1. State of the E-Commerce
Industry in India
A study on the Current Trends, Domain Insights,
Success Criteria & Investment Opportunities
Abhishek Mathur
8/24/2011
Given the MakeMyTrip & JustDial IPO’s, Interest in Consumer Driven Ecommerce has increased both
from Investors and Entrepreneurs. At the same time reports of Accounting Harakiri & Amazon’s
announced Entry have cast a doubt on the monetization capabilities. This report studies Ecommerce in
India and attempts to draw parallels within Sectors and Geographies to identify Investment
opportunities

2. Table of Contents
Investment Hypothesis ............................................................................................................... 3
Measuring E-Commerce Success .............................................................................................. 4
Ecommerce Verticals ................................................................................................................. 4
Demographic Trends.................................................................................................................. 5
Market Size ................................................................................................................................ 6
Financial Analysis ...................................................................................................................... 6
The Three Facets of Ecommerce ............................................................................................... 7
Customer Facing .................................................................................................................... 7
Supply Networks .................................................................................................................... 7
1. Books, Electronics & Apparel ....................................................................................... 7
2. Travel Ticketing ........................................................................................................... 8
3. Hotel Booking .............................................................................................................. 8
4. Deals ........................................................................................................................... 8
Delivery Channels .................................................................................................................. 8
1. Inventory Management, Warehousing, Packaging and Shipping:................................. 8
2. Couriers and Last mile delivery channels: .................................................................... 8
Key Growth Drivers ...................................................................................................................10
Key Challenges / Barriers .........................................................................................................10
Online Usage Behavior trends & Key Opportunities ..................................................................11
Major Investments in the industry ..............................................................................................11
Success stories / Important Exits ..............................................................................................12
MakeMyTrip...........................................................................................................................12
Justdial ..................................................................................................................................12
Yatra .....................................................................................................................................12
Regulatory Advantage & legal frameworks................................................................................13
Appendix 1: Evolution of an ECommerce Startup / ECommerce Org Chart ...............................14
Appendix 2: Fundamental Analysis of Global Ecommerce Players............................................15
Appendix 3: Revenue Growth Projections .................................................................................16
Appendix 4: Current Revenue Projections.................................................................................17
Appendix 5: List of Ecommerce players by category .................................................................17

3. Investment Hypothesis
India, in the last decade has seen rapidly
increasing disposable incomes leading to
increasing demand for branded goods.
However, traditional retail channels are
encumbered by inefficient distribution
networks which can be optimized further
through cutting edge technology enabled
platforms.
Source: Vizisense
The last 2-3 years have seen a rapid growth in Internet/Mobile as a channel for Retail Sales.
This has led to a widespread belief that the Ecommerce platform has come of age in India and
will leapfrog organized retail as the primary retail channel. Political will has been against
supplanting traditional Middlemen. A fact which hampers organized direct to consumer retail
and strengthens the case for ECommerce
A closer look at 2011 data, demonstrates that
primary drivers for increased Ecommerce
usage have been Services (Deals, Ticketing,
etc...), whereas Products (Books, Electronics,
and Apparel) have been stagnant.
Macro Trends are extremely positive.
The current real Revenues of the Ecommerce
market is estimated at $1B, which is
considerably lesser than China ($ 70B) and other comparable economies. Active Internet Source: Vizisense
user base of 70-80 Million users is roughly 10% of the Mobile user base (700 Million).
People from 3300 distinct locations made online transactions in 2010, indicating mass appeal.
Valuations (See Section Financial Analysis) are high even by global standards (See Appendix 2:
Fundamental Analysis of Global Ecommerce Players). However this report attempts to identify
niches within the Apparel and Deals Categories which present opportunities to invest in. Group
Deals are doing very well globally with Groupon, LivingSocial, etc... Claiming 25% SME
marketing budget in the US. Given the unorganized and technologically challenged service
sector in India the scope for growth is even higher. JustDial (catering to a similar audience) has
proven a strong need for such Aggregators. Apparel (branded and unbranded) is interesting
because latest technologies around Augmented Reality, Flexible return policies, Cash On
delivery and Deep discounts will lead to explosive growth in this category. Additionally, margins
available in this space (25% - 200%), lend themselves very well to a quality offering and
fantastic customer experience. (http://vizisense.com/html/press/newAgeShopaholics.html)

4. Measuring E-Commerce Success
As per current trends none of the Ecommerce players will operationally break even before
2014. The question then is how to differentiate the winners from the laggards. Based on expert
opinion the following may be used as surrogate success criteria
a. Transactions per Day An Ecommerce player which can consistently grow and cross 5000
Tx/day by 2012 will be well poised to succeed in the long term
b. Customer Acquisition cost. A consistent linear reduction in Acquisition cost
demonstrates Customer satisfaction and repeat purchase. This would be essential to
scale
c. Team A Company which can hire and retain top level vertical specific domain experts
will naturally scale well.
d. Gross Merchandise Volumes Growth in GMV is a good sign; however this needs to be
tracked in conjunction with changes in Unit Profitability
Ecommerce Verticals
Ecommerce in India Can be divided into 21 broad verticals (See Appendix 5: List of Ecommerce
players by category). The Top 4 comprise Travel, Books/Electronics/DVD’s, Apparel and Deals.
The rest include Gifts, cakes, Custom memorabilia, Sweets and bakery items, Artwork auction,
Baby Care, Movie ticket booking, Airlines portals, Horizontal Players, Movie Rentals, Footwear,
Jewellery, Lingerie Straps and Strings, Sports, Health, Fitness, Beauty, Wellness, Perfumes,
Groceries, Vegetables, Fruits

5. Demographic Trends
Across verticals
1. 15-24 age group gets 40% traffic. Early adoption amongst this Age group which will lead
consumption in the coming decade is a good sign.
2. Low –Middle Income earners dominate
3. City wise traffic is Maximum from Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore. About 40% traffic is
outside metro and tier 1 cites.
4. Primary customers are Young Graduate Adults.
Vertical Specific
Vertical Unique Annual All Time Sites Considered
Users / Growth India Spent/Visit
Day Reach (Minutes)
Travel 150,000 100% 4% 8 Makemytrip.com,
Cleartrip.com, Yatra.com,
Tripadvisor.in
Books 40,000 80% 1.5% 7 Flipkart.com, Infibeam.com,
Electronics/DVD’s Naaptol.com, Letsbuy.com
Apparel 30,000 220% 1.25% 9.2 FashionAndYou.com,Yebhi.com,
Myntra.com, 99labels.com
Deals 425,000 3000% 13% 3.7 Snapdeal.com
Source: Google Trends for Websites & Vizisense
1. Amongst Books/Electronics/DVD’s offline players with Online presence such as
FutureBazaar.com and HomeShop18.com receive as many visits as the pure play
Ecommerce players. Amazon.com still receives twice as many visits as Indian players
within India.
2. Amongst apparel, offline brands such as Shoppersstop.com lag pure Ecommerce
players.
3. Among deals, there is a clear monopoly with Snapdeal accounting for more than 90% of
the traffic. Deals also have a secondary demographic group – Students.

6. Market Size
The Total Ecommerce Market for 2011 Is estimated to be 50,000 Crores (GMV), an impressive
growth rate of 47 per cent YoY. This is on the back of 5 Crores ‘active’ internet users in India.
Implying a revenue of Rs 1000 per active User. People from more than 3300 Villages and Cities
have purchased something online, including 1100 rural locations.
Through an average of Top Down, Bottom Up and Comparable Geography Market Size, I expect
Indian E-Commerce to grow at 30-40% Annually and be a Rs 260,000 Crores(GMV) market by
2016 (See Appendix 3: Revenue Growth Projections).
Amazon DangDan
Financial Analysis g.com
P/S (ttm) 2.24 1.88
Branded E-tailing (Books, Electronics, Music, Return on Equity (TTM): 15.24% NA
EV 85.48B 526.24M
Movies, etc…)
Profit Margin (TTM): 2.58% 1.30%
Source: Google Finance
a. Globally Etailing platforms run on profitably Value Metrics (2016) INR Crores
margin of 1.3 – 2.58%, Indian Ecommerce Total Retail Sales (GMV) 260000
platforms may run on even lesser margins GMV to Revenue 20%
given Infrastructural and Payment processing Revenue 52000
difficulties % Share of Etailing 15%
Total Etailing Sales 7800
b. A Future Multiple based valuation technique
P/S 2.02
values the Etaiing Market at INR 4200 Crores Future Valuation 15756
c. It is rumored that Flipkart is valued at INR Discount Rate 30%
4800 Crores, this may be a strategy to deter Current Valuation(2011) 4243.549
Amazon from entering India alone. (http://www.vccircle.com/500/news/flipkart-set-to-
raise-150m-from-general-atlantic-at-1b-valuation)
d. There are concerns around overvaluation and a bubble in Ecommerce. (See:
http://www.pluggd.in/stop-blowing-our-ecommerce-bubbles-297/,
http://blog.kamadolli.com/2011/08/india-e-commerce-joining-the-rant-wagon/)
Travel Expedia Ctrip.com MMYT
a. MMYT (and other Indian players) need to ramp P/S (ttm) 2.14 11.55 5.62
up hotel and Package bookings in order to reach Return on 15.59% 18.87% 18.82%
Equity (ttm)
global margin standards. EV 7.24B 5.32B 664.47M
b. Reported Revenues are $124.72M for FY11 Profit Margin 12.09% 35.07% 3.87%
(ttm)
c. Gross bookings $742.5 million for FY11
Source: Google Finance
d. MMYT just released Q1’12 reports showing healthy growth in Revenues
(http://investors.makemytrip.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=598162)

7. The Three Facets of Ecommerce
Ecommerce can be broadly divided into three distinct modules Customer Facing, Supply
Networks and Delivery Channels (See Appendix 1: Evolution of an ECommerce Startup / ECommerce
Org Chart)
Customer Facing
1. Web Product Design. User friendly interface is crucial to converting Visitors into Buyers.
Typical Ecommerce conversions are 4-6%. China/US Ecommerce sites convert at > 10%
levels.
2. Customer Acquisition. Digital Marketing channels including SEO, SEM, Social Media,
SMS, Emails, Mobile Ads; Offline channels include Print, Radio and TV. Typical Cost per
Acquisition range from Rs 400 to Rs 2000. Marketing through Digital Channels is clearly
not cheap. (See Appendix 7: Google AdWords CPC by Segment)
(http://www.alootechie.com/news/google-targets-triple-digit-revenue-growth-through-
local-ads-indian-smbs) .
3. Customer Support (Social Media and Inbound Call Centers)
4. Payment Processing. E.g. Avenues.com, ItzCash. Costs can vary from 2-5% depending on
volumes and form of payment. Failure rates and Fraud have considerably reduced to an
acceptable level
Supply Networks
Supply networks have evolved differently for each vertical. Merchandiser- Vendor negotiations
greatly determine Payment terms and Supply Time/reliability. In general the more consolidated
an industry the more organized the network (E.g. Flight Ticketing).
1. Books, Electronics & Apparel
Regional
Dealers
Brands:
Ecommerce National
Players such as Level Samsung, LG, Rupa,
Flipkart, Distributor Levi’s, Van Heusen
Infibeam, F & You
Most brands/publishers work with national level distributors, who then distribute to regional
dealers. Ecommerce players can work with either Regional Dealers or National Distributors.
With volume these can be removed and direct brand relationships need to be built.

8. 2. Travel Ticketing: Ticket Aggregators such as GDS provide fairly straightforward
integration into flight availability and booking.
3. Hotel Booking: A challenge exists in streamlining the various layers of intermediaries
/aggregators which exist without adding any real value between the Customer and
Hotel. Myriad layers of intermediaries with vested interests are not allowing this
category to take off in spite of huge margins and high volumes. However as OTA’s gain
volumes they are replacing some of these aggregators and there is an opportunity to
consolidate the value chain.
Affiliates Such
as Ixigo
OTA’s such as Cleartrip,
Travelguru, Yatra, MMT Agent Side Hotel Side
Aggregators
Aggregators
Such as Via,
Such As Hbsi
Travelocity,
Expedia
Travel Agents
4. Deals: There are no existing networks for aggregating deals. Thus it is a challenge to
build a Business Development team to collect deals. At the same time it is an
opportunity given that margins do not need to be shared with intermediaries.
Delivery Channels
Needed only for product delivery, deals/ticketing can forgo this expense
1. Inventory Management, Warehousing, Packaging and Shipping:
Technology enabled CRM systems and demand forecasting are vital to optimize delivery
time & cost.
2. Couriers and Last mile delivery channels:
(E.g. Aramaex and AFL Couriers) Negotiations determine freight costs, time to deliver, attempts
at delivery, etc.. COD greatly boosts market size; however it comes with its own challenges
around Returns, Incorrect Address, etc... Hence this is more expensive (even excluding freight)
than traditional Payment processors.

9. Market share & Competition
Non travel Retail related sites reach
about 54% (up 14% YoY) of the Online
Audience in India. With the bulk of the
reach coming from Computer Software
downloads, Consumer Electronics,
Hardware, Comparison shopping and
Books
Travel related sites reach 40% (up 13%
YoY) of Indian Online users, dominated
by Railways booking sites, followed by
OTA’s Competitive Landscape of Consumer Ecommerce: Products
Source:Vizisense
Of the 7.1 million people visiting the top three OTAs, MakeMyTrip, Yatra Online and
ClearTrip.com, 71 percent of visitors checked in at only one of the three sites,
demonstrating relatively strong brand loyalty among the top players.
Competitive Landscape for Travel
based ECommerce
Souce: Comscore
Share of Retail Categories by Geography Source: Comscore

10. Key Growth Drivers
1. Scale through a superior service quality and high repeat business and referrals.
2. Horizontal play, Number of categories served
3. Reduce operational expenses by investing in warehouses / Logistics.
4. Supplier relationships over other brands and potential new entrants
5. Variety of products available under each category.
6. Conversion rates for major players are still in the middle single digits, contrast with
US/China where they are above 10%.
7. COD consists of 80% of Ecommerce transactions in China, India has much lesser.
8. South East Asia represents a huge opportunity for Indian Ecommerce companies to
expand into. Snapdeal is one of the Companies considering going global.
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Key Challenges / Barriers
1. Accounting practices at most ecommerce sites still report revenues
as Gross Merchandise Value. Further deep discounts are treated as
long-term amortisable marketing expenses
2. 20 % of the Users account for 64% of the total time spent on the
Internet. In order to scale it is important to increase internet
consumption across existing Internet users
3. Core network infrastructure in India is not capable of handling a
huge surge in Internet traffic. Only 20% of the Intra Telco network is
over robust fiber networks, While Telco’s concentrate on individual
networks, there aren’t sufficient peering points for traffic crossover.
4. Payment system infrastructure continues to be woefully
inadequate.
5. It is rumored that SEBI is considering imposing Capital gains tax on
Venture capital investments.
6. Global players such as Amazon looking to enter India
Internet Usage Patterns:
7. Local Language Content – Local Search Engines Like Baidu Source: Comscore
Internet Distribution System &
structure
Shared-access (Cyber Cafes / Mobile Phones / Universities)
population in India is almost as large as the Internet
population accessing from work and home
Figure 1 Unique Visitors (Million) Independent Vs Shared

11. Online Usage Behavior trends & Key Opportunities
1. Internet Audience in India skews dramatically
young, three-quarters of the web audience is
under the age of 35. This skew can be
attributed to the demographic profile of the
country, Younger population has access to
better devices and connectivity .
2. 41% of Indian Internet users visited an
Education site
3. 14% of Indian Internet users visited a Personal’s site 2Internet Audience Age Group. Souce:
(Dating/Matrimony, etc..) Comscore
4. 40% of Indian Internet users visited a Career services and
development site
5. 77% of Indian Internet users visited a Entertainment Netflix Youku.com
P/S (ttm) 4.81 30.88
site (Music/Movies/Videos). However, Online video
Return on Equity 83.62% NA
viewing in India is still lower than the World Average (ttm)
6. This Age group also has disposable incomes, hence
EV 12.68B 2.34B
could be the drivers for Ecommerce
Profit Margin (ttm) 8.04% -27.96%
7. Comparison shopping is used by only 10% of the
Indian Online users, give the price sensitive mindset
this should increase ( Argentina/Brazil has more than 50% adoption of comparison
shopping) Source: Google Finance
Major Investments in the industry
Company Company Investor Amount Date
Description raised
1 Flipkart Online Services Ecommerce for General Atlantic $150 Million, Not Yet
Pvt Ltd Books, Electronics, Partners ($1B declared
Music, Movies Valuation)
2 Ixigo.com Travel Metasearch SAIF Partners, $18.5 Million August
MakeMyTrip 10, 2011
2 Snapdeal (Jasper Group deals portal Bessemer Ventures, $40 Million July 26,
InfoTech) Nexus Venture Partners 2011
and IndoUS Venture
Partners
3 Yebhi.com Online shoes, apparel, Nexus Venture Partners $9 Million July 21,
(Bigshoebazaar) bags, accessories and and Catamaran Ventures 2011
gift items
4 Zovi.com Private Label Apparel SAIF Partners & Others $5.5 Million July 5,
2011
5 Global Online Apparel Apparel, Deals, etc… Mangrove Capital $4.4 Million July 5,
(FashionAndYou, Partners 2011

12. DealAndYou,
6 JustDial Local business listings Sequoia Capital $10 Million June 6,
site Global Equities and SAP 2011
Ventures
7 Exclusively.in Fashion flash sales Tiger Global $16 Million May 27,
Management LLC, Accel 2011
Partners and Helion
Ventures
8 ThePrivateSales.com Fashion flash sales Undisclosed $5 Million May 20,
2011
9 Redbus.in (PilaniSoft) Bus Tickets Helion Ventures, $6.5 Million May 16,
Inventus and Seedfund 2011
10 Yatra Online Pvt Ltd, online travel Intel Capital Undisclosed May 13,
company 2011
11 99labels.com Fashion flash Sales InfoEdge $3.5 Million May 11,
2011
12 Quickr a horizontal Nokia Growth Partners $8 Million May 9,
classifieds player (NGP), Norwest Venture 2011
Partners and eBay Inc.
13 Policy Bazaar Financial Products InfoEdge, Intel Capital $10 Million April 21,
comparison 2011
Success stories / Important Exits
MakeMyTrip
The MakeMyTrip (MMYT) stock surged 89% on its listing on 12th August’2010, and has been the
best IPO to list in the US since Athena health Inc’s IPO in 1997 which surged 97% on listing.
Justdial
Just Dial’s consolidated total income stood at Rs 189.91 Crores in FY11, representing a CAGR of
39.4 per cent. Its profits after tax increased from Rs 1.64 Crores in FY07 to Rs 28.62 Crores in
FY11. In FY 2011, the company addressed over 180 million search queries from millions of users
across platforms. For the year ended March, Just Dial reported a profit after tax of Rs 28.6
Crores, up from last year’s Rs 18.4 Crores. Mumbai’s Just Dial plans to go down the IPO path
and has filed documents with SEBI. It seeks to raise Rs 360 Crores through sale of fresh shares
and some more via sale of shares by private equity (PE) investors. PE companies such
as SAIF Partners (21.58 per cent), Sequoia (12.73 per cent) and Tiger Global (21.84 per cent)
own large stakes.
Yatra
Emboldened by the success of MakeMyTrip (MMYT) Ltd’s listing on Nasdaq, the US exchange,
Yatra.com, one of MMYT’s major competitors, may also go the public offer way. Industry

13. sources peg the IPO figure at $50-80 million (Rs 230-370 Crores). Yatra.com has a market share
of about 30 per cent, while about 48 per cent of the $1 billion (Rs 4,600 Crores) in online travel
reservations made in India last year were booked through MMYT.
Regulatory Advantage & legal frameworks
As per regulations, foreign companies cannot enter into retail business directly (they can engage in B2B
trading though) – and that’s precisely the reason why you won’t see Yahoo Shopping/Amazon running
their operation in India.
FDI up to 100% permitted for e-commerce activities subject to the condition that such companies would
divest 26% of their equity in favor of the Indian public in five years, if these companies are listed in other
parts of the world. Such companies would engage only in business to business (B2B) e-commerce and
not in retail trading

14. Appendix 1: Evolution of an ECommerce Startup / ECommerce Org Chart
1. Get ECommerce site up to take transactions (Typically 3-6 months since start)
a. Get website ready (either build from scratch or use a hosted shopping cart)
b. Setup payment gateway
c. Setup a shipping partner
d. Upload and manage initial list of products
e. Setup and manage initial supplier list for products to be drop shipped (or ship from own simple
warehouse)
Team needed: Business (customer service, supply chain, operations, legal, etc) + Engineering (1-2 folks should
suffice)
2. Get to 100 transactions / day & unit profitability (Typically 9 months to 1.5 years since start)
a. Optimize website for SEO, put an affiliate marketing program, pay for SEM, social media
b. Expand product list and supplier list
c. Setup small warehouse (if customization is required) and manage inventory costs
Team added: Digital marketing, Procurement manager, Supply Chain and Logistics Managers and Customer
Service, Increase engineering (User experience, Scalability experts, etc.)
3. Get to 500 transactions / day & scale (Typically 2-4 years from start)
a. Include brand marketing efforts including TV, print and billboard advertising
b. Expand into adjacent vertical products spaces, add new suppliers
c. Keep refining website to include up sell, cross sell and analytics efforts
Team added: Head of brand marketing, Category manager (Merchandise Manager) for each category, Catalog
manager (write product descriptions, take product photos, etc.)
4. Show gross profitability and scale beyond 1000 transactions
a. Manage inventory and costs and ensure optimization of logistics and warehousing
b. Recruit and manage team for growth
c. Look for non-linear sources of traffic to the website, possibly add corporate sales
Figure 3 Source http://www.pluggd.in/author/mukund/

15. Appendix 2: Fundamental Analysis of Global Ecommerce Players
Figure 4 Source: http://blog.kamadolli.com/

16. Appendix 3: Revenue Growth Projections
1. US Ecommerce Growth rates have been in the 20-30% range over the past decade
2. In India, Broadband Penetration
Growth(Source:
http://rtn.asia/347_indias-broadband-
growth-slows-65-december-quarter) >
20%, Plus Revenue Per User Growth >
10 % will support sustained Ecommerce
growth > 30%
3. Related technologies such as Mobile
penetration have grown faster
(although later)in India than in US
4. Globalization and Cultural convergence
will lead to higher consumption
aspirations
5. Adoption amongst Tier3 cities and
villages as well as amongst low income
groups suggests mass appeal
6. Recent technology Innovations have
reduced digital fraud to below retail
cash fraud rates
7. There is an immediate opportunity to
win customers buying offline after
looking for Information Online
8. We are looking at an opportunity to
create the next Airtel / Tata / Reliance
The total retail sales in India will grow %Age Transactions Online (2016) Ecommerce market (INR Crores)
from US$ 395.96 billion in 2011 to US$ 5 157024
6 188429
785.12 billion by 2015 7 219834
http://www.ibef.org/industry/retail.aspx). 8 251238
Currently 3% of retail transactions occur 9 282643
10 314048
online, which will grow to 7-9% by 2016.
11 345453
12 376858
Figure 5 Ecommerce Market Size Vs Online as a %age of total retail

17. Appendix 4: Current Revenue Sensitivity 3% 4% 5% 6% 7%
Projections 300 13 17 22 26 30
400 17 23 29 35 40
Sensitivity of Yearly Revenues (INR Crores)to
500 22 29 36 43 50
Conversion rates and Average Transaction 600 26 35 43 52 60
Size. These tables are drawn using Average 700 30 40 50 60 71
Visitors from Appendix 7.
Figure 6, Revenue projections for Books/Electronics/Music/Movies
Appendix 5: List of Ecommerce players by category
1. Gifts, cakes etc. Infibeam.com, Fernsnpetals.com, IndianGiftsPortal.com, Talash.com GlimGifts.com
2. Books Flipkart.com, Landmarkonthenet.com, A1books.co.in
3. Custom designed T-shirt, mug, calendar etc Myntra.com,Zoomin.com, Snapfish.in, Picsquare.com
4. ApparelsPantaloons, Shoppersstop.com, Inkfruit.com,UtsavSarees.comGlobusZovi.com
5. Sweets and bakery items Mithaimate.com
6. Artwork auction Saffronart.com
7. A-Z items for Babies Hushbabies.com, Firstcry.com, BalGopal.com, Kidloo.comBabyoye.com
8. Movie ticket bookingBookmyshow.comPVRCinemas.com
9. Online travel ticketing and hotel booking Irctc.co.in, Redbus.in, MakeMyTrip.com, Yatra.com,
TripAdvisor.in, ClearTrip.com, Travelguru.com,Expedia.co.in, Ezeego1.co.in, Ixigo.com, TravelMasti.com,
Hotels.com
10. Airlines portals Goindigo.in, Indian Airlines, Jetlite.com, Flykingfisher.com, Goair.in, Spicejet.com,
Jetairways
11. B2C ( Multiple products ) Ebay.in, IndiaTimes, Rediff Shopping, Bigbazar, Homeshop18.com,
Shop.zapak.com, Shop.in.com, Tradeus.in, Indiaplaza.in, Egully.com, 20north.comTimtara.com
YepmeShopping.comBigadda.com
12. Rent a movie BigFlix.com,Seventymm.com
13. FootwearYebhi.com,Metro ShoesBata ShoesBeStylish
14. Deal a day SnapDeal.com, Dealsandyou.com, Mydala.com, Koovs.com, Grabbon.com,
BindaasBargain.com, Taggle.com, SoSasta.com, Dealivore.com, Grako.in, Dealsonline4u.com
Bagittoday.com 99labels.com Fashionandyou.com Timesdeal.com Rediff-DealHoJaye Dealface.com
DealYantra.comBuzzintown DealsDealsNow (For Corporates)
15. Electronics, Gadgets, PhonesDell.co.in, Ezone, EDigiWorld, BitFang.comLetsbuy.com
LootSpot.comNext.co.in, infibeam.com
16. Jewellery Caratlane.com, Suratdiamond.com Ddamas.co.in
17. Lingerie Straps and Strings, Ngal Originals, Victoria’s Secret India
18. Sports Playgroundonline.com Esportsbuy.com
19. Health, Fitness, Beauty, Wellness Health Shoppe, Urbantouch
20. Perfumes Perfume2Order, Beautymart.in,PerfumesDirect
21. Groceries, Vegetables, Fruits AaramShop.com Mandifresh

18. Appendix 6: Vertical specific demographics
OTA & Hotel Booking
Each Web property
receives on an average
150,000 Unique Users /
Day (Growing > 100%
annually).
In a month these
properties reached
around 4% of the Indian
Population
Users spent about 8
minutes per visit, enough
time to research and buy. Figure 7 Daily Unique Visitors by Month
Primary customers are
Young Graduate Males, > 15 above 60
Middle Income Groups. 10 - 14.99 45 - 60
Long tail in terms of 7 - 9.99 35 - 44
5 - 6.99 25 - 34
lower Income groups is
2 - 4.99 15 - 24
also visible <2 below 15
Early adoption amongst
0 20 40 60 0 20 40 60
the Under 15 and 15-24
Age group who will lead
consumption in the Figure 2 %Users by Income (INR Lakhs/Yr) Figure 3
%Users by Age decade.
coming
Metro’s and Tier one 47.5
cities account for roughly
half the traffic, with the
remainder distributed
across India. Showing the
long tail of users 12.00 12.50
7.25
3.50 4.75 4.75
0.25 0.25 0.50 0.75 0.75 0.75 2.25 2.25
Table 1 %Users by City

19. Books & Electronics
Each Web property receives
on an average 40,000
Unique Users / Day
(Growing > 80% annually).
Amazon still gets 80,000
Unique visits indicating
opportunity for growth,
Homeshop18 and
Futurebazaar also get similar
number of visits
In a month these properties
reached around 1.5% of the Figure 8 Daily Unique Visitors by Month
Indian Population.
Users spent 7 minutes per > 15 above 60
visit, enough time to 10 - 14.99 45 - 60
research & transact. 7 - 9.99 35 - 44
Primary customers are 5 - 6.99 25 - 34
Young Graduate Males & 2 - 4.99 15 - 24
<2 below 15
Females, Middle Income
Groups. Long tail in terms of 0 20 40 60 0 20 40 60
lower Income groups is also
visible
Figure 2 %Users by Income (INR Lakhs/Yr) Figure 3
Early adoption amongst the
%Users by Age
Under 15 and 15-24 Age
group who will lead
consumption in the coming
decade. 46.3
Long tail in city traffic
Typical Conversion rates are
4-6%. i.e. revenues of INR
36-52 Crores (Appendix 3)
10.0 10.0
7.5
5.0 6.5
0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.8 1.0 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.8 2.5
Table 2 %Users by City

20. Apparel
Each Web property receives
on an average 30,000
Unique Users / Day
(Growing > 220% annually).
Established offline Brands
such as Shoppers stop are
lagging the New entrants
In a month these properties
reached around 1.25% of
the Indian Population.
Users spent 9.2 minutes per
Figure 9 Daily Unique Visitors by Month
visit, this is higher than
travel, books and electronics
indicating a more engaging > 15 above 60
experience 10 - 14.99 45 - 60
Contrary to perception 7 - 9.99 35 - 44
5 - 6.99 25 - 34
males (60%) outnumber
2 - 4.99 15 - 24
females (40%)
<2 below 15
Primary customers are
Young Graduate Adults, 0 20 40 0 20 40 60
Middle - High Income
Groups. Long tail in terms of
Figure 2 %Users by Income (INR Lakhs/Yr) Figure 3
%Users by Age Income groups is also
lower
visible
Early adoption amongst the
15-24 Age group who will
lead consumption in the
53.00
coming decade.
Long tail in city traffic
8.25 8.25 9.50 9.50
0.25 0.25 0.25 0.50 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.75 0.75 1.00 1.50 1.75 2.25
Table 3 %Users by City

21. Daily Deals
Snapdeal is a clear winner
receiving on an average
425,000 Unique Users / Day
(Growing >3000% annually).
Remaining websites are far
behind at 30,000 UU’s/Day
In a month Snapdeal
reached around 13% of the
Indian Population.
Users spent 3.7 minutes per
visit, indicates casual
Figure 10 Daily Unique Visitors by Month (TTM)
browsing, not enough time
for purchase
Primary customers are > 15 above 60
10 - 14.99 45 - 60
Students/Young Graduate
7 - 9.99 35 - 44
Adults, Middle - High
5 - 6.99 25 - 34
Income Groups. Long tail in 2 - 4.99 15 - 24
terms of lower Income <2 below 15
groups is also visible
Early adoption amongst the 0 20 40 60 0 20 40 60
15-24 Age group who will
lead consumption in the Figure 2 %Users by Income (INR Lakhs/Yr) Figure 3
%Users by Age decade.
coming
Long tail in city traffic
80.00
68.00
70.00
60.00
50.00
40.00
30.00
20.00
5.00 6.00 6.00 8.00 8.00
10.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 2.00
0.00
Table 4 %Users by City

22. Appendix 7: Google AdWords CPC by Segment
Clearly, CPC are highest for Deals and Electronics, whereas Apparel has very low CPC’s