Amazon invests in Telangana and empowers SMBs

HYDERABAD, INDIA: Amazon Seller Services Pvt Ltd has announced fresh investments in the state of Telangana with the opening of a Fulfilment Centre (FC), spread over 2,80,000 square feet near Kottur, on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

The FC will be operational from May 2015. This is the largest investment in infrastructure in any single state, to date, by Amazon in India. The FC will allow Amazon.in to offer its Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) service to thousands of small and medium businesses in the state and empower them to gain access to and service customers across the country at significantly low operating costs. It will also enable faster and quicker delivery of products to amazon.in customers in the region.

With the opening of the new FC in Telangana, Amazon will have 11 FC’s operational across nine states in India covering a total of over one million square feet space with a storage capacity of over 2.5 million cubic feet.

Welcoming the investments in the state, the Chief Minister , K. Chandrashekar Rao said, "We are very excited that Amazon has decided to invest their biggest Warehouse in Telangana. We have passed the TS iPass bill in our Assembly that ensures self-certification and deemed approval of all clearances within 3 weeks of application for any Mega Project. For Amazon, we have given all clearances in 11 days, well within the guaranteed time. We are making all efforts to make Telangana an investor friendly state."

ASSPL also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Telangana State Government to train thousands of sellers across the state in ecommerce and take advantage of the digital economy. Under the MOU, Amazon India will offer trainings to SMEs through seminars, workshops, video aids and ready reckoners on how to list & manage inventory for an ecommerce business.