Flipkart sells 150 mn products online till August

Bengaluru, Aug 10: Leading e-retail major Flipkart on Monday said it has sold 150 million products till date this calendar year, registering a whopping 150 percent growth over last year. "We have witnessed a 150 percent growth in the number of products (units) sold as compared to 2014," the city-based company said in a statement here. Though the company has not mentioned the comparative growth period in the statement, its spokesman told IANS that the sales figure (units sold) was for the "first eight months till date of this calendar year". "Fashion, lifestyle, home and consumer electronics were among top selling categories, while Bengaluru, New Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Coimbatore and Ahmedabad were top cities in terms of traffic," the statement added. The eight-year-old e-commerce player offers about 30 million products across 70 categories, including books, media, consumer electronics and lifestyle to its 45 million registered users.