Indian retail market would have a size of $1 trillion by 2020, said India director for e-commerce and local classified, Nitin Bawankule, on Thursday.
“So, even if e-commerce is three to four per cent of that, e-commerce itself would be $30-40 billion.”
Bawankule said there was a five fold increase in query on ‘shopping’ in October and Google was getting half of these from beyond six metro cities.
Indian e-commerce has been in the news constantly for the fund-raising spree by companies in the sector.
Snapdeal has raised $627 million from Japan’s Softbank Corporation which was preceded by $ 1 billion fund raising by Flipkart. Amazon committed investment of $ 2 billion in India.
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