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Mobile retailers’ campaign ‘slanderous’, rues Xiaomi
India’s top Chinese mobile retailer Xiaomi has hit out at the domestic retailers’ body, AIMRA, calling the latter’s allegations of online bias as an “attempt to defame Mi India and its employees'' and said the association’s recent campaign against Chinese smartphone maker was “slanderous” and “libellous.” Read more...
150,000 mobile retailers urge PM Modi to probe Amazon's business practices in India
The report was based on internal Amazon documents dated between 2012 and 2019. "We were already aware of Amazon's thought process and strategy," the All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) wrote in the letter. Read more...
Indian mobile retailers' body slams Amazon, phone vendors
All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stressing that Amazon's operations in India should be suspended until a probe into the company is done. Read more...
Indian traders ask government to investigate Amazon, impose daily cap on smartphone sales
A group of Indian traders has asked the government to investigate Amazon's business practices in the country and impose a daily cap on a single seller's online smartphone sales. Read more...
Mainline smartphone retailers urge Piyush Goyal to set up body to monitor wrongdoing
Mainline smartphone retailers have reached out to the commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal urging him to set up a monitoring body to control the “unfair and unethical business practices by smartphone brands and online portals.” Read more...
Key highlights from Asmbhav: Retailers are now impatient with govt, call for them to intervene
A group of seller associations in India, including the All India Online Vendors Association (AIOVA), All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA), Federation of All India Distributors Associations (FAIDA), organised a discussion on Thursday about the dominance and of e-commerce giants in India, and their impact on retailers and traders. Read more...