{"id":21995,"date":"2023-03-10T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=21995"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:11:49","slug":"jumia-egypt-appoints-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/10\/jumia-egypt-appoints-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumia Egypt appoints CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nigeria-based e-commerce platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jumia.com.eg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jumia<\/a> has announced the appointment of Hisham ElGabry as the company\u2019s CEO in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mr ElGabry, who has been leading the company\u2019s commercial team as CCO since 2022, said on the occasion: \u201cI am proud to lead Jumia\u2019s team in the Egyptian market through the upcoming stage. And I am honoured to be part of Jumia\u2019s continued success in the Egyptian market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;E-commerce is growing very fast and Jumia Egypt will continue focusing on its unique strength points, most notably: striving for customer satisfaction, providing easy and safe payment methods, a strong partnership with local and international brands, banking services providers, as well as logistics partners. Most importantly, I am proud to be working with the Jumia Egypt talented team, in whom I have infinite confidence that we will together achieve our goals for the coming period.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In August, Amazon Egypt and Nigerian online marketplace Jumia joined the Medium Enterprise Development Agency to help young businesses market their products via their platforms. The collaboration allows\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SME<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0owners to display their products for a reduced commission charge. It also allows businesses to store their products for a year for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/08\/26\/egypts-msmeda-partners-with-online-platforms-to-promote-small-businesses\/\">Jumia Egypt<\/a> was ranked as one of the top 10 influential brands and the number one retail e-commerce platform in Egypt by Ipsos in 2021 and 2022. The company employs more than 1,000 employees in Egypt, connecting consumers to more than 7,000 local vendors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2019, Jumia operates in 11 countries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce platform Jumia Egypt has appointed Hisham ElGabry as CEO <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,1],"tags":[4792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21995\/revisions\/21997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}