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| An Amazon fulfilment centre in the UK. The firm is setting up a centre in India in an attempt to break its £353bn retail market. |
Fulfilment centres are big warehouses that facilitate Amazon and different on-line retailers store product, ship them and handle returns quickly.
The fulfilment centre is predicated in Mumbai, the largest town within the country, in line with job listings on Amazon's Indian careers web site.
Amazon "has an instantaneous gap for an IT manager in our initial fulfilment centre based mostly out in Mumbai, India," one recent listing said.
Another recent Amazon job posting sought a "stations operations manager" to figure for the fulfilment centre team in Mumbai.
Amazon was conjointly recently yearning for a monetary analyst in Mumbai to report back to a general manager and controller and facilitate the fulfilment centre operate additional efficiently and predictably.
The company spent heavily last year fixing over ten new fulfilment centres within the us. the corporate conjointly lists centres in China, Germany, Japan and also the UK on its web site, however currently lists none in India.
Fulfilment centres price plenty to line up, thus Amazon's efforts to begin one in India signal that the corporate is serious regarding getting in the country's $550bn (£353bn) retail market.
"While it's been speculated that Amazon would be expanding internationally, it looks that the international enlargement plans are accelerating," said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Macquarie. "Last year, they launched a country-specific web site in Spain and currently it's like India may be next."
An Amazon spokeswoman failed to answer emails seeking discuss the company's plans for India.
Amazon has software development centres in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad and a customer-service centre in Hyderabad.
Shoppers in India can even obtain product from Amazon websites in different countries and have the things shipped to them, however the corporate doesn't have an avid on-line retail business in India however, permitting e-commerce start-ups, led by Flipkart, to expand quickly.
"India could be a tremendously giant potential marketplace for Amazon," said Mahesh Murthy, a venture capital investor in India and founding father of digital promoting start-up Pinstorm.
"In fact, from the metrics we have a tendency to see, Amazon currently gets additional traffic from India than Flipkart will, despite the fact that the previous has no formal presence in India," he added.
Amazon already will plenty of business in India through its UK web site, amazon.co.uk, as a result of the corporate offers free shipping and handles customs for all books, music and DVDs bought from that web site and shipped to India, Murthy said.
"But this {could} be considerably smaller than what Amazon could do if it came with a full providing into India," he added.
