Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, added a new fulfillment center in West Bengal, the second-largest in the state, as it ramps up its supply chain infrastructure in the East to cater to the growing demand for e-commerce services across the region and the country. Spread across an area of over 2.2-lakh square feet and creating nearly 3,500 direct jobs, the new facility in Dankuni will cater to the needs of both Flipkart and Myntra customers in the region.
It will also help thousands of sellers offer a wider selection and enable faster deliveries of customer orders within the region and neighbouring states while also helping create national market access. The new fulfilment centre (FC) will augment Flipkart’s capabilities to cater to more consumers, including millions of first-time e-commerce users in the East.
With the addition of this new facility in Dankuni, Flipkart now has more than 10-lakh square feet of warehousing space in the state alone and employs over 50,000 people across all these facilities. Flipkart has 7 Fulfilment Centres in West Bengal and the Flipkart group has created about 50,000 jobs in the state. Flipkart has a partnership with Biswa Bangla, a Government entity from West Bengal to showcase the traditional Bengali handicrafts, fabrics and artifacts on Flipkart Samarth.
