Top 10 Shopping (eCommerce) Sites in India

1. Amazon.in
         This is an American eCommerce company is an with headquarter in Washington. It is the largest eCommerce site in the world as having its franchisees all over the world. It was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 in USA and soon it spreaded its legs into all continent of the earth. Initially started with online book store but soon started selling digital and electronics items and now a days almost all types of material can be bought from this site from anywhere in the world. It also produces consumer electronics like Amazon Kindle e-book reader, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phones. 
             Its also the biggest cloud computing service provider with name of Amazon EC2 and many mores. Its has its separate websites for all countries like in India you can visit amazon.in.
   Subsidiaries : 
   
   2004:  A9.com, a company focused on researching and building innovative technology.2004: Lab126, developers of integrated consumer electronics such as the Kindle.2007: Endless.com, an e-commerce brand focusing on shoes.2007: Brilliance Audio, the largest independent audiobook producer in the US.
   Amazon owns over 40 subsidiaries, including Zappos, Diapers.com, Kiva Systems, Goodreads, Teachstreet, and IMDb.
2. Snapdeal.com:
           Snapdeal.com is also a Market Place for eRetail business and is of a type Private. It was established by Kunal Bahl in 2010 with its headquarter in New Delhi, India. The CEO Kunal Bahl, a Whartongraduate as part of the dual degree M&T Engineering and Business program at Penn, and Rohit Bansal, is an alumnus of IIT Delhi.
               About more that 2000 people are employed at this market place to carry out the daily load of shoppers to deliver the goods on time to keep the commitment.
               In this little time span of 5 years, this company has acquired more than 10 subsidiaries along with some big names as below.
            1.  Grabbon.com         2. esportsbuy.com
            3. Shopo.in
            4. Doozton.com
            5. Wishpicker.com
            6. Smartprix.com
            7.  Exclusively.in
            8. Gojavas.com         9. FreeCharge.com
   The recently acquired subsidiary is FreeCharge.com a Mobile Payment Company in about 2400 Crore INR.
3. Flipkart.com
              Flipkart, is an E-Commerce company and was established by Sachin Bansal and Ninny Bansal in 2007. Though it is registered in Singapore, but its headquarters are at Bangalore, karnataka (India).  Flipkart has launched its own product range under the name "DigiFlip" with products including tablets, USBs, and laptop bags.                    In May 2014, Flipkart received $210 million from DST Global and in July it raised $1 billion led by existing investors Tiger Global and South Africa's media group Naspers. Flipkart's last fundraising round in December had pegged its valuation at $12 billion.
               Its is the largest eCommerce market place in India and fastest growing eCommerce plateform. It has acquired around six companies in last few years along with some big names like letsbuy.com and Myntra.com. Myntra.com was acquired in around 2000 crore rupees in year 2014. 
   
   Awards:-
   - Co-Founder of Flipkart Sachin Bansal, got Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012-2013 from Economic Times, leading Indian Economic Daily.- Flipkart.com was awarded Young Turk of the Year at CNBC TV 18's 'India Business Leader Awards 2012' (IBLA).- Flipkart.com- got Nominated for IndiaMART Leaders of Tomorrow Awards 2011.
4. Homeshop18.com
   
             HomeShop18 is an online and on-air retail and distribution venture of Network 18 Group, India. HomeShop18 was launched on April 2008 as India's first 24-hour Home Shopping TV channel, where anchors performed live demonstration of products on sale similar to HSN or QVC in USA.
             The television channel established HomeShop18's foothold in Indian retail because of high television penetration. Later, as the internet reach grew all over the country, HomeShop18 launched www.homeshop18.com which was ranked as the No. 5 most trafficked Ecommerce portal in India by Comscore in July 2013.
            
5. ebay.in
   
              eBay Inc. is a multinational corporation of Amreca and e-commerce company, providing consumer to consumer & business to consumer sales services over Internet. It was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and headquarter was selected as San Jose, California, USA.  It has become a Multi-Billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries.
   
              The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. In addition to its auction-style sales, the website has since expanded to include "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via PayPal)^[7] and other services.
   
   
6. Jabong.com
          Jabong.com is an Indian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce portal, selling apparel, footwear, fashion accessories, beauty products, fragrances, home accessories and other fashion and lifestyle products. 
             Jabong was co-founded by Arun Chandra Mohan, Praveen Sinha, and Lakshmi Potluri after which Manu Jain, and Mukul Bafana in 2012. Joined the organization later one.  The company is headquartered in Gurgaon, NCR. The site started operations in January 2012. It was co-founded .
   
            The managing officers are Arun Chandra Mohan and Praveen Sinha. In March 2013, Jabong was shipping 6000-7000 orders a day.  According to the The Economist, Jabong clocked gross sales of around US $100–150 mn in 2012.  As per the Livemint article, during September 2013 Jabong was shipping 14,000 orders on a daily basis out of which 60% were from small towns.
             Jabong was one of the most visited e-commerce sites during the Great Online Shopping Festival 2013. Company representatives claimed that its revenues increased five to six times compared to a usual day, and that Jabong set a record for sale in the male fashion category. In 2014, Manu Jain left Jabong and joined Xiaomi India.
7. Myntra.com
          Myntra.com is an Indian e-commerce company of fashion and casual lifestyle products. It was founded by IITians Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania and Vineet Saxena with its headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka in year 2007. Its focus was on personalisation of gift items. By 2010, Myntra shifted its focus to the online retailing of branded apparel.
             In May 2014, Myntra.com merged with Flipkart to competea against Amazon which entered the Indian market in June 2013.
            It was in the business of on-demand personalisation of gift items. It mainly operated on the B2B (business to business) model during its initial years. Between 2007 and 2010, the online portal allowed customers to personalize products such as T-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, calendars, watches, teddy bears, pendants, wine glasses and jigsaw puzzles. Myntra provided home delivery within 3 days time.
   Within the initial 3 years, Myntra became India’s largest personalisation platform with more than 50% of the market share.
   In 2011, Myntra expanded its catalogue to include fashion and lifestyle products and moved away from personalisation. Myntra tied up with various popular brands to retail a wide range of latest merchandise from these brands. Myntra offered products from 350 Indian and International brands by 2012. Myntra also had casual wear for men and women from brands. The website saw the launch of Fastrack watches and of Being Human, the brand. 
   Myntra currently has more than 1000 brands with over 1,50,000 products that are delivered to around 9000 pincodes in India through its vast and efficient delivery network.
   
8. Shopclues.com            ShopClues.com is an Indian online marketplace, headquartered in Gurgaon, India. The company was founded in the Silicon Valley, USA in 2011.  It has over 12,000 registered merchants retail +2,00,000 products on the platform to over 42 million visitors every year across 9500 locations in the country.
   ShopClues joined as 35th entrant in the Indian e-commerce in 2011. The company employees over 350 people across locations.
9. Pepperfry.com
             Pepperfry.com is one of the India’s leading furniture and home products e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Mumbai. A managed marketplace, Pepperfry is known for its differentiated product range which offers over 75,000+ products across categories like Furniture, Home Décor, Kitchen & Dining, etc.             Pepperfry.com was launched on January 3, 2012 by Ambareesh Murty (former eBay Country Manager) and Ashish Shah (former head of eBay Motors-India and Philippines). Post their association with eBay India in leadership positions, they decided to set up their own company. Pepperfry initially offered a selection of products across multiple lifestyle categories. However, since 2013, the company decided to focus on furniture and home decor sourced from SMEs, artisans and large brands in multiple cities across India.
   In a little over two-and-a-half years of operations, Pepperfry has achieved an important milestone by delivering its 100,000th furniture piece.
            
10. Naaptol.com
            Naaptol is a home shopping company based in India that sells various products in categories ranging from apparel,mobile phones, consumer electronics, home furnishings, kitchen appliances, furniture, etc. It is an alternate retail platform that is present across various forms of media to cater to a wide audience across the country. The company has its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
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11. Groupon
12. Zovi.com
13. Firstcry.com
14. Shopping.indiatimes.com
15. Futurebazaar.com
16. Koovs.com
17. Bestylish.com
18. Zoomin.com
19. Rediff Shopping
20. Askme.com
21. Paytm.com
22. Freecharge.com
23. Oxigen.com
24. Goibibo.com