E-commerce
major Flipkart said it aims to help over 10,000 sellers generate
business worth Rs. 10 lakh through its platform this year.
“In
2014, Flipkart helped over 2,000 sellers become millionaires through
Flipkart sales. December 2014 alone saw over 500 sellers doing an
average business of Rs. 10 lakh each, while 50 sellers did an average of
Rs. 1 crores each,” Flipkart said in a statement.
With
a year on year growth of close to 30 percent, apparels and consumer
electronics categories have the most number of sellers who have crossed
the millionaire mark followed by sellers of home decor, jewellery,
handicrafts and large appliances.
Nearly
60 percent of millionaire sellers came from metros (Delhi, Mumbai and
Bangalore) and the rest from the non-metros, it said. “2015 projections
estimate that the numbers from the latter will double,” the statement
added.
Flipkart
said it is taking several steps like hosting workshops/sessions and SME
training programmes, offering working capital assistance and providing
marketing support services like packaging and cataloguing to sellers
with the aim to help sellers create and expand their brands.
Flipkart
will continue its efforts to better the Indian marketplace ecosystem,
so that sellers from even the most remote parts of the nation can
benefit from this business model, Flipkart SVP Marketplace Ankit Nagori
said.
“We
are confident that 2015 will see more sellers join the e-commerce
ecosystem, thus creating at least 10,000 more millionaires within the
Flipkart marketplace, especially from the tier II and III cities in
India,” Nagori said.
Last
year, Flipkart partnered with government bodies like Federation of
Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME), Director General –
Employment and Training (DGET) and National Institute of Fashion
Technology (NIFT) to help Indian MSMEs leverage the online marketplace
platform.
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