Walmart India news and trends

Walmart Canada Provides Consumers Access To Indian Merchants
Retail // January 31, 2019

Walmart Canada is teaming up with Myntra, the Indian fashion eCommerce platform of Flipkart, to hook up consumers and merchants in Canada and India. According to a report in Chain Store Age, by connecting with Myntra Walmart Canada can connect customers in Canada with merchants...

Walmart India Enables Direct Payments On B2B eCommerce Site
B2B Payments // August 17, 2018

Walmart’s B2B eCommerce operations in India have enhanced business-to-business payments functionality as the retailer activated unified payments interface (UPI) for its members. Reports in the Times of India on Thursday (Aug. 16) said that Walmart India’s B2B eCommerce site, http://www.bestprice.in/, can now support direct online...

Walmart Seals The Deal With Flipkart For $16 Billion
Partnerships / Acquisitions // May 10, 2018

After much speculation – and a fair amount of “will they, won’t they” – it looks like the deal is done: Walmart will be the majority owner of Indian eCommerce up-and-comer Flipkart, with a 77 percent stake. All it will cost them is a cool $16 billion....

Walmart’s $15B Bid Secures Flipkart Buy Against Amazon
Retail // May 07, 2018

The race to win India’s eCommerce power player Flipkart is over and won by Walmart with a $15 billion bid on the firm. The deal will give Walmart of a majority stake in the firm, roughly 75 percent of the entire Flipkart group. The final outcome...

Quick Reads
Walmart Says PhonePe and Flipkart IPOs Years Away

June 09, 2024
Walmart’s India-based eCommerce marketplace and payments company aren’t quite ready to go public. “This is something we’re looking at over the next couple of years,” Walmart’s executive vice president for corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, told Reuters last week in reference to the company’s marketplace Flipkart and payments platform PhonePe. And while Flipkart has been around […]

Walmart Canada Provides Consumers Access To Indian Merchants

January 31, 2019
Walmart Canada is teaming up with Myntra, the Indian fashion eCommerce platform of Flipkart, to hook up consumers and merchants in Canada and India. According to a report in Chain...

Walmart Seals The Deal With Flipkart For $16 Billion

May 10, 2018
After much speculation – and a fair amount of “will they, won’t they” – it looks like the deal is done: Walmart will be the majority owner of Indian eCommerce up-and-comer...

Walmart’s $15B Bid Secures Flipkart Buy Against Amazon

May 07, 2018
The race to win India’s eCommerce power player Flipkart is over and won by Walmart with a $15 billion bid on the firm. The deal will give Walmart of a majority...