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Jumia Launches late-night Food Delivery service

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Success Damian: From Left to Right: Guy Futi, Managing Director, Jumia Food, Chioma Odimegwu, Head of Marketing and Vendor Success, Jumia Food and Jumia Party Nigeria, Omolara Adagunodo, Managing Director, Jumia Travel & Olukayode Kolawole, Head Public Relations, Jumia 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 platf...

Four & Five-star Hotel Bookings peaked during Black Friday - Jumia MD

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Cyriacus Nnaji: From Left to Right: Guy Futi, Managing Director, Jumia Food, Chioma Odimegwu, Head of Marketing and Vendor Success, Jumia Food and Jumia Party Nigeria, Omolara Adagunodo, Managing Director, Jumia Travel & Olukayode Kolawole, Head Public Relations, Jumia Jumia's hotel & flight Marketplace has announced that booking for four and five-star hotels peaked during the just concluded Black Friday which ran between November 2nd and November 30th, 2018. The Managing Director of Jumia’s hotel & flight marketplace, Omolara Adagunodo made this announcement during a press conference held at Krispy Kreme, Victoria Island, Lagos, to review the outgoing year and to disclose the plans for 2019. “We recorded over 50% increase in 4 & 5-star booking during Black Friday because we crashed the prices by almost 80% and overall booking grew by 20% year on year compared to black Friday 2017", Adagunodo said. Speaking on the performance of flight for th...

Konga announces New Yakata dates, appreciates customers for successful 2018 outing

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Success Damain: Konga, Nigeria's e-Commerce giant recently unveiled new annual dates for future editions of the widely popular Konga Yakata sales which would henceforth run from November 11 th to December 12 th . Konga Yakata will now go live every year starting with Singles Day on 11/11 and end on the 12/12 with Nigeria Pink Day which will mark the climax of its Yakata Sales. According to the Management of Konga, the new Yakata has an enhanced human face with the launch of the Konga Citizen Support Project which is the social responsibility arm of Konga. At the end of every Yakata , Konga will donate a variety of items required for the festive season to needy and less-privileged Nigerians. Konga will also leverage its retail stores and other platforms nationwide to collect and deliver the items to the recipients, including donations contributed by public spirited Nigerians and corporate organizations. Interestingly, the company has also unveiled its fes...