Jumia is giving shoppers, who purchase the latest LG’ Smartphone on its website, a trip to London. The LG G3 is exclusive online to Jumia.com.ng and the firm has also promised to give free accessories with the phone. The LG G3 has proved itself making sure it surpasses rival Smartphone brands with the enormous 5.5inch quad HD display screen, which is one of the big selling points for the LG G3 phone. The new Smartphone also comes in 4.4.2 android OS, 16gb Inbuilt storage space, Removable 3000 mAH battery & a quad-core snapdragon processor. The killer feature for the LG G3 is its 13-megapixel camera with auto-focus laser than can take fast pictures and capture great moments, also with the selfie camera for social experience. The LG G3 has been compared to other Smartphone launched this year from Samsung and other brands and still stands out with high ratings and reviews.
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Jumia takes shoppers to London
Jumia is giving shoppers, who purchase the latest LG’ Smartphone on its website, a trip to London. The LG G3 is exclusive online to Jumia.com.ng and the firm has also promised to give free accessories with the phone. The LG G3 has proved itself making sure it surpasses rival Smartphone brands with the enormous 5.5inch quad HD display screen, which is one of the big selling points for the LG G3 phone.
The new Smartphone also comes in 4.4.2 android OS, 16gb Inbuilt storage space, Removable 3000 mAH battery & a quad-core snapdragon processor. The killer feature for the LG G3 is its 13-megapixel camera with auto-focus laser than can take fast pictures and capture great moments, also with the selfie camera for social experience.
The LG G3 has been compared to other Smartphone launched this year from Samsung and other brands and still stands out with high ratings and reviews.
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Jumia introduces new windows app
Jumia has launched a new App on windows App store for customers to get unlimited shopping experience on the largest online store in Nigeria with over 200,000 items listed.
It also offers customers a great shopping experience with the expansion to Windows phone for customers to enjoy large assortment of products.
Speaking about Jumia’s innovation for the Windows phone, its Nigeria’s Managing Director for Marketing & Sales, Jonathan Doerr said: “We are giving Nigerians the best shopping experience with technology innovation such as the new App for windows phone. This is to extend our relation to customers, giving them the option to make Jumia their home with the app shopping through our major categories and getting the best price.”
Microsoft Mobile West Africa’s Managing Director, Nick Imudia, said the Jumia app is one of the more interesting additions to the Lumia device.
”We are happy to partner with the Jumia, the leading e-commerce company in Nigeria, to bring this on the Lumia device. This is one of our ways of ensuring that our customers get access to the tools they need on their Lumia devices. The app allows people to shop for any of the items available on the Jumia website right from their Lumia device anytime and anywhere.”
For customers, this is like a back door access to Jumia’s 200,000 products with the new Jumia App for windows. The app is available for free download on all Lumia range of devices with free shopping discount voucher for every user. Jumia is also giving one windows phone user the chance to win a Nokia Lumia phone when they download the new Jumia App.
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Jumia Shopping Festival to boost e-commerce in Egypt
Jumia Egypt announced the launch of the first edition of ‘Jumia Shopping Festival’, the first online shopping festival in Egypt that brings together top brands in all categories – electronics, home and kitchen, health and beauty and others. Over those 10 days, Jumia visitors will encounter discounts up to 80 per cent across different categories that they can avail by making purchases from home, office or even by using their phone, through Jumia’s mobile app or the website.
This initiative aims to increase the rate of online shopping and users in Egypt stressing on the idea that online is not only the new way of shopping, but the new way of living. Moreover, with many first-time online shoppers expected to log in, brands and companies are targeting the acquisition of more and more new customers.
“With thousands of new Internet users in Egypt every month, Jumia Shopping Festival will be the biggest platform seen in Egypt until now for awareness raising about the usability and practicality of online shopping. With this initiative we are not only increasing the number of online shoppers in Egypt, but also fuelling the growth and sales of local and international companies helping them with brand visibility and traffic,” says Mattia Perroni, CEO at Jumia Egypt.
On the initiative, Ahmed Elfiky, online marketing manager, Jumia Egypt, added: “We are excited about this first Jumia Shopping Festival and hopeful of achieving an impressive number of sales and traffic. This will benefit Jumia, the brands and companies, the users and the e-commerce industry as a whole.”
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Jumia rewards customers with rams at Eid-El –Fitri
To celebrate Eid-El –Fitri with its muslim customers, Nigeria’s largest online store Jumia gave out a ram in a promo.
The promo was on all through the fast period and was built around buying ‘anytime item’ from the Jumia Ramadan store. The competition ended a few days to the end of Ramadan and Jumia announced the winner as Abdulazeez Akanni.
To enter for the draw, the winner bought a tablet and tablet accessory, he emerge the winner and a ram was delivered to his house before the Eid-El –Fitri celebration.
In excitement, Abdulazeez Akanni said: “When I got the call that I had won a Ram from shopping on Jumia, I was really surprised because I shopped from the Ramadan store without knowing there was a ram to be won. This is one of the blessings I have received this Ramadan and I say a big Thank you to Jumia for this great Ramadan Gift“
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Jumia empowers SME’s
As part of its innovative approach towards transforming the Nigerian retail space, Jumia has introduced an online marketplace platform to serve as a veritable model that will shape the future of retail in Nigeria. The Jumia marketplace offers Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) opportunities to showcase their products online thereby reaching a larger and more targeted audience.
The platform is not limited to businesses; it also brings on board individuals who run small businesses on the side and are looking to increase visibility. “I run a home-based business and I must say joining the Jumia marketplace has really been helpful especially with increasing my sales. Jumia has offered my business more visibility,” said Kenneth Ubogu, a Jumia Market place seller.
Some of Jumia’s marketplace sellers include home-based business owners and mobile sellers. “Jumia helped my business a lot with the marketplace platform. It is the best thing that has happened to my business. I have tripled my revenue in six months since I started selling on the marketplace,” stated Ayodeji of Odej, a home-based seller.
Another seller from the marketplace, Eileen Gold mentioned that she was amongst the first people to join the marketplace and she is glad to have the opportunity to be on Jumia’s marketplace because she has more access to people and it has helped to increase her sales.
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Jumia expands operations to Kano as it turns two
Jumia, Nigeria’s first and largest online retailer, celebrates two years of delivering smiles and empowering Nigerians. Jumia has pioneered e-commerce in Nigeria and has attracted global recognition to the industry in Nigeria, which has also attracted huge foreign direct investment into the country leading to a rise in the industry’s contribution to Nigeria’s GDP, with further prospects to emerge within the e-commerce sector in the coming years.
Jumia rounded off a stellar year in 2013, by winning the best new retailer at the World Retail Awards, the first time any African retailer has won an award at this prestigious event.
In a statement, the co-CEO Jumia Nigeria Nicolas Martin said Jumia Nigeria, which began two years ago has created an avenue for customers to shop online at ease with convenience on delivery.
Martin who said the company is planning to open a Kano office, said the theme for Jumia’s anniversary as it turns two is “Empowering Nigerians.” According to him, with the e-commerce technology space growing so fast, we have seen many ways Jumia has impacted Nigeria’s technological landscape.
“We have created over 1,000 jobs with an average age of 27, while also empowering them to become entrepreneurs, by constantly equipping them with the right tools and training through the recent launch of our Jumia Academy. Jumia is also supporting manufacturers of ‘Made in Nigeria products’ as well as other SME’s through the introduction of the Jumia marketplace, helping them reach out to their target audience and increase sales significantly. Most importantly for us at Jumia is the utmost need to empower our customers through providing them with an organised retail structure backed by world class customer service which was inexistent in Nigeria till the arrival of Jumia,” he added.
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Jumia Launches Fathers Day store
• gives priority to male items
To make this year’s Fathers Day a memorable one, Jumia has launched a Fathers Day store. The store parades the best array of gifts ranging from an exquisite collection of cufflinks for those whose fathers are more formal in their dressing to latest technology tablets.
Trendy ties, belts and timeless wrist watches are also available in the store. There is also a selection of premium polo shirts, which the firm believes is a must have for all fathers this season.
The online firm also did not leave out those signature drinks some men hold in high esteem. There is also 60 per cent discount off all items in the Jumia fashion store in this month’s fashion clearance sale specially for men and some for women.
“To give back to those father figures in your lives, giving them gifts is one of the best ways to say a big thank you to the best dad,” the firm said.
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Jumia unveils fashion video
A number of top celebrities in the fashion industry recently graced the unveiling of Jumia Fashion Campaign video in Lagos.
In the video, Jumia’s fashion core values, which include sophisticated and stylish fashion infused with the traditional edge of made- in- Nigeria fashion, were showcased.
Jumia Fashion, which was launched in 2012, has an array of fashion and beauty items for males, females.
Funmi Daniels, who representing Jumia Nigeria, stated: “Jumia is glad that Nigerians are embracing fashion online and moving away from shopping from abroad, with the great opportunity that Jumia has provided, in terms of large assortments and brands.
It is obvious that Jumia, the largest online fashion store with over 20,000 fashion items, is on the move with another fashion forward campaign. The colourful event was attended by notable fashionistas, including Toke Makinwa, Lola Maja, and Emmy Collins, among others.
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Jumia celebrates best month of performance
• Opens staff training school
Jumia Nigeria has celebrated her highest sales since inception. This, according to the company, was the result of unrelenting hard work and dedication from the team.
To compensate members of the team for their efforts, there was an award ceremony to recognise, motivate and empower team members. To continue the celebration of the team’s achievement, a team bonding event was also held to further enhance a team spirit within the Jumia sales force.
Head of Sales Force, Jumia Nigeria Hajar Ohusin, said: “With the continuous efforts of each sales force members, the team is getting stronger and stronger especially now that we are reaching into more cities and even smaller towns across the country.
“Jumia Nigeria invests quality time and intensive training in each employee and as a result, members of staff are highly motivated and driven. There are also other empowerment initiatives such as coaching and mentoring programmes, resulting in great output.”
Jumia plans to expand and recruit more people to join the team outside Lagos and Abuja. There is a constant growth within the Jumia sales force. One of the aims of this is to empower and motivate young people, instill entrepreneurial skills in them for better national economic growth.
Also, Jumia, an employer of over 1,000 staff, has introduced a new programme to empower staff.The company, which was launched in 2012 with only five staff, has since expanded with over 1000 staff across the country. The staff level cuts across various departments, with an average age of 27. The company has been adjudged as one of the most exciting workplaces to be in Nigeria, having grown a culture of employing some of the most talented and skilled minds in the industry.
Job creation has been one of Nigeria’s biggest problems and Jumia seeks to help with employing and empowering members of staffs with tools and processes that will prepare them for a greater future. The company’s training school seeks to train employees to be future entrepreneurs with start-up ideas to grow the Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SMEs) industry and technology industry in Nigeria. This was why as part of its commitment to empower Nigerians Jumia launched it’s Jumia Academy.
Co-Chief Executive Officer Jumia Nigeria, Nicolas Martin, said: “Jumia Nigeria will continue to grow with the help of the best talents in Nigeria, employing the largest workforce in the online retail industry, which is growing by the day with the aim of grooming employees to be the next generation of CEOs with intensive training at the Jumia Academy.
The Academy, has over 100 ‘Jumians’ trained for various skills and areas of work.
Head of the Academy, Sarah Carzim, spoke about the Academy. ”From the onset our mission was to find ways to help staff grow within the company. After months of hard work, Feedback and research in-house, we were able to find a way to empower staff through the ‘Jumia Academy’. It is not very often you find this in a new company but the aim is to pave the way for Jumians and also potential Jumians to be the best they can be,” she said.
The institution is said to be continuous for every Jumian including new members of staff, giving them the opportunity to reach the top level and become managers in the near future within or outside Jumia.