Chennai, June 30 : Flipkart today announced the launch of its grocery services in the textile city of Coimbatore with the opening of its first fulfillment center in the region to meet the growing demand for groceries online.
The opening of this facility also bolsters Flipkart’s supply chain in the South and will create thousands of direct and indirect employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Spread across an area of over 1.2 lakh sqft, the newly built facility will generate direct employment for about 1,200 people, while encouraging local entrepreneurship.
In the initial stages, only a part of the facility will be utilized for which over 500 people will be hired.
It will be the only facility for Flipkart which will be almost entirely run by women constituting 90 per cent of the overall workforce, a Flipkart release said.
To enable more women to join the workforce, Flipkart under its initiative Vividhta, provides workplace policies that support women and their career progression.
It has set up a creche facility at the centre and will offer transportation and meals to all its employees to enable them to work effectively.
The new fulfillment centre (FC) will further augment Flipkart’s capabilities to cater to more consumers, including millions of first-time e-commerce consumers from the South region.
This is Flipkart’s second grocery facility in Tamil Nadu after Chennai and ninth in the South.(UNI)