'Amazon does not give preferential treatment to any seller on its marketplace вЂ“ all sellers determine and control pricing for their products, and independently manage their own inventory including for private brands, which are sold by independent sellers on our marketplace. When contacted by MailOnline for comment, an Amazon spokesperson said: 'As we told Reuters when they contacted us for the story in question, these allegations are incorrect and unsubstantiated.ДЄmazon has denied claims that they ran a systematic campaign to create knock-off versions of products listed on its website then manipulated search results to boost sales of them in India (stock image) The employees also allegedly stoked sales of Amazon private-brand products by rigging Amazon's search results so that the company's products would appear, as one 2016 strategy report for India put it, 'in the first 2 or three вЂ¦ search results' when customers were shopping on Amazon.in.

The documents are reported to show Amazon's private-brands team in India secretly exploited internal data from Amazon.in to copy products sold by other companies, and then offered them on its platform. Thousands of pages of internal Amazon documents examined by the news agency Reuters вЂ“ including emails, strategy papers and business plans вЂ“ allegedly show the company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India, one of the company's largest growth markets. Amazon has denied claims that theyВ ran a systematic campaign to create knock-off versions of products listed on its website then manipulated search results to boost sales of them in India.

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