…App downloaders’ to gain more
Leading online shopping giant, Jumia Nigeria has concluded arrangements for the 2017 Black Friday shopping spree with fabulous deals powered by whopping attractive discounts.
This year’s event is billed as the Jumia Black Friday Festival and will run for 31 days from November 13th to December 13th 2017 on www.Jumia.com.ng.
Addressing ICT Editors on Monday in Lagos on Jumia Black Friday 2017, Chief Executive Officer of the e-commerce giant, Ms. Juliet Anammah, listed top partners to include leading indigenous auto group, Coscharis, Intel, Pampers, Infinix, Philips, Fero, HP, MTN, AirFrance-KLM and about 1,000 top brands.
She called on prospective buyers to go first for the App down load to stand a better chance of getting better deals within the period.
According to her, this year will be the largest shopping event in Nigeria with up to 1 million amazing deals and discounts on offer at up to 80% off.
The 2017 Jumia Black Friday will feature a first-of-its-kind event for shoppers as Jumia partners with music entertainment TV station, TRACE Naija to create the Trace Jumia MAD (Music and Deals) Fest. It’s a live event that will offer the explosive combination of Nigerian music and Black Friday frenzy for customers and attendees alike. The Trace Jumia MAD Fest will place on the 18th of November 2017 at the King’s College grounds in Victoria Island, Lagos.
While registration is required, attendance is free. Performers at the TraceJumia MAD Fest include Falz, Simi, 9ice, Mayorkun, Niniola, Lil Kesh, Sound Sultan, Skales, Pencil, DJ Xlusive, Wande Coal DJ Consequence, Nedu and a host of comedians, and musical acts will be thrilling the customers to incredible app flash sales and lots of giveaways. Included in this year’s Jumia Black Friday shopping activities is an online wheel of fortune which churns out exclusive shopping vouchers. Also on the line-up are hourly flash sales and app-only deals with super low prices. Customers will have the opportunity to also enjoy discounts from Jumia Food and Jumia Travel. As part of the 31 days of Jumia Black Friday, customers will have the chance to enter a lottery to win one of the five FREE AirFrance-KLM return tickets to London, 20 discounted AirFrance-KLM tickets at 35% off, and a brand new Ford Figo courtesy of Coscharis Nigeria Limited. Shoppers on www.Jumia.com.ng will also enjoy 10% discount off when payment is made with an FCMB bank account via JumiaPay.
In his remarks, the General Manager, Marketing at Coscharis Motors, Mr. Babarinde Abiona said “Coscharis is happy to partner with Jumia in this year’s Black Friday and we are offering thought-provoking deals across all our products”.
Also speaking, Head of Operations and Customer Service at Midcom, promoters of Fero Phones said all the companies old and new products are covered within the offerings during the period of the Black Friday.
On systems readiness for the massive traffic expected within the season, Ms. Anammah assured that the system had been upgraded and strengthened to withstand redundancy and latency as the capacity had been tripled to handle any volume of traffic within the period.
