Amazon brings its much-celebrated Amazon Experience Arena to Chennai; offers business customers extra savings on bulk purchases during Amazon Great Indian Festival 2023
• Chennai gets a glimpse of ‘Amazon Experience Arena’ event, providing retail and business customers a unique view of the exciting deals and offers during the Amazon Great India Festival 2023
• Business customers in Chennai show a strong inclination towards automotive, furniture, laptop and IT peripheral purchases during festive season
Chennai, October 31, 2023: India’s most awaited shopping event – Amazon Great Indian Festival 2023, that went live on October 8th, 2023, brings the joy of shopping to its customers in Chennai through Amazon Experience Arena, a virtual destination designed to bring favourite Amazon categories to life. Hosted at SRM Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, Amazon Experience Arena, provided a glimpse into the world of Amazon and enabled media, influencers and customers an exciting opportunity to explore their Favourite brands and gain access to exciting deals and offers at the ongoing Amazon Great Indian Festival.
Amazon Xperience Arena curated with seven engaging and interactive zones, enabled customers to participate in exciting competitions and win fantastic Amazon prizes. It also provided the chance to enjoy never-seen-before deals on the widest selection of products across categories including Smartphones, Laptops, Large appliances, TVs, Consumer Electronics and Kitchen appliances at great value and convenience of fast and reliable delivery.
On Amazon Business, customers can enjoy these deals and additionally get up to 5% extra discounts on bulk orders; avail instant credit of up to Rs.60000 based on their eligibility and save up to 28% with GST input credit. Most popular products among business customers included IT peripherals (growing at ~1.5X vs last year), office furniture and fixtures (growing at ~1.4X vs last year), gifting products like Small Appliances and Gift Baskets (growing at ~1.6X YoY), Maintenance and Repair products (growing at ~1.5X vs last year) and Security & Surveillance products (growing at ~2.5X vs last year).
Commenting on the occasion, Suchit Subhas, Director, Amazon India said, “We are excited to provide our customers with a unique view into the exciting deals and offers to be availed during the Amazon Great India Festival 2023 at ‘Amazon Experience Arena’ in Chennai. Business customers in Chennai have continued to shop from Amazon Business, over past years. We have ~1.3X YoY increase in customer registrations and ~1.4X YoY increase in sales from Chennai. This festive season, we are delighted to offer great deals, exciting offers to business customers and help them shop more and save more during our ongoing Amazon Great Indian Festival 2023”
This year, Amazon Business completed six years of empowering business customers in India, helping them with seamless and efficient e-procurement. With more than 19cr GST across 14 lakhs+ sellers, Amazon Business, today, caters to more than 99.5% pin codes across the country and has created a one-stop destination for all business buying needs. To commemorate the six years, it announced its integration with Amazon Pay Later to provide a virtual credit to eligible business customers. All eligible business customers have seamless access to 30-day interest free credit with the option to extend to 12 months at minimal interest rates, and no hidden costs
This initiative is aimed to help MSMEs and other corporate buyers to extend their budgets for bulk and regular purchases of products ranging from daily essentials, electronics, to corporate gifts with an easy and hassle-free payment experience. With in-built security features, Amazon Pay Later will give customers an option to set up auto-repayment to settle monthly bill or EMIs through the bank of their choice.
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2023 celebrates 14 lakh+ sellers, offering crores of products to customers on Amazon.in, including unique products from Indian Small and Medium Businesses and local stores. The ‘Amazon Experience Arena’ moves to Kolkata on 7th November. The ‘Amazon Experience Arena’ curated in the form of life-size boxes is set to become the city’s attraction for a day!
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