Jumia Tanzania Managing Director Nina Holmes said yesterday at the just ended annual conference on the Future of E- Commerce in Tanzania which was held in Buni Innovation Hub at the Commission of Science and Technology (COSTECH) that hotels, brands, real estate agents, car dealers, logistic companies would significantly benefit with the new platform.
“We have decided to come up with new a e-commerce platform to provide solutions to customer needs in Africa because some entrepreneurs have best products but they don’t understand where to sell those products,” she said.
She said Jumia has joined forces to connect customer’s access to all services within their website or platform in terms of buying best products as well as affordable prices thus creating more opportunities for Tanzania and Africa as a whole.
The objective of the platform is to ensure that companies are connected to Jumia’s ecosystem with a new vision – ‘Expand your Horizons.’ The new Jumia ecosystem will give access to products and services from its seven leading platforms.
According to her, through seven leading platforms right now customers can find on Jumia all their needs in terms of branded products, fashion and electronics items, hotel booking, food delivery, classifieds, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs, Jumia Car and lastly logistics services with Jumia Services.
“We are really excited to engage our existing customers as well as welcome new customers in the full internet ecosystem through the Jumia brands because this move will allow us to offer customers clear and easy navigation as well as excellent experience across all our services,” she said.
On the other hand, Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, Founders and co-Chief Executive Officer of Jumia added that through the seven leading platform sellers will also benefit from this move by getting access to more traffic and to a greater world of opportunities.
“Everyday Jumia helps and encourages restaurants, hotels, local sellers, brands, real estate agents, car dealers, large companies, and logistic companies to become better, bigger, more efficient thus creating positive impact for Africa,” he said.
Operating under the same brand name reinforces the legitimacy of proposing other services to our customers and to our sellers.
“We want to have one strong brand that is trusted and loved by our customers across Africa,” said
Jumia’s new vision, “Expand your Horizons,” expresses the group’s ambition to transform people’s lives through internet, overcoming the ground market challenges of the continent and giving all Africans the opportunity to access high quality services and products everywhere.
Jumia aims at creating a connected digital Africa to improve people’s lives on the continent, thanks to the internet.
Jumia mission is to connect African consumers and entrepreneurs to do better business together and find more customers.
Jumia was founded in 2012 with a presence all over Africa, the group has MTN, rocket Internet, Millicom, Orange and Axa as investors and right now Jumia has been creating a sustainable ecosystem of digital services and infrastructures through online and mobile marketplaces and classifieds.
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