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E-commerce firm <keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword> has recorded a surge in demand for non-essential items like mobile phones and laptops that are required to support work from home, and academic material during the ongoing lockdown, the company said on Wednesday. The platform has recorded over 3.5 lakh requests for non-essential products with demand for mobile phones rising 200 per cent. <keyword id="6357120" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="paytm">Paytm</keyword> Mall senior vice-president Srinivas Mothey in a statement said that items like laptops, mobile phones computer accessories that facilitate work from home should be included in the list of essential items. "... we believe that the ambit of essential goods should be increased. India is mostly working from home at the moment but many are finding it difficult as they are running low on certain items necessary to effectively operate under lockdown. "Laptops, mobile phones, and accessories, computer hardware, webcams, all these things should be allowed to be part of essential goods," Mothey said. The company said that lakhs of customers over the last five weeks have earmarked their 'wishlist' on Paytm Mall, in hopes of buying them immediately after the end of lockdown. "Mobile phones which are important parts of life are seeing upwards of 75,000 requests, while 50,000 of Paytm Mall users are waiting for the lockdown to end to buy laptops. Demand for laptop charging cords, phone chargers, headphones, desktop computers, and study tables are also on an all-time high," the statement said. The company said that it has received over two lakh e-mails and 3.5 lakh requests in the comments section for delivering laptops, mobile phones, headphones, trimmers, chargers, academic books and other study materials, consumer electronics as well as white goods since the lockdown was imposed to contain coronavirus infection. According to the data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, around 97 per cent of broadband connections in the country are accessed through mobile devices. The government has allowed telecom services to support work from home during the lockdown but people are unable to buy mobile devices and related accessories due to restrictions during the lockdown. "If the lockdown continues, lack of proper technical support would hinder the efficiency of employees which in turn would affect a company's operations," Mothey said. Mobile phones industry body ICEA and traders body CAIT have jointly approached Home Minister Amit Shah for allowing sales of handsets as they are pivotal for communications during the lockdown. PRS MRMR

Paytm Mall gets over 3.5 lakh requests for electronic products during lockdown

<ul><li>Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s e-commerce bet <keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword> has announced the dates for its Maha Shopping Festival – October 16 to October 23.</li><li>The Indian e-commerce industry is counting on the festive sale and the ‘revenge buying’ trend.</li><li>According to a Redseer report, e-commerce gross merchandising volume could hit $7 billion this year during the festive season, a big jump from $3.8 billion last year. </li></ul>Festive <keyword id="6357824" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="sales">sales</keyword> are here and looks like every Indian e-commerce player wants its share in the sale bonanza. And interestingly, all Indian e-retailers are going ahead with the same dates for their sale events, with the latest to join the bandwagon being Paytm Mall. Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s e-commerce bet Paytm Mall has just announced the dates for its Maha Shopping Festival – October 16 to October 23, the same as its bigger rivals in the e-commerce segment Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, and Myntra. Paytm Mall, like its peers, has said it would focus on India’s MSMEs during the sale event. "Every year we set out to deliver the best possible shopping experience to our consumers as well as a successful sale season to lakhs of sellers. This year we want to empower thousands of MSMEs, artisans, Indian brands to leverage on our digital commerce platform as a potent distribution channel and give their consumers the best buying experience,” said Abhishek Rajan, COO, Paytm Mall, in a statement. All the sales starting from October 16 <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none; width: 468pt; table-layout: fixed;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Amazon Great Indian Festival </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Snapdeal “Kum Mein Dum” Diwali Sale </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Myntra Big Fashion Festival </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Paytm Mall Maha Shopping Festival </td></tr></tbody></table> Diwali sales are always a big deal for Indian e-commerce players, but this year it's even more so. The Indian e-commerce industry is counting to cash in on the festive sale and the ‘revenge buying’ trend. Consumers who haven’t been able to step out and shop during the pandemic are expected to add to their numbers and order volumes. According to a Redseer report, e-commerce gross merchandising volume could hit $7 billion this year during the festive season, a big jump from $3.8 billion last year. <div type="image" title="Diwali sale." msid="78677089" hostid="261"></div> SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/indians-are-ordering-a-lot-more-online-but-for-cheaper-products/articleshow/78675417.cms">Indians are ordering a lot more online but for cheaper products</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/myntra-ceo-explains-how-fashion-buying-has-changed-in-india-and-the-e-retailers-focus-on-bharat-users-this-festive-season/articleshow/78654904.cms">Myntra CEO explains how fashion buying has changed in India and the e-retailer’s focus on Bharat users this festive season</a>

Now, Paytm Mall joins Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, and Myntra with the same dates for its sale event

<ul><li>An earlier report had suggested that <keyword id="6357120" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="paytm" source="Orion">Paytm</keyword> Mall suffered a massive data breach in August 2020.</li><li>It was expected that the breach had compromised data such as the user’s phone number, email address, purchase history, and more.</li><li>An investigation by Troy Hunt has now revealed that the breached data has been fabricated.</li></ul>Update on July 29: Troy Hunt, the founder of Have I been pwned, the platform that had earlier claimed that a data breach occurred at Paytm Mall in 2020 has now revealed that after a chat with Paytm’s team, he has discovered that the data did not originate from Paytm and that it was fabricated. “An update on this breach: after loading it into @haveibeenpwned, the head of @paytm's infosec team reached out and we had a chat about the authenticity of the data, which they believe didn't originate from them. We now collectively believe it's fabricated,” Troy Hunt said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1552808334759043073">tweet</a>. Paytm, one of the largest wallet and payment services platforms, reportedly suffered a massive data breach in 2020. While the company has not accepted this, it had reportedly received a ransom demand after the data breach. Firefox Monitor, a security tracker by Mozilla that informs users if their mobile number or email has been compromised in a data breach, has today confirmed that Paytm suffered a data breach in 2020 and that data of over 3.4 million users has been discovered online. Update - Paytm has clarified the leak. “The data of our users is completely safe &amp; claims related to data leak in the year 2020 are completely false and unsubstantiated. A fake dump uploaded on the platform haveibeenpwned.com appears to wrongly alert of a data breach on Firefox browser. We are getting in touch with Firefox and the platform to resolve the matter," a Paytm spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider India. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="What information was compromised in the data breach?" comment="subhead" text="What information was compromised in the data breach?">What information was compromised in the data breach?</cmsannotation> According to a <a href="https://monitor.firefox.com/breach-details/Paytm">report</a> by Firefox Monitor, the data breach compromised information such as the user’s phone number, email address, purchase history, gender, date of birth, location and income levels. Fortunately, payment information such as saved cards was not compromised during the data breach. You need not change your passwords as the data breach did not compromise the passwords. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="How to find out if your data was compromised?" comment="subhead" text="How to find out if your data was compromised?">How to find out if your data was compromised?</cmsannotation> If you are a Paytm user and wish to know if your data has been compromised, you can follow the below steps – <ul><li>Go to Have I been pwned website <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/">here</a>.</li><li>Enter your email address or phone number and click “pwned?”.</li><li>You will then be able to see all the websites or apps where your data was compromised.</li></ul>Several users have been warned by Firefox Monitor, and Have I been pwned that their data was compromised during the breach on Paytm. <div type="twitter" handle="narayananh" handlename="Narayanan Hariharan (NithyaKarma.com)" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1504760174132690949/O8KXUu5h_normal.jpg" favoritecount="73" retweetcount="14" status=".⁦@Paytm⁩ data breach. That's an awful lot of my personal info that Paytm has let out. https://t.co/Jg5BDebhLe" createdat="1658889446000" id="1552120952200507392"></div> <div type="twitter" handle="ankitpr89" handlename="Ankit Prakash" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1216767433605668864/3_a8Y8lQ_normal.jpg" favoritecount="9" retweetcount="1" status="And PayTm data breach. https://t.co/LaRN0PQ7Pm" createdat="1658888869000" id="1552118532552671233"></div> <div type="twitter" handle="_rajendraryadav" handlename="Rajendra Kumar Yadav" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1543647761199153152/wEflOpDK_normal.jpg" favoritecount="0" retweetcount="0" status="@Paytmcare @Paytm I have been warned by @firefox monitor for Data Breach.Is it true?Please confirm?@GoI_MeitY… https://t.co/w4Ftn4vwZ8" createdat="1658894750000" id="1552143198130098176"></div> SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/oneplus-10t-to-launch-soon-in-india-launch-date-expected-specifications-and-everything-you-need-to-know/articleshow/93153501.cms">OnePlus 10T to launch soon in India – launch date, expected specifications and everything you need to know</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/redmi-k50i-mobile-phone-review/articleshow/93001395.cms">Redmi K50i review: A solid performer but lacks the charm of its predecessor</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/android-13-beta-eligible-devices-how-to-download-and-everything-you-need-to-know/articleshow/92857016.cms">Google rolls out final Android 13 beta – eligible devices, how to download, and everything you need to know</a>

Paytm Mall breach data is fabricated, says Have I been Pwned founder Troy Hunt

<ul><li>India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) today in a meeting has told all e-commerce companies in India to show the <keyword id="1340631" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Country-of-Origin">country of origin</keyword> in their product listings. </li><li>DPIIT had called the meeting to discuss the information given to consumers at these e-commerce platforms.</li><li>India’s government e-marketplace had earlier introduced the ‘Make in India’ filter for sellers to show the country of origin for the products.</li></ul>A day after the government e-marketplace introduced the ‘Make in India’ filter for sellers to show the country of origin for the products, India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) today in a meeting has told all e-commerce companies in India to show the country of origin in their product listings. DPIIT had called the meeting to discuss the information given to consumers at these e-commerce platforms. However, <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/sme/dpiit-mandates-display-of-country-of-origin-for-ecommerce-companies-like-amazon-flipkart-snapdeal-grofers/2002285/">the e-commerce leaders</a> have requested DPIIT to include sellers and traders in the meetings as they list the products on the platform. "We welcome and wholeheartedly support the government's decision to promote Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat. We are fully committed to promote India made products and the manufacturing sector in the country. We have already initiated discussions with our sellers, merchant partners on the next steps to drive this initiative further,” said a <keyword id="6357120" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="paytm">Paytm</keyword> spokesperson. The feature comes at a time when due to the Indo-China border clashes, there has been a call to dump Chinese products and people have been uninstalling Chinese apps as well. India’s government e-marketplace (GEM) had taken the same step to promote the Make in India initiative which got a further boost from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat (self reliant India). “Sellers, who had already uploaded their products before the introduction of this new feature on GeM, are being reminded regularly to update the Country of Origin, with a warning that their products shall be removed from GeM if they fail to update the same,” says the official release of the government. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/reliance-industries-shares-are-worth-more-than-hdfc-bank-icici-bank-and-kotak-mahindra-bank-combined/slidelist/76504066.cms">Reliance Industries’ shares are worth more than HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, and Kotak Mahindra Bank combined</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/mukesh-ambani-radhakishan-damani-and-shiv-nadar-took-over-10-years-to-become-a-billionaire/slidelist/76547186.cms">Indians took 17 years on an average to make their first billion— and it has gotten a lot faster recently</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/the-13-billion-hinduja-brothers-the-richest-people-in-the-united-kingdom-are-fighting-with-each-other-over-letter-dispute/articleshow/76548920.cms">The $13 billion Hinduja brothers, the richest people in the United Kingdom, are fighting with each other over a letter dispute</a>

India tells Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm Mall and all others to show 'country of origin' next to the products

<ul><li><keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword> is looking to ramp up operations and hire 300 people for product and technology roles.</li><li>The company also said that it has significantly brought down the cashburn in the last few months.</li><li>However, that could also be the result of the coronavirus lockdown during which all e-commerce services had come to a stop. </li></ul><keyword id="6357120" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="paytm">Paytm</keyword> Mall, the e-commerce vertical of Paytm owner One97 Communications, has announced that its shifting base from Noida to Bengaluru. The company also said that along with the move, it is also looking to ramp up operations and hire 300 people for product and technology roles. It has also appointed Abhishek Rajan, the head of its travel business as the new COO of Paytm Mall. “We want to bring commerce to even more customers and serve the SMEs across the country. We are well-capitalized, have a great team, and a massive network of customers to make our O2O model penetrate further in India. I am confident Abhishek will take Paytm Mall to new heights,” said <keyword id="198636" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vijay-Shekhar-Sharma">Vijay Shekhar Sharma</keyword>, Founder &amp; CEO, Paytm. The company also said that it has significantly brought down the cashburn in the last few months. However, that could also be the result of the coronavirus lockdown during which all e-commerce services had come to a stop. “We would like to think of Paytm’s e-commerce business as a Series A startup with $200 Mn cash in the bank, where key technology and operations components required for running a commerce business have already been built. In the last 3 quarters, the team has done an incredible job of bringing down the cash burn to $2 Mn/quarter,” said Abhishek Rajan, COO, Paytm Mall in a statement. Paytm Mall is also <a href="https://entrackr.com/2020/05/exclusive-paytm-mall-eyes-the-grocery-segment-through-grofers-and-milkbasket/">reportedly </a>looking to pick up a majority stake in grocery delivery startup Grofers. Both are backed by SoftBank. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/bharatpe-laid-off-several-employees-after-announcing-salary-hikes-in-april/articleshow/76128348.cms">BharatPe laid off several employees after announcing salary hikes in April</a> <a href="http://businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/infosys-reportedly-plans-to-reduce-the-number-of-managers-the-ceo-and-coo-got-over-25-salary-raise-in-fy20/articleshow/76127600.cms">Infosys reportedly plans to reduce the number of managers— the CEO and COO got over 25% salary raise in FY20</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/hindustan-unilever-limited-ceo-sanjiv-mehta-says-the-product-inventory-range-will-be-smaller-and-simpler-hereon/articleshow/76128468.cms">HUL CEO says the product inventory range will be smaller and simpler hereon⁠— analysts believe others may have the same plan</a>

Paytm Mall set to hire 300 people as it cuts down quarterly losses – shifts operations to Bengaluru

New Delhi, Apr 27 () E-commerce firm Paytm Mall will partner around 10,000 grocery and small shops in over 100 cities over the next few weeks to increase local deliveries, the company said on Monday. The e-commerce firm claims to have over 1 lakh merchants already on board. Paytm Mall said, "It will partner with over 10,000 kirana stores, small shops, and businesses for hyperlocal deliveries. The company has been investing in scaling up its hyperlocal operations over the past few weeks and is now offering delivery of grocery essentials in more than 100 cities across the country and plans to scale it to more cities within the next few weeks." E-commerce firms have been flooded with orders during the lockdown leading to delay in deliveries of product. Most of the e-commerce firms are operating in limited cities. According to Paytm Mall, there has been a massive uptick in the sales of grocery essentials from tier-II and tier-III towns. Cities including Indore, Ahmedabad, NCR, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Pune, Chennai, Ludhiana, and Bathinda have all seen a rise in orders. "Our objective is to connect neighbourhood offline stores to interested customers far and wide through our e-commerce platform. During this time of crisis, we want to ensure that our merchant partners do not lose out on business. Our tie-ups with small businesses would ensure that service our customers faster and hyper-locally," Srinivas Mothey, senior vice-president, Paytm Mall, said. The company said leading logistics players, including GATI, Ecom Express, Delhivery, Bluedart and FedEx, are working with Paytm Mall. The company said that as more fulfilment and delivery executives of logistics partners join back to work, more orders would be eligible for same-day delivery. PRS HRS

Paytm Mall to partner 10,000 more shops for hyperlocal deliveries

<ul><li>American online retail firm <keyword id="6357395" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="eBay">eBay</keyword> has bought a 5.5% stake in <keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword>. </li><li>Vijay Shekhar Sharma owned Paytm Mall hopes to turn profitable in the next two years. </li><li>However, this isn’t eBay first bet on Indian e-commerce, its previous two – <keyword id="541988" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="SnapDeal">Snapdeal</keyword> and <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword> – failed to work out for the company.</li></ul>American e-commerce giant eBay has <a href="https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/ebay-logs-into-paytm-mall-with-5-5-stake-eyes-pie-of-online-retail-1563420493902.html">bought</a> a 5.5% stake in Paytm Mall, Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s new e-commerce vertical. While the details of the transaction remain undisclosed, <a href="https://yourstory.com/2019/07/paytm-mall-funding-ebay-ecommerce-india-vijay-shekhar-sharma">reports</a> say that the American firm is pumping in about $170 million into Paytm Mall at a valuation of $3 billion. Paytm Mall, the e-commerce subsidiary of One97 communications which owns Paytm, aims to turn profitable in the next two years. The company said that it reduced its monthly spends by ₹400 million, is targeting an EBITDA breakeven by 2021-22. EBIDTA is earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and amortization. The company ended the last financial year with a Gross Merchandising Value (GMV) of ₹130 billion and is now aiming for ₹170 billion GMV by 2022. However, what’s interesting is eBay’s India growth trajectory. It had entered the Indian market in 2004, much before e-commerce really took off in the country. However, it has struggled to gain ground. eBay’s first invested in Indian e-commerce was in <a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/ebay-takes-61-million-hit-snapdeal-writes-investment-76169">Snapdeal</a> which resulted in a $61 million loss. After the disappointment, eBay moved to the Indian e-commerce success story Flipkart, where eBay sold its India operations to Flipkart in 2017. However, within a year, Flipkart shut down the operations of eBay. When the Indian retail unicorn was acquired by global giant Walmart, eBay sold its stake in Flipkart for $1.1 billion.

eBay is trying to get third-time lucky with Paytm Mall after burning hands with Flipkart and Snapdeal

<ul><li><keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword> has released its monthly spends by ₹400 million and aims to turn profitable in two years. </li><li>The company aims to rake in a ₹170 billion GMV by 2022.</li><li><keyword id="6357120" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="paytm">Paytm</keyword> Mall has had multiple problems since its inception, where there were also rumours that the company might not see the light of the day.</li></ul>Paytm Mall, the e-commerce subsidiary of One97 communications which owns Paytm, is aiming to turn profitable in the next two years. The company said that it reduced its monthly spends by ₹400 million, is targeting an EBITDA breakeven by 2021-22. EBIDTA is earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and amortization. The company ended the last financial year with a Gross Merchandising Value (GMV) of ₹130 billion and is now aiming for ₹170 billion GMV by 2022. “We do not lose money on any order we ship. More than GMV, we are focused on increasing revenue and factors contributing towards it. We expect 70-80% of the orders being shipped from the same city. We would be happy to be a cost attention company rather than no attention at all,” said Srinivas Mothey, Sr. Vice President – Paytm Mall. This is good news for the company, as its prospects did not look very good a while back and reports said that it might close down. Online to Offline Yet its fortunes changed by May 2019 as the company said that it grew by 200% in six months, and hired 200 people. In an earlier interview with Business Insider, Paytm founder <keyword id="198636" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vijay-Shekhar-Sharma">Vijay Shekhar Sharma</keyword> shared what worked for them. “Paytm Mall is a business that has learnt that Online to Offline (O2O) is the best business model. Our attention on partners keeping items in warehouses has now significantly reduced, and we have offloaded many partners," he had said. Today, the platform has 100,000 sellers and is planning to scale up by three times. It also plans to piggyback on the success of Paytm, whose monthly transactions are as much as 400 million transactions per month, to drive demand.

Paytm Mall hopes to turn profitable in 2 years

New Delhi, May 18 () Following two months of continuous lockdown and complete shutdown of salons, e-commerce firm Paytm Mall on Monday said it saw a 50 per cent rise in May so far in the sales of trimmers, epilators, face scrubbers and other personal grooming products from tier-II, tier-III and other smaller towns compared to March. The home ministry on May 4 allowed e-commerce companies to deliver non-essential products in green and orange zones, and from May 18, the firms can supply all items in red zones also. Before the government allowed deliveries of non-essential items in red, orange and green zones, Paytm Mall got over 35,000 wishlist requests for trimmers, epilators and face scrubbers, the company said in a statement. "With hairstyling and grooming salons remaining shut due to the ongoing lockdown, we have seen a massive surge in the demand for personal care products on our platform. There has been almost a 50 per cent jump in the sale of shavers, trimmers, epilators, hair straighteners and styling products, among other products," the statement said. Paytm Mall said looking at the high consumer demand for personal grooming products like shavers, hair clippers, straighteners, and beard trimmers, the company got in touch with brands and requested them to ramp up supplies. "The company is now delivering personal grooming products in all red, orange and green zones across the country," the statement said. According to the company, there has been a steady increase in the number of female shoppers from smaller towns on the platform and some of the most popular items for grooming products for women include epilators, facial trimmers, callus removers, hair straighteners, stylers, crimpers, and facial cleansers, among other products. Paytm Mall Senior Vice-President Srinivas Mothey said the lockdown has made people realise in metros as well as smaller cities that personal grooming products should always be kept handy. "We think the demand for these products is set to rise further over the next few weeks and after that, it would remain consistently high. We believe this trend is here to stay and these products are set to be part of household essentials going forward," Mothey said. Paytm Mall said more people in tier-II, tier-III, and other towns are now opening up to the idea of buying personal grooming gadgets and products online. "Cities such as Kanpur, Nagpur, Surat, Guwahati, and Cochin, which traditionally did not witness major traction on personal care products are buying almost as much as metro cities. Not only trimmers, electric shavers, epilators demand for niche personal care products such as face mist, beard oil, hair tonic, anti-aging creams from high-end brands have all gone up," the statement said. PRS HRS

Shut salons drive demand for grooming products by 50 pc: Paytm Mall

New Delhi, May 11 () Demand for electronic products, specially mobile devices and accessories, has surged around 1.5 times on Paytm Mall after the government allowed online sales in orange and green zones, the e-commerce company said on Monday. Overall, the demand for products in non-essential categories has grown two-folds compared to March sales after the government allowed sales in orange and green through e-commerce firms from May 4 onwards, it said. Paytm Mall said it saw a steady increase in demand and sales of headphones, speakers, mobile &amp; laptop accessories, home items. "There has been an overall 1.5 times increase in demand for consumer electronics including headphones like Bluetooth. With India working and studying from home, the demand for headphones, laptop &amp; mobile accessories, keyboards, data cables, memory sticks, has also gone up," the company said in a statement. The company witnessed a surge in searches and the sale of mobiles, masks, and trimmers and expect these categories will see strong sales once more relaxations in red zones come and the trend seems to remain strong over the next few weeks. Paytm Mall senior vice president Srinivas Mothey said that people are buying products that cater to the change in their lifestyle caused by this prolonged stay at home. Paytm Mall has also seen some surprising trends emerging in the last one week which is a surge in demand for popular board games including ludo, chess, monopoly, scrabble, and risk. PRS MRMR

Paytm Mall records 1.5 times demand in electronics, mobile phones

<ul><li>In an interview with Business Insider, <keyword id="323682" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rudra-Dalmia">Rudra Dalmia</keyword>, Executive Director, <keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword> shares the aggressive growth plans <keyword id="6357120" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="paytm">Paytm</keyword> Mall has. </li><li>In July, American e-commerce giant eBay had bought a 5.5% stake in Paytm Mall. </li><li>The company is already contribution margin positive and is aiming for net profitability. </li></ul>Paytm Mall is headed to new shores – Middle East, thanks to its latest investor – e-commerce giant eBay. American e-commerce giant eBay had bought a 5.5% stake in Paytm Mall, <keyword id="198636" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vijay-Shekhar-Sharma">Vijay Shekhar Sharma</keyword>’s new e-commerce vertical in July. “We are going to build a very large Gulf business and export is going to be a big thing for us. Currently, we are testing the partnership with Ebay, who will expose our Indian catalogue there,” said Rudra Dalmia, Executive Director, Paytm Mall in an interview with Business Insider. Through eBay’s investment, Paytm Mall will also make eBay’s entire catalogue available to Indian users. The company ended the last financial year with a Gross Merchandising Value (GMV) of ₹130 billion and is now aiming for ₹170 billion GMV by 2022. It also cut it costs by 85-90% every month. “We are already make a margin positive contribution. Now we don’t sell anything, where we lose money. The aim is to now achieve net profit which will take a few years,” said Dalmia. Hard decisions It was a cold December morning, when the newly joined Dalmia had a meeting with Vijay Shekhar Sharma, who said “this is not working”. That’s when Paytm Mall changed the way it worked to become an O2O model led business. With this, Paytm Mall now drives its online traffic to offline stores through gift vouchers, offers and uses offline strength to push online traffic through digital payments only. “We took some hard decisions and decided to focus on the bottom line. We cut all unnecessary costs with an aim to be contribution/revenue positive. So, we turned the focus on paytm’s strengths – merchants and huge user base,” said Dalmia. It plans to piggyback on the success of Paytm, whose monthly transactions are as much as 400 million transactions, to drive demand. Better business, not a bigger business Today, Paytm Mall is a ‘for, by and of the merchants’ platform. While e-commerce still has a 40% role, O2O now takes up the 60% chunk of its business. “We want to be a better business, not a bigger business. Paytm already has over 13 million merchants onboarded. And there’s a lot of trust. One of the biggest achievements of Vijay has been to convince people that Paytm money is real money,” said Dalmia. This is good news for the company, as its prospects did not look very good a while back and reports said that it might close down. Yet its fortunes changed by May 2019 as the company said that it grew by 200% in six months, and hired 200 people. And they are still hiring aggressively across roles, informs Dalmia. “In hyper growth companies, you grow, you consolidate and then you turn profitable. We are currently consolidating and we will show how it is done,” said Dalmia.

‘We will show how it’s done’ – Paytm Mall heads to the Middle East, with a push from eBay

<ul><li><keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword>, the e-commerce subsidiary of One97 communications which owns <keyword id="6357120" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="paytm">Paytm</keyword>, inked a partnership with Apple. </li><li>All <keyword id="115736" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Apple-products">Apple products</keyword> listed on the e-commerce website will have an authorized tag. </li><li>This will offer consumers a fair and better price, believes Paytm Mall.</li></ul>Paytm Mall inked a partnership with Apple to sell its latest products in India. With this partnership, all Apple products listed on the e-commerce website will have an authorized tag, and is a mark of genuine product. Meanwhile, Apple will list Paytm Mall as an authorized reseller for its products in India. So, an independent seller too will have to get authorization from Apple, before listing itself on Paytm Mall. “Paytm Mall is one of India’s leading seller of premium mobile phones, and adding Apple’s range will further strengthen our list of offering to our customers. Our customers will also be eligible to avail offers such as additional discounts on select credit cards and cashbacks. All the latest Apple products will be available on our platform and will come with a valid standard Apple warranty,” said Srinivas Mothey, Sr. Vice President at Paytm Mall. Paytm Mall has been upping its ante in the heavily competitive e-commerce ecosystem of the country. Given the craze for Apple products in India, this partnership could work in its favour. Paytm Mall is the e-commerce subsidiary of One97 communications which owns Paytm. It is aiming to turn profitable in the next two years. The company said that it reduced its monthly spends by ₹400 million, is targeting an EBITDA breakeven by 2021-22. EBIDTA is earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and amortization. The company ended the last financial year with a Gross Merchandising Value (GMV) of ₹130 billion and is now aiming for ₹170 billion GMV by 2022.

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<ul><li><keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> hit 344 million visits, <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword> and Myntra combined had 314 million visits in September.</li><li><keyword id="541988" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="SnapDeal">Snapdeal</keyword> had 87 million visits in the same month.</li><li>Clubfactory, <keyword id="6357066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shopclues">Shopclues</keyword>, Tata Cliq and <keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword> followed in the list.</li></ul>It comes as no surprise that Indian e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart managed to get a lion’s share of traffic in September. But what is unbelievable is the vast margin they managed to achieve, setting them apart in a crowded e-commerce market. Amazon received 344 million hits while Flipkart and Myntra combined got 314 million visits in September. The third highest number of shoppers came to Snapdeal which got 87 million visits in the same month, according to a SimilarWeb report. Amazon and Flipkart individually had over twice the number of visits than that of Snapdeal, Club Factory, Shopclues, Tata Cliq and Paytm Mall combined, showed the data from the report. 
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 On an interesting note, Snapdeal scripted a comeback story as its numbers grew to current 87 million from 27 million visits in October 2017. “The growing volumes on Snapdeal are built on a sound and granular understanding of the importance of value in Bharat-focused e-commerce. Our ability to build scale along with favorable unit economics gives Snapdeal an immense competitive advantage,” said Kunal Bahl, CEO &amp; Co-founder, Snapdeal in a statement. Meanwhile, Amazon and Flipkart rode on the festive sale discounts that started in September. Flipkart’s Big Billion Day sale too started towards the end of September.

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