Economic Reporter :
The country’s electronics company Walton is going to secure the apex position in e-commerce business of the country’s household appliances as the local brand is selling out around taka half a crore worth of goods through its on-line site each month, says a press release.
Most probably, there is no other single brand that is selling such amount of goods through on-line in a month, the authority claimed.
In October last year, Walton has launched the experimental operation of e-commerce site, which was inaugurated by Sate Minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak at Walton Hi-Tech Industries at Chandra in Gazipur. E-commerce service was opened for customers from November last year. Since then, the sales of Walton products have been in an upward trend.
Razib Ahmed, president of E-commerce Association of Bangladesh (E-cab), said the e-commerce business is booming in Bangladesh. Although there is no perfect statistics, the number of e-commerce sites in Bangladesh may be about one thousand, he noted.
As a single brand, Walton is marking a good sing in e-commerce business in a short time, he said adding, there are also some other brands like Arong, Food Panda, Pran and Nitol are also experiencing sound business in e-commerce.
