Global e-commerce major Amazon on Thursday said around 3 lakh sellers have joined the platform in India since January 2020.
The platform also saw local shops and offline retailers coming on board as the pandemic pushed them to explore alternative channels. More than 50,000 offline stores have joined the platform.
The e-commerce platform has over 7 lakh sellers in the country, according to its 2020 Amazon SMB Impact Report, India.
Manish Tiwari, vice-president, Amazon India, said the platform has already achieved $3 billion cumulative exports from India. There is a target to enable exports worth $10 billion from India by 2025.
“It took us the first three years to enable the first billion dollars of export. The second billion came in 18 months and the third billion just took 12 months,” he said while announcing the Amazon Digital Kendra in Gujarat on Thursday.
Amazon Digital Kendra is a physical resource centre that will provide small and medium enterprises access to third-party services, ranging from training on benefits of e-commerce, cataloguing to shipping, logistics and GST and taxation support.
Amazon on Thursday announced that its annual prime day sale will be held on July 26-27 during which there will be launches from top brands and small and medium businesses.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it will hear on July 20 the Amazon plea against the Delhi high court verdict which stayed the directive by its single-judge and paved the way for the multi-billion dollar deal to amalgamate Future Retail Ltd with Reliance Retail.
A bench of Justices R. F. Nariman, K. M. Joseph and B. R. Gavai was informed by senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the Future group, that a Singapore tribunal will begin hearing on the issue from July 12 and requested that the proceedings on the appeals be adjourned for a week.
Senior advocate Gopal Subramanian, appearing for Amazon, said he had no problem if the hearing on the appeals was adjourned by a week, as they will be busy next week before the tribunal. The bench then posted the matter for further hearing on July 20.