Amazon
Opens Its Largest Warehouse in India Near Hyderabad
Indo-Asian News Service , 11 June 2015
Global e-commerce major Amazon on Wednesday
opened its biggest 'fulfilment centre' (FC) or warehouse in India, at Kothur in
Telangana.
Spread over 280,000 square feet, the facility has come up in
Mahabubnagar district, about 35 km from Hyderabad.
This has taken to 11 Amazon's FCs in eight states, covering one
million square feet of space with a storage capacity of over 2.5 million cubic
metres, the company said.
The new facility, which has come up with the largest investment
by Amazon in any state, will help small and medium businesses (SMBs) in
Telangana and the nearby region to gain access to and service customers across
the country at low operating costs.
Amazon India's director for operations Akhil
Saxena said the FC will also enable faster and quicker delivery of products to
amazon.in customers in the region.
Amazon has already signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
with Telangana to train thousands of sellers across the state in e-commerce and
take advantage of the digital economy.
Amazon India will offer trainings to SMEs through seminars,
workshops, video aids and ready reckoners on how to list and manage inventory
for an e-commerce business.
Telangana's Information Technology Minister K. Tarakarama Rao,
who inaugurated the FC, said Amazon will build a 2.5 million square feet campus
in Hyderabad, which will be its biggest campus outside the United States.
Saxena said work on the project would begin soon.
The state government has allotted 10 acres of land for the
campus in the IT corridor of Gachibowli. He declined to share the quantum of
investment.
An official in the state's IT department said Amazon will be
investing about Rs. 1,800 crores in the facility.
The minister, who visited the US last month, said he requested
Amazon to set up a data centre in Hyderabad and bring Amazon Web Services (AWS), a collection of remote computing
services, to Telangana.
He expects a delegation from the US to visit
Hyderabad soon to study the proposal.