives To influence customer wants and needs through E-commerce How consumers responds to the products To fill the gaps between customer and E-commerce, doing homepage as a presentation and easy payment method Overview my business overview is to make the consumers to buy products through online shopping, because they can find easy methods to buy online shopping in our website, consumers can see lot of difference in our E-commerce website comparing to other website and we introduce different products every day, we sell the...
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...ripublication.com Flipkart-Myntra; From a Merger to an Acquisition Farhat Fatima Periyar Management and Computer College, Jasola, New Delhi Abstract The Indian e-commerce market was worth 75,000 crore, in 2013, according to a joint report by KPMG and Internet and Mobile Association of India. India has the potential to double its economic contribution via Internet, from 1.6 percent GDP at present to 2.8 and 3.3 percent by 2015 [MCkensy’2012]. Indian E-commerce is most likely to generate employment for 1.45 million people in coming two years. Emergence of the new government and its innovative policies are developing hope to bring FDI in e-commerce for local market players. Marking the biggest consolidation in the e-commerce space in India, this report puts light on India’s own Amazon; Flipkart and fashion e-tailer Myntra which jointly exposes their vision to capture more than 50% e-market share by strategic alliance. As Flipkart’s annualized sales crossed over 6,100 crore a year ahead of target. It had estimated to reach the billion dollar mark for gross merchandise value by 2015; on the other hand Myntra’s revenue was about 1,000 crore in the previous financial year. It aims to double its revenue in this financial year as it expands its seller base and adds products following China’s biggest e-retail model Alibaba.com. Myntra has about 100 sellers on board and plans to increase this number to 1,000 by fiscal end. The strategy of Flipkart is to invest around ...
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...BEIHANG UNIVERSITY 北京航空航天大学 SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 经济管理学院 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Mini Report “Flipkart.com – The E - business success story in India ” Profesor: CHEN JING Students: GANTA. MURALI - LS 1508233 VU THI THU HIEN - LS 1508226 NGUYEN KHANH LINH - LS 1508230 NGUYEN HAI YEN - LS 1508256 NGUYEN THI THU HIEN - LS 1508257 Beijing, April 11th, 2016 Flipkart.com The E - business success story in India ABSTRACT: The Research paper provides information about overall of e commerce leading platform Flipkart from India. Incredible growth in e-commerce sites in India show high rate of internet penetration in the world leading to changing facets of economic growth in the country. Today no company can afford to avoid e-commerce, and in the future E-commerce shall become part of core business functions just like marketing or finance. Flipkart is one of the first in presenting people in India with an option of online shopping and has grown to become a biggest in the business today. KEYWORDS: E-tailing , E-business, E-Commerce, Online Shopping, Flipkart,… Beijing, April 11th, 2016 INTRODUCTION Flipkart .com Vision “ To become Amazon of India” Mission “Providing a delightful and memorable customer experience” Objective “Completely hassle free shopping experience with best prices in India Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce firm, was founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, both being graduates from IIT, after...
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...2 3.1 3.1.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.4 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Topic Executive Summary Literature Review Industry Introduction Models of E-commerce Online Shopping In India Online Grocery Shopping Indian Players in Online Grocery Shopping Company Introduction Hypothesis Research Objectives Scope of the research Limitations Research Design and Methodology Sample Design Sampling Technique Data Collection Tool Used Questionnaire Data Analysis Page No. 03 05 10 12 14 18 20 26 27 30 30 30 31 31 31 32 33 36 55 57 58 60 7.1 7.2 8.1 9.1 Observations Recommendations Conclusion Biography Page 2 CHAPTER 1 Page 3 1.1 Executive Summary Internet and Information technology have made tremendous contributions for business transformation witnessed nowadays all over the world. This has given birth to E commerce which encompasses several pre purchase and post purchase activities leading to exchange of products or service or information over electronic systems such as the internet and the other Telecommunication networks. Analysing the competitive advantage of E-Commerce it is observed that E-Commerce enables simpler, faster and efficient business transactions. For developing country like India, E-Commerce offer considerable opportunity for growth. E-commerce leads to a boon for the current economic downturn. As India’s e-commerce market is worth about Rs 50,000 crores in 2011. About 80% of this is travel related (airline tickets,...
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