The demand for warehousing executives in India has grown by 18% between January and August 2018 from a year ago, while the number of candidates joining the sector rose 17% during the period, jobs listings site QuikrJobs found in a recent study. Its research was based on entry-level hiring across 10 million resumes and over 500 role types from QuikrJobs.

Publication: Quartz

Date: September 10, 2018

Several players that started as native-only online players are turning their e-tailing business on its head. Players such as Pepperfry, Nykaa, Urban Ladder, Myntra and Jaypore and many more have opened brick-and-mortar retail stores in the past one year. Paytm is tying up with a brick-and-mortar store and setting up Paytm Malls for users to be able to see and touch physical products and complete transactions online. Pepperfry, the online furniture retail store, has 21 physical format stores, and more are on the anvil as it franchises out its presence to businessmen across India.

Publication: Business World

Date: September 11, 2018