Jumia Celebrates a Decade of eCommerce in Uganda

Jumia Uganda, the country’s primary eCommerce system yesterday celebrated its 10th-anniversary commemorating a 10 years of eCommerce in the region. The eCommerce agency has managed to preserve its leadership in the eCommerce area in Uganda as the number a single on line searching spot for electronics, home appliances, vogue on Jumia, food items, and day to day essentials.

While talking to the press at their new head workplace at Union House, Bugolobi, Kampala, Mr. Ron Kawarama, the CEO of Jumia Uganda credited the company’s ongoing advancement and existence to shopper have faith in, partnerships, continuous innovation, and research.

“Business sustainability is a problem, particularly in the highly aggressive setting in Uganda. Our accomplishment tale is many thanks to the ongoing have confidence in that our individuals have in our brand, and the potent partnerships that we have established with both of those area and worldwide corporations sellers, logistics companions, financial investment companions, and other folks,” Kawarama explained. “Innovation is vital for Jumia and we continuously innovate to give solutions that meet up with our customer wants based on responses and trends.”

As a vital investment decision partner to Jumia, United Nations Progress Programme (UNDP), Mr. Innocent Fred Ejolu, the UNDP Partnerships, Innovation, and Development Remedies Professional Focal Point, Accelerator Lab, expressed gratitude to Jumia for the continued attempts to make improvements to the livelihoods of Ugandans throughout the state and fully commited to proceed supporting Jumia.

“UNDP partnered with Jumia Food in 2022 in the wake of COVID 19 with the goal of connecting informal market place distributors with customers as a result of Jumia’s eCommerce platform,” explained Ejolu.

“Most of the modest companies, up to 60%, ended up dealing with the risk of closure. So We immediately labored with Jumia and designed a partnership that enabled us to join 7 markets in Kampala and we’ve acquired quite a ton by this procedure, that we can near the digital divide,” Ejolu explains.

Ejolu further more mentioned that it is some thing positive and a thing UNDP can capitalize on and they want to ride on Jumia’s link with the E-Investing Affiliation to faucet into Jumia’s expertise to assistance them establish a far more responsive regulatory ecosystem for eCommerce and most likely seem at how they can facilitate trade over and above borders employing electronic platforms.

“We are performing on supporting the Ministry of Trade with an eCommerce system and prepare — and we imagine that this is a system we can experience on to see if we can produce the conditions for what we are constructing with Jumia to grow,” Ejolu told the press in his concluding remarks.

Jumia in its 10-yr procedure in Uganda has managed to attain all districts in Uganda by way of a distribution network of in excess of 200 decide on-up stations supported by in excess of 2,000 sales brokers and 12 planet-class logistics companions.

Jumia Food stuff in the meantime has recognized partnerships with about 450 places to eat throughout Kampala and Entebbe to produce food stuff, gasoline, drinking water, prescription drugs, and groceries to shoppers, retaining dominance in the food items eCommerce market place.