Flipkart-Walmart Deal

In 2017, Flipkart launched its brainchild MarQ, the company’s private label for electronic appliances, which was also the fifth such sub-brand by Flipkart. To this day, MarQ has covered a significant segment of the electronic…

Competition Commission of India (CCI) has indicated that they may suggest some major structural changes in the Flipkart-Walmart deal.

Several leading Flipkart sellers have complained that their dues are pending since January, and the company is doing nothing to resolve them. Sellers from Flipkart, Jabong and Myntra have joined together and have now come out in the open…

In a strongly worded statement, CAIT has accused ruling BJP party of shielding foreign firms and destroying Indian businesses. CAIT has joined forces with other associations of offline traders, and a formal complaint against Flipkart and…

Flipkart has decided to jump into the lucrative, high-margin niche of online travel, and more specifically, air tickets. In their first salvo, they have announced a major partnership with MakeMyTrip, wherein their backend would be used to…

In a statement issued after the deal was finalized, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has said that the new Walmart-Flipkart entity will create 1 crore new jobs in India, as various avenues of growth and progress open up in the online and offline…

As the excitement of Flipkart and Walmart deal is cooling down, reactions have started coming in from industry veterans, trade bodies, and even tax officials regarding this new development. While Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has…

The marriage of Walmart and Flipkart has ignited a series of debates all across the world - Walmart shareholders are still in shock, as their beloved company has spent $16 billion to acquire a website from India; while some analysts in…

$250 billion worth Walmart, world’s largest retailer and world’s largest private employer has officially acquired Flipkart by paying mind-boggling $16 billion. This way, Walmart now owns 77% controlling stake in the e-commerce portal…

One of the features of the eBay deal was a 4-year exclusive commercial arrangement, under which sellers on Flipkart get an exclusive window to contact more than 150 million buyers on eBay. If the Flipkart-Walmart deal is to go through,…