Ecommerce
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6.5KOpinion: Distribution is everything, outsourcing it could be recipe for disaster
Lord Harold Samuel, a British real estate tycoon, coined the expression: ‘There are three things that matter in real estate: location, location,...
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17.4KAmazon.sa launches in Saudi replacing Souq
Amazon and Souq have today announced the launch of Amazon.sa in Saudi to replace Souq.com. The move comes a year after Amazon...
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21.9KNoon launches NowNow, a 60-minute on-demand grocery and essentials delivery platform
Noon, the Dubai and Riyadh based ecommerce company has quietly launched an on-demand grocery and essentials delivery platform NowNow in Dubai. The...
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17.7KThe curse of VC money and unsustainable growth in consumer startups
Following the global economic meltdown of 2008, central banks around the globe loosened their monetary policies, embarking on a money-printing frenzy and...
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23.6KEcommerce post-Covid-19: Few winners and many losers
Churchill once said: ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste,’ and Covid-19 was the perfect crisis for ecommerce. Once suffering from...
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10.2KCovid-19: Grocery startups in MENA witness big surge in online orders as people stay indoors due to Coronavirus
Coronavirus has changed the world we are living in (for now at least). It has made its way to about 180 countries,...
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8.9KDirect-to-Consumer (D2C) opportunities in MENA: The time is right
Value creation in the consumer-goods industry has historically been centered around economies of scale and high barriers of entry in distribution and...
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9.7KNoon quietly kills free shipping with no minimum order requirement service in UAE
Noon has quietly killed its free shipping service with no minimum purchase requirement in the United Arab Emirates. The ecommerce company had...
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9.5KJumia’s stock has lost more than half of its value since going public six months ago, market cap is down to $520 million
Jumia, the ‘African’ ecommerce company that has its corporate headquarters in Dubai and operations in 14 African countries including Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia,...