Flipkart vendors, and vice versa, but these plans never actually came to fruit. In July 2017, Flipkart made an offer to acquire its main domestic competitor, Snapdeal, for around US$700–800 million. It was rejected by the company, which was seeking at least US$1 billion. Flipkart held a 51% share of all Indian smartphone shipments in 2017, overtaking Amazon India (33%). Flipkart sold 1.3 million phones in 20 hours on 21 September alone for its Big Billion Days promotion, doubling the number sold on the first day of the event in 2016 (where it sold a total of 2.5 million phones in
Country Road around the same time. During 2015, Country Road launched its homewares range in most David Jones stores across Australia. In 2016, Country Road launched sunglasses for women and purchased leading Australian menswear brand Politix. In October 2017, Country Road launched personalisation service for online orders. Country Road Country Road is a middle market clothing retailer located in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. South African company Woolworths Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent company of Country Road, whose offer of $17/share was accepted on 4 September 2014. The brand has a customer loyalty program which enables members to receive special