E-commerce
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e-commerce brand tracking in Kenya
🏆 BeautyClick #1 🥇 in our May 2021 ranking of e-commerce brands in Kenya in terms of satisfaction followed by Naivas.co.ke 🥈 and Jumia 🥉. Other brands in our Top 10 include Glovo, Uber Eats, MyDawa, Copia, Amazon, Jumia Food and Kilimall. BeautyClick was added in May to the list of brands we track, ahead
19th May 2021
Categories: Retail - Internet retail - e-commerce - SagaBrand - Kenya
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Move fast and break things: E-commerce players on a steep learning curve as they seek a business model for Africa
Image: COURTESY COVID-19 turbocharges growth Even before the onset of COVID-19, interest in online shopping was on the rise in Africa, albeit from quite a low base. The rapidly rising penetration rate of mobile phones, particularly smartphones, over recent years, is playing a key role in this. The total traffic for online marketplaces in Africa
4th February 2021
Categories: Blog - Retail - Internet retail - e-commerce - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Sagaci Insights
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Ranking of non-alcoholic beverages players in Côte d’Ivoire based on “Likelyhood to purchase” in Q4 2020
2020 has been a challenging year for most brands in the beverages industry, including in Côte d’Ivoire. Cash tight consumers have reduced their consumption frequencies and changed their habits in terms of brands. Sagaci Research, through its SagaBrand tracker tool, took a closer look at the brand movements. Which non-alcoholic beverages in Côte d’Ivoire
25th January 2021
Categories: Africa - Côte d'Ivoire - FMCG - Non-alcoholic beverages - SagaBrand - Consumer
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Ranking of e-commerce players in Kenya based on “Positive Recommendation” in Q4 2020
2020 has been a challenging year for most Kenyan brands yet e-commerce players have been great winners in that odd context. Shopping habits have changed significantly and e-commerce players have greatly benefited from that context and from the limitation of physical movements. Sagaci Research, through its SagaBrand tracker tool, took a closer look at the
8th December 2020
Categories: Retail - Africa - e-commerce - SagaBrand - Kenya
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Despite Covid-19 disruption, Jumia continues to narrow its losses
In the three months to June 2020, operating losses at Africa-focused internet retailer Jumia declined at an annual rate of 43.6%, to €37.6 million. It operates across 11 African markets, with a particular focus on North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia) and West Africa (Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal), in addition to Kenya,
2nd September 2020
Categories: SagaRetail News - Retail - Internet retail - Jumia
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Kenyan retailers to ramp up e-commerce efforts in response to Covid-19 threat
Once referred to by Naivas chief commercial officer Willy Kimani as a “necessary evil,” Kenyan supermarket chains are now scrambling to ramp up their online presence as the number of Covid-19 infections in the country grows. During mid-March, Naivas, which established a partnership with Spanish delivery platform Glovo last year, announced that it would reduce
27th March 2020
Categories: Foodservice - SagaRetail News - Supermarkets - Naivas - Tuskys - Retail & Shopping Malls - Kenya
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Jumia re-orients consumer proposition as it seeks path to profitability
Having exited the Cameroonian, Tanzanian, and Rwandan markets over recent months and reoriented its marketing efforts towards lower-value items, internet retailer Jumia saw its gross merchandise value (GMV) decline at an annual rate of 3% during Q4 2019, from €311 million in Q4 2018 to €301 million. However, for 2019 as a whole, GMV rose
11th March 2020
Categories: SagaRetail News - Egypt - Ghana - Cote d'Ivoire - Kenya - Morocco - Nigeria - Senegal - South Africa
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New investment for Kenyan catalogue retailer
Nairobi-based Copia has raised USD26 million in a Series-B equity round led by UK-based impact investment fund LGT Lightstone. Impact investing refers to investments that are made with the aim of generating a measurable social, or environmental benefit, in addition to a financial return. According to Copia, it intends to use this investment to expand
2nd December 2019
Categories: SagaRetail News - Kenya
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Jumia IPO gives a peek under the hood of African e-commerce
As had been widely anticipated (see our previous story), Jumia is to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Founded in 2012 by Berlin-based Rocket Internet (which currently holds a 20.6% stake), Jumia is part-owned by telecommunications companies MTN (29.7%) and Millicom International Cellular (9.6%), insurance company AXA (5.8%), and alcoholic drinks giant Pernod Ricard
14th March 2019
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Egypt - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ghana - Algeria - Cameroon - Cote d'Ivoire - Kenya - Morocco - Nigeria - Rwanda - Senegal - Tanzania - Tunisia - Uganda - South Africa - Ivory Coast
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Need a goat in a hurry? This Angolan start-up will deliver it to your door – still bleating
The on-demand delivery segment is hotting up in Africa, with Spanish company Glovo commencing operations in Kenya and Morocco recently and Angolan player Tupuca exhibiting strong growth. Based in Luanda, the latter was founded by four friends in 2015 and now has 140 drivers making 17,000 deliveries a month, with an average order value of
27th February 2019
Categories: SagaRetail News - Retail & Shopping Malls - Angola
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