Flipkart opens four new fulfilment & sortation centres in Haryana

10 Sep '21

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Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace platform, has announced the expansion of its supply chain network in Haryana with the addition of four new facilities to support thousands of sellers from the state ahead of the upcoming festive season. The expansion will further help in providing quality products, helping contribute to the economic growth.

The new fulfilment centres will help create deeper capabilities to support thousands of sellers, MSMEs, Kiranas, and small farmers from the state to cater to the growing customer demand, create more employment opportunities while enabling faster deliveries for consumers. The new facilities will serve sellers of large appliances, furniture, mobiles, apparel and electronics and are located in Sankpa, Yakubpur, Kulana, and Rewari with a total area of more than 12 lakh square feet and a storage capacity of over 30 lakh cubic feet, according to a press release by Flipkart.

More than 13,000 sellers from the state will get augmented support to reach lakhs of new customers nationally and create additional 12,000 direct and indirect jobs in the state, thereby strengthening the state economy. With the region witnessing robust demand for e-commerce services, the addition of new facilities will also augment Flipkart’s capabilities to bring the goodness of e-commerce to thousands of sellers from the state and to millions of first-time e-commerce customers across the country.

“Haryana has been at the forefront of promoting the digital way of commerce and has introduced numerous initiatives including a single-window system to provide for speedy implementation of industrial and other projects. Digital commerce is providing new avenues and opportunities for lakhs of MSMEs, which forms a base of India's economic growth in a big way. I am confident that Flipkart’s continued investment in Haryana will further help thousands of small and medium enterprises from the state to expand their economic activity while also helping create thousands of additional jobs in the state,” Vikas Gupta director General Micro, small and medium enterprises, Government of Haryana said in a statement.

Haryana is an attractive investment destination in the country and Flipkart is committed to creating opportunities for sellers, MSMEs and artisans from the state while providing a seamless e-commerce experience to millions of customers from the state. With this expansion in the state, Flipkart now has a total of 17 fulfilment centres (FCs) in regions such as across Binola, Bilaspur, Luhari, Ballabgarh, and Farrukhnagar and spread across an area of 44 lakh square feet creating around 22,000 thousand direct and indirect job opportunities and new economic opportunities for growth.

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