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  • The website launches 7-Day Shopping Extravaganza to celebrate the 'Republic week offer' with huge discounts and gift offers

    HomeShop18 commemorates 63rd Republic Day Celebrations

    By A Correspondent

     

    HomeShop18 has launched a special 7-Day shopping extravaganza from January 24. It is an effort to celebrate Republic Day with the customers of HomeShop18. On offer are huge discounts and gifts to the brand loyal customers. It is an initiative to add excitement over the 63rd Republic Day celebrations. The promotions also ran on HomeShop18, the shopping channel, from January 24 to 26.

     

    HomesShop18 also offers ‘26 deals’ on multiple categories like apparels, appliances, cameras, computers, electronics, health, beauty, jewellery, mobiles and toys during the Republic Day week on all purchases made from the official website,  www.homeshop18.com.

     

    Shopaholics will benefit from heavy discounts, ranging from 69 per cent off on traditional clothing and 72 per cent off on jewellery and watches along with an 81 per cent off on health & beauty products.

     

    HomeShop18 has always endeavoured to offer customers world-class products and provide benefits that enable them to make the best use of on going offers. All these initiatives enable customers to shop at leisure from home during Republic Day.

     

    The Republic Day 2012 shopping extravaganza will offer an array of products including home appliances, jewellery, home decor, kitchen appliances, mobiles, digital cameras, laptops, apparel, furniture, gift items, bags and many more from world’s well known brands. The brand stores something valuable for everyone who shops from HomeShop18.

     

    In addition to the above offers, HomeShop18 is holding a Facebook Contest from January 25 to 27, where participants will get a chance to win three products from any category. Participants will have to answer two questions, one on Freedom and the other, a clue-based question. The customer has to search the answer (which will be a product from www.homeshop18.com). There will be a lucky draw of all the correct answers and winners get a chance to bag surprise gifts.

     

    HomeShop18 is Network18 group’s online and television retail marketing and distribution venture. It isIndia’s fastest growing e-commerce website. Adding a new customer every 6 seconds, HomeShop18’s robust distribution set-up helps it reach out to over 3000 locations in the country.

  • Smartphones shipments touch 7.9 million units in first nine months, growing from 2.3 million in 1Q 2011 to over 3 million in 3Q 2011

    Nokia leads at 30% of cellphone sales, Samsung at #2

    By A Correspondent

     

    The overall Indian  mobile handsets market recorded aggregated shipments of 47 million units during the second quarter in 2011, registering a 12.5% sequential growth on account of large number of new launches and higher than usual shipments by vendors, as reported in the  India  Monthly Mobile Handsets Market Review. The review was released on Wednesday by CyberMedia Research.

     

    The total mobile handset shipments during the first nine months of 2011 touched 135 million units, as the market first dipped during the first quarter and then recovered in the second.

     

    (%) by Device Type: July-August-September 2011*

    Monthly mobile handset shipments (millions of units) and Growth Trends (%) by Device Type

     

    August-September 2011*

    Number of New Models Launched in July-August-September 2011

     

    In the overall Indian mobile market, Nokia retained leadership position with 30% share in terms of sales, followed by Samsung at second position with 11.6%, during September 2011.

     

    On average the proportion of dual-SIM and multi-SIM handsets were 55.8% of total mobile handset shipments in the second quarter. Nokia, a late entrant to the multi-SIM device category, made up by having as many as five models on offer by September 2011.

     

    Smartphone shipments touched 7.9 million units in first nine months. During the month of September, smartphones sales crossed 1 million units.

     

    “Smartphones are witnessing an increased adoption in the Indian market; not only amongst business executives but also among the youth as such devices offer superior usability, entertainment and functional capabilities”, said Naveen Mishra, lead analyst, CyberMedia Research Telecoms Practice.

     

    “In the coming months the India smartphones market is expected to become even more crowded as more vendors, particularly those from India  and China, look to add these devices to their portfolio”, added Tarun Pathak, analyst, CyberMedia Research Telecoms Practice.