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Flipkart to adopt app-based format by end of 2016

Tuesday 21 April 2015 11:43 CET | News

Flipkart, an Indian retailer, will adopt the app-only format within by the end of 2016.

In April 2015, Myntra and Flipkart shut down their mobile websites to push mobiles apps for shopping, iamwire.com reports. Michael Adnani, vice-president, retail and head of brand alliances, Flipkart said that, in 2014, 6% of the companys traffic was coming from mobile. In less than 18 months, that traffic grew to 60%.

Flipkart has more than 40 million registered users and around 30,000 merchants selling over 20 million products on the platform. Flipkart does about 8 million shipments a month, and two-thirds of its online traffic comes from users in small citie s and towns.


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