In 2005, he started with a small parlour in Mumbai. In fact, the growth of the tattoo trend can be gauged from Hakim's progress. The average age is likely to be above 25. People actually make a very conscious decision to go in for a tattoo after having given it careful thought," he says. "It's not a coming of age thing in India as it is in the West. But celebrity tattoo artist and director of Hakim's Aalim Tattoo Lounge, Aalim Hakim, feels that the average age of a tattoo getter is higher in India. Tattoos are considered to be an under-25 phenomenon with most people going in for an ink by that age. It's being the official expression of rebels and hippies that corporate world doesn't look kindly towards it. Maybe because they started as the bastion of the marginalised: gypsies, freak shows, criminals and the non-conformists. By and large, the consensus is tattoos and workplace don't mix. In other words, tattoos are not an issue in a corporate environment, provided they remain unseen. Like most of the corporate dress codes - ties, formal pants, jackets - no tattoos at workplace is an unspoken rule. No one cares what you have on your body as long as it stays hidden,” she says. While at work, the HR executive, who probably hands out dress codes to people on not to wear visible body art, decided to get her shoulder tattooed as it stays covered while at work. It was after eight years of working that Mishra decided to get inked. In one of the first major announcements in two years in India, Amazon launched Amazon Air in the country earlier this week. But the company’s top country managers were absent from the event, according to a person familiar with the matter.Shikha Mishra, 31, a human resource executive with a mobile phone company, has a phoenix inked on her right shoulder. Amazon went public with its frustration, and then entered the quiet mode. But the company, by all accounts, appears to be continuing to invest in its core e-commerce business in India.Īmazon faced a very public setback in the country last year after India’s largest retail giant Reliance outwitted the American firm into securing retailer Future Group’s assets. It has shut some of the newer bets - food delivery, wholesale distribution, and an attempt at online learning. Amazon has spent the past few months streamlining its business in India. UPI, which processes over 7 billion transactions a month, is the most popular way Indians pay online.Īs Walmart makes splashy moves, its rival is taking a different approach. And PhonePe commands over 40% of all transactions on UPI, a payments network in India built by a coalition of retail banks. Walmart, which missed the e-commerce race in the U.S., has coughed up over $20 billion on Flipkart and PhonePe to buy the lion’s share in India’s e-commerce and payments markets.įlipkart leads the e-commerce market in India, according to Bernstein. India, the world’s second largest internet market, has become a key battleground for Walmart and Amazon.Īmazon has spent over $9 billion in India (including investments for AWS cloud regions in the country) over the past decade. company, which owns majority stake in Flipkart, is now looking to spend about $1.5 billion to buy back the e-commerce firm’s shares from early backers Tiger Global and Accel Partners, Indian newspaper Economic Times reported Thursday. Walmart is also looking to invest between $200 million and $300 million in PhonePe’s ongoing funding round, according to a source familiar with the matter. Walmart spent about $780 million earlier this month in taxes after PhonePe, in which the retailer owns a majority stake, moved its domicile to India from Singapore. Walmart is preparing to spend over $2.5 billion in India as the retailer doubles down on the opportunities it sees in India’s e-commerce and payments markets even as the firm contends with rising costs amid the market downturns.
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