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Handloom department has tied up with nine leading e-commerce entities including Flipkart, Amazon and eBay to increase sale of handloom mark products’ penetration in the domestic market as there is a huge potential but the problem is branding and reach. With the same end it has also tied up with 70 retail outlets, said the handlooms commissioner under the Union ministry of textiles.

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Raghuvir Group is among Ahmedabad's top three private sector textile houses. The interests of the Group range from Textile, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Warehousing. Raghuvir Group plans to double its garments and home textile capacities for which it will make an investment of Rs 10 crore.

The investment will take its garments and home textiles capacities to 2 million units and 2 million sets, respectively, to support its subsidiary Raghuvir Lifestyle's foray into offline retail.

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Government units, especially textiles as one of their major brand building exercise and with India high on digitalization are tying up with ecommerce platforms to get a wider customer base globally. Many weaves from different states will now be made available on ecommerce platforms like Flipkart, eBay, Amazon, Snapdeal and others.

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The Union Government which is keen to promote cotton fibre and handloom products is lent a helping hand by the online retailers viz. Flipkart,Amazon,Snapdeal.

The Andhra Pradesh Government is holding discussions with these plugged-in retailers to sell handloom products on their website.

This will help in introducing an online platform to the workmanship of the handloom weavers as well as recognition to the ancient tradition, which is one of the prime reasons of the Union Government backing these weavers.

Related Keywords: apparel, artifacts, clothing, ecommerce market place, educate and empower sellers, Flipkart, handicraft products, handloom, home decor, west Bengal region

Flipkart, an e-commerce market place is aiming to ramp up the number of categories of items for sale and connect with more vendors from different parts of the country. The company has set a target to have one lakh sellers hawking their products on its portal.

This year, handloom, home and local artifacts will emerge as prominent categories. They are confident that they will see more sellers from these categories to join them and reach out to a wider range of customers nationally, Flipkart Senior Vice president (market place) Ankit Nagori said.

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Flipkart, an E-commerce major, through its platform aims to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to generate business worth Rs 10 lakh (a million) this year. In fact, to encourage and enable sellers grow and expand their businesses, Flipkart are offering various initiatives/support like - workshops/sessions, SME training programs, working capital assistance, marketing support services like packaging, cataloging to sellers and through Investments in building a technology platform.

Handloom, handicrafts and local artifacts have emerged as prominent categories on their platform.

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Nagpur, due to its geographic location as the centre of the country, is capable of being a large logistic hub and surely to bring in huge employment opportunities to Vidarbha. The long-awaited development process of Vidarbha has kick-started with Devendra Fadnavis becoming the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Devendra Fadnavis addressing youngsters on Saturday during the Youth Empowerment Summit announced that the government is in talks with Flipkart an e-commerce giants to set up an e-commerce logistic hub in Nagpur.

Related Keywords: Banarsi Saree, DC handlooms, e-commerce, Flipkart, Ministry of Textiles, Shopping Online, Varanasi, Weavers

Flipkart, e-commerce portal in association with DC handlooms, Ministry of Textiles has decided to launch of an exclusive online store for Banarasi sarees. This store will focus on creating a national platform for the weavers to showcase their unique craftsmanship.

Related Keywords: Benarsi saree, Flipkart, Indian fashion designers, textile clusters, Textile Ministry, Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar

India’s ace fashion designers in a meet with, Union textile minister, Santosh Gangwar are willing to lend their whole-hearted support to the government in setting-up robust design centres in the cluster area, and getting local artisans on board to deliver the product as per the designs.

The meet was focused on the need to give a boost to various textile clusters spread out across India. The designers are ready to extend their helping hand to traditional Indian textiles and handicrafts.

Related Keywords: artisans, Bandhanis, brand name, Flipkart, for handicrafts and handloom, Garvi Gurjari, generat revenue, GSHHDC, Gujarat State, hand-blocked printing, online shopping portals, Snapdeal, strike deals

Gujarat will be the first state to strike deals with commercial online portals to encourage its handicrafts. As the Gujarat State Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation (GSHHDC) are in advanced stage of entering into an agreements with Flipkart and Snapdeal.

Gujarat handloom and handicrafts like Patolas, Bandhanis, hand-blocked printing and variety of products from the desert district of Kutch under the brand name Garvi Gurjari will be sold online.