Thu, May 10, 2018
India's very own whizkids, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal have turned billionaires after selling their stake in India's top e-retailer Flipkart to US retail giant Walmart in a transaction dubbed as world's largest e-commerce deal valued at $16 bn.
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Walmart Inc. might want to portray its $16 billion purchase of India's largest e-commerce firm, Flipkart Group, as a brilliant strategic move, but the truth is that the deal represents a second-best outcome- if that for Walmart as well as for Indian consumers and farmers.
Taking some risks, the 46-year-old former hedge-fund manager fired senior managers, set more-aggressive sales targets, boosted spending on promotions and promised to dominate India’s festival-season shopping. His strategy worked, and we can see the return in the mega deal. In India, online shopping is projected by Morgan Stanley to reach $200 billion within the next decade, compared with $30 billion now.
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