Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jumia, the e-commerce platform in Uganda, kicked off its 11 years celebrations in Uganda with a campaign launch dubbed ‘Jumia Loves You’. As part of the festivities, the company is offering a discount promo of up to 60% across all product categories from June 5 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s leading e-commerce platform, Jumia will for its 6th year running, host the annual Jumia Black Friday from November 4th to 30th, 2022. The company hosted hundreds of its vendors to a conference at Fairway Hotel in Kampala Thursday to recognize, guide and encourage …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | E-commerce firm, Jumia has officially launched the 9th edition of its annual tech-sale. Executives said yesterday (March 21) in Kampala that the sale activity will run from March 21 to April 3rd themed “Upgrade your tech today”. This year’s Jumia tech-sale will offer shoppers across …
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Spanish on-demand courier service, Glovo, now plans to expand into Jinja or Entebbe as it grows its network across Uganda. Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | The company currently partners with various businesses including retail chains such as Carrefour and fast food chains, KFC, Mr. Tasty Fried Chicken, The Food …
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Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | The rise of e-commerce in the past few years is benefiting budding entrepreneurs as consumers are finding it easy to do shopping by merely clicking the button of their internet enabled devices. One of the entrepreneurs interviewed for this story, Joachim Mumbere has turned his shop …
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Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | As coronavirus restrictions continue to bite the economy, e-commerce firm, Jumia, is creating job opportunities for the youth to make money and transform their lives on its platform. Since 2018, the company came up with Uganda’s JForce program. The program is Jumia’s pioneer sales consultants …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Businge| E-commerce platform, Jumia has officially announced the launch of a Food Festival Campaign which is running up to the end of this month (Oct.31). Conducted via the Jumia Food app, the campaign is being done in partnership with local restaurants, supermarkets and fresh produce …
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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Africa’s e-commerce platform Jumia is looking to increase partnerships with Chinese suppliers in order to boost its revenue streams, the company said on Thursday. Sam Chappatte, CEO of Jumia Kenya, told Xinhua in Nairobi that China is an efficient producer of goods and therefore many of …
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Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | MultiChoice Uganda customers can now access a range of items including decoders, dish, external antenna, remote control on the e-commerce website – Jumia, officials announced on May 29. Colin Asiimwe, the MultiChoice Uganda head of marketing said that the partnership between the two firms is …
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Dakar, Senegal | AFP | Seydou Sall sprays antiseptic on bags of food freshly deposited by an e-commerce firm at his home in an upmarket quarter of Senegal’s capital Dakar. In a pattern repeated across the continent, the researcher has turned to online deliveries to get basics such as sugar, milk …
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