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  • Jumia restates commitment to gender inclusion, others

    Jumia restates commitment to gender inclusion, others

    Jumia Nigeria has  reaffirmed its commitment to gender inclusion and empowerment .

    It held a seminar in Lagos in celebration of International Women’s Day with the theme: “Accelerate Action”.

    The seminar provided a platform to celebrate the achievements of women within Jumia while fostering discussions on strategies to accelerate women’s success across various sectors.

    Head of Human Resources, Risper Obure,said at Jumia the  belief is  that empowering women is key to building a more inclusive and innovative workplace.

    He noted that the seminar was an avenue to  reinforce the firm’s commitment to promoting a culture where women are equipped with the resources and support needed to thrive.

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     Head of Commercial Operations and Revenue Management, Shola Ositelu, said empowering women is not just about providing opportunities but also about creating an environment where they can thrive and lead.

    The event, hosted by Amarachi Ikwuegwu, featured a compelling panel discussion with key female leaders within Jumia.

    Head of Advertising, Sheila Wagio  advised women to view setbacks as opportunities for growth and to focus on long-term success despite challenges.

    The seminar concluded with a call to action for women to challenge societal norms and advocate for themselves in breaking barriers to success.

  • Jumia Launches Late-night Food Delivery Service

    Jumia’s marketplace for restaurants has launched a late-night delivery service to enable customers to order food up until midnight.

    The Managing Director of the company, Guy Futi disclosed this at a press conference held at Krispy Kreme, Victoria Island, Lagos.

    “We introduced the late-night delivery service to accommodate customers who order food at night. The late night delivery combined with initiatives like greater customer accessibility, more payment options, more locations, lunchtime deals, seasonal deals and new related products (Jumia Party) has led to over 120% increase in the volume of orders,” Guy said.

    Speaking on efforts to ensure quick delivery of foods ordered on the platform, Guy, who was recently appointed the Managing Director of the marketplace said: “We have made it possible for orders to be picked up by the rider closest to a restaurant’s location. With this, we can deliver orders to the customer’s doorstep within 40 minutes and interestingly, the delivery process can be tracked right from the time when the customer places the order to the moment the order is delivered.”

    On what to expect in 2019, the Head of Marketing and Vendor Success for the Marketplace, Chioma Odimegwu said that operational efficiency will be an integral part of the company’s focus in 2019.

    Her words: “In 2019, we are looking forward to welcoming a new and exciting restaurant/vendor on board within the month. We will also be engaging new partnerships across other industries to provide added value to customers, onboarding more restaurants with longer and later open hours, more focus on corporate catering offerings, encouraging closer relationships with our customers and restaurant vendors.”

  • Jumia kicks off 6th Black Friday campaign

    … aimed at promoting Nigerian SMEs

     

    …..says the campaign will offer customers up to 90% discount on over 4 million products

     

    Jumia Nigeria has announced the commencement date for its 6th Black Friday campaign, aimed at revolutionising the shopping habit of Nigerians, promoting the convenience of online shopping and growing small and medium businesses across the country.

    The chief executive officer of Jumia Nigeria, Mrs. Juliet Anammah who made the announcement during a press conference to flag off the campaign in Lagos said the campaign will run from Friday, November 2nd (midnight at 12.01am) through November 30th, 2018.

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    Anammah also stated that special deals such as flash sales, treasure hunts and special vouchers will be exclusively available to customers who shop on the Jumia App.

    “We expect to see an increase of 50% website traffic as a build up over last year’s Black Friday. The rise of mobile penetration in the country which stands at 84% is one of the factors driving our App and website visits; others being our amazing deals. Last year, 79% of our customers shopped on mobile phones (website & App), and we are looking to upturn the numbers to 100% at the end of 2018, in order to achieve the country’s goal of becoming a mobile-first country,” she added.

    Speaking of the concerted efforts Jumia has put in providing customers with a wide assortment of quality products to choose from, the chief commercial officer of Jumia Nigeria, Shobhit Pandey said: “We have doubled our product assortment compared to 2017 Black Friday campaign. This year, with the support of our vendors, we are offering our customers discounts as high as 80% on categories such as men’s and women’s fashion, 70% on wristwatches and sunglasses, 65% on health and beauty products, 50% on mobile phones, electronics, and groceries, and 40% on fitness and automobile products. Unlike last year, these amazing deals will only be available every Friday of the week in the month of November.” He further thanked Jumia’s partners, such as Binatone, HP, Samsung, and Haier for offering the best rates during the campaign.

    Prasun Banerjee, managing director, Binatone Nigeria who spoke about why the partnership with Jumia for Black Friday will help deepen ecommerce penetration in the country, said: “has made the Black Friday sales event a wonderful opportunity for us to offer huge discounts to their customers, thereby enabling us to sell more items than we projected. This means that more Nigerians will shop during this period.” Banerjee also mentioned that the Black Friday campaign has become, through Jumia, the most anticipated shopping festival since 2013 in Nigeria.

    Although, logistics has always been the biggest challenge facing most eCommerce companies in the world and in Nigeria especially during special sales campaign such as Black Friday. However, the country manager for Jumia Services (Jumia’s logistics arm), Tolulope George-Yanwah has assured customers to expect excellent delivery services during and after the campaign. According to her, Jumia has identified some logistics challenges during Black Friday, and these have been fixed ahead of November 2nd.

    “We have a projection to process 50% more orders than last year’s Black Friday, and we have ensured to put in place an increased workforce, split across the major cities in the country. Our delivery associates have been trained on the best technologies that will aid the discharge of their duties. We have also provided a real-time technology that allows our customers to trace the fulfillment process of their orders from when they are shipped from the warehouse till they are delivered. This is besides necessary partnership that we have entered with other delivery companies to support our efforts towards ensuring orders are delivered on time,” added Anammah

    Head of Engagement Marketing, Jumia Nigeria, Olamide Amosu explained why the company is focused on driving its App usage, especially for the Black Friday period. She said: “We’re focused on encouraging our customers to make all their purchases on the mobile App due to the increasing number of customers shopping on our website via their mobile phones, and the easy access it provides customers to access bigger deals and enhance price comparison. Shopping on the App consumes less data which helps customers to save money, and to make it attractive for use, special deals such as flash sales, treasure hunts and special vouchers will be exclusively available to customers who shop on the Jumia App.

    On the other hand, Jumia’s all in one App – Jumia One – in the spirit of Black Friday, will be giving 10 lucky customers N10, 000 worth of airtime, 10 lucky customers N10, 000 worth of TV and internet subscriptions if they buy from at least 2 different services on the App, 10 lucky customers N10, 000 worth of airtime if they purchase a minimum of N1, 000 airtime, and 50% cashback for airtime purchase within the first one hour.

  • Jumia CEO speaks on ‘digital economy, consumerism’ in Singapore

    The government of Singapore, through Enterprise Singapore, has invited the CEO of Jumia Nigeria, Mrs Juliet Anammah to join other respected business leaders across Africa and Asia to lead discussions around digital economy, business financing, and consumerism on the continent. Enterprise Singapore is the country’s agency vested with the responsibility of championing enterprise development and organising the 2018 Africa Singapore Business Forum (ASBF) slated to hold between August 28 and 29, 2018 in Singapore.

    With ongoing business technology growth to be discussed during the Business Forum, ASBF offers a premier platform for promoting business exchange and thought leadership between Africa and Asia. The forum has brought together over 2,000 business and government leaders from 30 countries to develop opportunities and partnerships between these two dynamic regions.

    Mrs Anammah will be joining on ASBF 2018’s 1st panel session alongside, Haresh Aswani of Tolaram Group; Pieter Cilellers of Tana Africa Capital; Edward Kieswetter of GEMSAfrica Ltd.; and Tauriq Brown of South Africa Thai Chamber of Commerce, to discuss: “Consumerism: Capturing Africa’s Rising Consumption.”

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    During the panel session, Mrs Anammah will provide data-driven insights on the factors influencing consumers/customers’ choices, buying behaviour, other factors driving and shaping their needs and how organisations with variety of products/services can use these data to leap into Africa to conduct successful transactions in the continent. She will draw insights from Jumia’s operations across 15 African markets, with much focus on Nigeria, being the most populous country in the Africa, and Jumia’s biggest market.

    She will also feature on the second panel discussing: Digital Economy: Entering the Digitalisation Race in Africa, alongside Eric Barbier of TransferTo; Kamal Bhattacharya of Safaricom Ltd.; Pardon Makumbe of CRE Venture Capital; and Kariuki Nagri of Standard Chartered Bank.

    ASBF 2018 will address critical issues and identify opportunities in key sectors, including real estate, oil and gas, digital economy and manufacturing. The forum will also address the important question of financing when doing business in Africa.

  • Ours is biggest Black Friday ever – Jumia Nigeria

    Ours is biggest Black Friday ever – Jumia Nigeria

    Jumia Nigeria has said its 2017 Black Friday Festival has attracted more than 14 million visits since the campaign started November 13. The annual sales event, which was initiated in Nigeria in 2013 by Jumia remains the busiest and largest shopping day of the year on both online and offline stores.

    Speaking on Wednesday, at a special forum to give update about the festival to reporters in Lagos, its CEO, Juliet Anammah, expressed gratitude to shoppers and partners for the unprecedented response to the festival, adding that it is symbolic of the trust they have for the brand.

    She said: “This year’s explosive Black Friday numbers demonstrates the increasing capacity and flexibility of the online retail space in Nigeria. We deliver to the 36 states across Nigeria, and are able to reach neighbourhoods and shoppers who traditionally have not had access to a wide variety of products and deals. This year we also see the increasing interest in groceries and other fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) which reflect the increasing relevance of Black Friday to the average Nigerian.”

    Unveiling the significant milestones achieved so far, she said more than 1.9 million people visited on Black Friday Big Bang while 14.4 million has visited since the start of the sales event.

    “Overall, 85 per cent of all visits were made on a mobile device, compared to 72 per cent in 2016; 86,000 smartphones and more have been sold in the past two weeks;

    380,000 – number of spaghetti packets that have shipped out; 208,214 – the number of times the Jumia app has been installed since the beginning of Black Friday festival; the top selling feature phone has been the Tecno T401 – (Triple Sim, Back Camera with Flash); while the items sold on Black Friday 2017 Big Bang day was 174 per cent more compared to the items sold last year,” Juliet said.

    She also announced a new partnership with Dangote Cement. “Dangote cement can now be bought on jumia.com.ng in three different quantities, available to ship to Jumia customers in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. The cement will retail for N2,500 per bag,” she added.

    This year’s Jumia Black Friday Festival featured partnerships with Intel, Pampers, Infinix, Philips, Fero, HP, MTN and Air France-KLM.

    “For the first time, the shopping event featured a lottery giveaway with the grand prize of a brand new car courtesy of Coscharis Nigeria Limited. Another big first this year was the sale of premium cars at up to 60 per cent off, like the Range Rover Evoque Coupe and the Jaguar XE.

    FCMB is also sponsoring an extra 10per cent off on all orders above N5,000 that are paid for using an FCMB account on Jumia Pay.

    Filmhouse Cinemas also added excitement to the event by giving away a free cinema ticket to every Black Friday shopper who has a valid Jumia order number or invoice. In addition to this the first 1,000 customers to place Jumia Express orders everyday receive a complementary treat courtesy of McVities biscuits,” she said.