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Massimiliano Spalazzi took over from Anammah as CEO in Nigeria in January 2020 and Anammah was appointed chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and the Head of Institutional Affairs, Africa. [15] In 2015, Jumia generated $234 million in revenue, a 265% growth from 2014. [16] In 2016, Jumia became the continent’s first unicorn being valued at over 1 ...
Konga.com is a Nigerian e-commerce company founded in July 2012 with headquarters in Gbagada, Lagos State.It offers a third-party online marketplace, as well as first-party direct retail spanning various categories including consumer electronics, fashion, home appliances, books, children's items, computers & accessories, phones and tablets, health care, and personal care products.
Since 2019, Jiji has been operating in five African countries: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania after buying OLX Africa. [citation needed] In 2020, the company launched website and app in Ethiopia. In June 2021, Jiji has acquired an automotive company Cars45 in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. [13] [14]
Kaymu initially launched in Nigeria and Pakistan in January 2013 and within 27 months opened operations in 32 other countries. [3] Kaymu copies eBay's model; it does not offer first-party product sales, and it has separate retail websites for each of the countries it operates in. Kaymu's closest competitor is Naspers-owned OLX who have operations in over 100 countries and run a C2C model.
Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas: Oil and gas 6,315 ... 3 MTN Nigeria: Telecommunications 3,514 536 4 Dangote Cement: Cement 2,699 721 5 Nigerian Petroleum Development: Oil and gas 2,686 219 6 Flour Mills of Nigeria: Agroindustry 2,014 67 7 Airtel Nigeria: Telecommunications 1,503 343 8 Nigerian Breweries: Agroindustry 890 19 9 Jumia: Retail 837 ...
Jumia Travel was founded in 2013 by the E-commerce platform Africa Internet Group (now Jumia Group) and is backed by MTN, Rocket Internet, Millicom, Orange, Axa and other financial partners. [11] Operations were started in 2013 in Nigeria and Kenya by company's co-founder Marek Zmysłowski [12] and Estelle Verdier. [13]
In 2010, Moore and Hughes, with banker Chad Larson founded the start-up in Nairobi that became M-Kopa the following year. [7] Hughes previously set up and ran M-Pesa at Vodafone, a mobile phone-based money transfer, financing and microfinancing service, where Moore also worked whilst completing his MBA. [8]
MTN has a 49 percent stake in government-controlled MTN Irancell, the second-largest mobile phone operator in Iran, and 21 percent of MTN's subscriber base is from the country. In January 2012, the US-based advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) launched a campaign publicly calling for MTN to scale back its operations in Iran and end ...