Mukesh Ambani Plans to Take on Amazon, Flipkart; Reliance to Launch Online Shopping Platform Soon
Mukesh Ambani announced to launch a new offline-to-online commerce platform to connect small retailers and shopkeepers with customers.
New Delhi, January 18: In a bid to take on leading e-commerce platforms Walmart-owned Flipkart and American multinational Amazon, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries (RIL) will soon launch its online shopping service in India. Speaking at an event on Friday, Mukesh Ambani announced to슬롯 머신 사이트 추천launch a new offline-to-online commerce platform to connect small retailers and shopkeepers with customers.
Without giving timelines, Mukesh Ambani, Asia슬롯사이트™s richest man, said Jio and Reliance Retail, which has over 9,000 stores across the country, will launch "a unique new commerce platform to empower and enrich our 12 lakh small retailers and shopkeepers in Gujarat 슬롯사이트� which are part of over 3 crore community in India." He was speaking슬롯 머신 사이트 추천at the 9th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Reliance to Invest Rs 3 Lakh Crore in Gujarat in Next 10 Years: Mukesh Ambani.
Ambani had previously spoken of leveraging the Jio network for launching some sort of e-commerce venture. According to a report, trials슬롯 머신 사이트 추천of the company슬롯사이트™s new initiatives are underway in six cities including Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Jio currently has 280 million telecom subscribers, while슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Reliance Retail슬롯 머신 사이트 추천runs nearly 10,000 outlets across more than 6,500 Indian cities and towns.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천
Notably, last month, the government tightened rules related to슬롯 머신 사이트 추천foreign direct investment (FDI) in e-commerce.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천As per the new norms, online marketplaces like Flipkart and Amazon have been barred from selling products of companies where they hold stakes and the government has also banned exclusive marketing arrangements that could influence product prices.
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