Exciting news! Hellofood is now Jumiafood

After years of its successful operations in Ghana, Ghana’s premiere and award winning online food ordering and delivery platform Hellofood has since June 23, 2016 moved to join a larger family - the Jumia family, formerly known as the Africa Internet Group.

In a statement made by the Managing Director of Jumiafood, Mr. Sofiène Marzouki said that the online food ordering market place was committed to bringing its customers variety and convenience, thus the decision to make it even easier for cliens to discover great products and services.

“Hellofood and the Jumia family are getting closer now as Hellofood has become Jumia Food. As a Jumia Food user, you are a click closer to Jumia, Jumia Market (previously Kaymu), Jumia Travel (previously Jovago), Jumia House (previously Lamudi) and Jumia Car (previously Carmudi). He assured users of the app that nothing will change in the food ordering experience, except the name and the offering of online services to clients,” he added.

Mr. Marzouki in welcoming clients to the Jumia family said, “when you see other Jumia products and services across Africa, you know they're coming from a family you can trust. We are happy to welcome you again to the family! Jumia Food, The food you love, delivered fast.”

The Jumia family offers for lots of online services including buying fashion and electronics products, making bookings for travels, finding real estate or landing a job.

Don’t forget the offer still remains, Use the voucher code; hf20pr to enjoy 20% off your orders and it will be delivered right at your door step.  

JUMIA BECOMES THE ONE STOP ONLINE DESTINATION IN AFRICA

Africa Internet Group on Thursday, June 23, 2016 connected its companies into Jumia’s ecosystem with a new vision, "Expand your horizons". The new Jumia ecosystem will give access to products and services from its 8 leading platforms.

After 4 years of successfully establishing and growing its online services as leaders in their markets, Africa Internet Group, now Jumia, has become the N°1 E-commerce platform in Africa.

Jeremy Hodara

“We founded our companies with a very strong belief: Internet can improve people’s lives in Africa. Uniting all services allows us to better help our customers fulfill their daily aspirations. This is all possible because people connect to our platform to access those services and products in an environment that we have designed for them, addressing their needs and expectations on quality, choice, price, trust and convenience.” said Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, founders and co-CEOs of Jumia.

People can now find on Jumia all their needs ; branded products with Jumia [ fashion and electronics with Jumia (Previously Jumia and Kaymu)], local sellers with Jumia Market (Previously Kaymu), hotel booking with Jumia Travel (previously Jovago), food delivery with Jumia Food (Previously Hellofood), classifieds with Jumia Deals(Previously Vendito), Jumia House (Previously Lamudi) and Jumia Car (Previously Carmudi), and lastly logistics services with Jumia Services (Previously AIGX).

Sacha Poignonnec

Furthermore, sellers will also benefit from this move, by getting access to more traffic and to a greater world of opportunities. Every day, Jumia helps and encourages restaurants, hotels, local sellers, brands, real estate agents, car dealers, large companies and logistic companies to become better, bigger, more performant, thus creating positive impact for Africa.

The founders reiterated that, “Operating under the same brand name reinforces the legitimacy of proposing other services to our customers and to our sellers. We want to have one strong brand that is trusted and loved by our customers across Africa”.
Jumia’s new vision, “Expand your horizons”, expresses the group’s ambition to transform people’s lives through internet, overcoming the ground market challenges of the continent and giving all Africans the opportunity to access high quality services and products everywhere.

About Jumia
Jumia aims at creating a connected digital Africa to improve people’s lives on the continent, thanks to the Internet. Therefore, Jumia’s mission is to connect African consumers and entrepreneurs to do better business together. Founded in 2012, with a presence all over Africa, the group has MTN, Rocket Internet, Millicom, Orange & Axa as investors. Jumia has been creating a sustainable ecosystem of digital services and infrastructures through online and mobile marketplaces and classifieds to expand your horizons.

Hellofood Wins Mobile App of The Year Again

For the second year in a row, Hellofood has won at the Ghana Information Technology & Telecom Awards, formerly known as the Ghana Telecom Awards.

In the category for ‘Best Mobile App of the year’, where OLX, Tonaton, Jumia, SlydePay and Hellofood where nominated, the online food ordering platform gained the upper hand.

During the event, that took place at the newly built Kempinski Hotel in Accra, 44 awards were given out to the change makers and leaders of the telecom, IT and e-banking sector.

Sofiène Marzouki, Managing Director of Hellofood Ghana, expressed his gratitude upon winning his second consecutive award: “I am honored to collect the award for the second time. We have consistently improved our service, making Hellofood one of the fastest growing startups in Africa. We will continue to focus on adding value to our customers and the online ecosystem. We have emphasized this year on internal optimization and have proven that the addition of real-time tracking on the app, automation during the entire process of the order and a solid customer experience are accretive for Hellofood and the e-commerce industry in Ghana. I would like to thank the entire Hellofood team for their hard work to achieve this and our patrons for allowing us to provide them our service every day”.

Hellofood is an online and mobile platform where customers can order food from the most popular restaurants in their cities. Since its launch in 2013, HelloFood has already expanded to all key African markets and attracted more than 100 independent restaurants and international chains as partners in Ghana.

Customers can order their favourite types of food in Accra, and look to Hellofood for a wide choice of cuisines and price points. Already the number one player in all of its African markets, Hellofood delivers flawless user experience and a flexible ordering process that includes iPhone and Android apps.

Hellofood Ghana Begins Bicycle Delivery

Hellofood has become the first e-commerce business in Ghana to introduce the use of bicycle for food delivery.

In February 2016, the food delivery market place begun a test on how efficient it will be to use bicycles to deliver orders made by costumers through the Hellofood app. Costumers in and around Osu were the first to experience the bicycle delivery.

Receiving an overwhelming positive response from clients, Hellofood Ghana in May has begun a large scale use of bicycles to deliver clients’ orders made from restaurants close to their place of residence.

Sharing more light on the use of bicycles for delivery, Mr. Sofiene Marzouki, Country Managing Director of Hellofood Ghana explained that the decision to adopt bicycle delivery became necessary considering the rise in cost of living. With the continuous increase in the price of fuel in Ghana, it has become necessary to explore other media to make life much easier. “We always place our clients first, and do not want to increase their financial burden, knowing the economic hardship facing most Ghanaians,” he said. He assured clients of prompt and safe delivery of their meal.

With the adoption of the bicycle delivery system, Hellofood Ghana is expected to provide jobs for about 30 more young people in Accra.

Hellofood is the first food ordering and delivery platform in Ghana and the app is available on both android and IOS.

SKINNED TO PREMIERE AT SILVERBIRD

“Skinned” a movie that seeks to educate, about the effects of skin bleaching, as well as entertain its audience, is set to be premiered at the Silverbird cinemas in the Accra Mall and West Hills Mall on Friday, June 10, 2016.

Directed by LisaRaye McCoy, “Skinned” is a character-driven drama about a young lady, Jolie, whose insecurities about her skin color, misconception about beauty, and search for romance causes her to bleach her skin beyond recognition, the catalyst to a series of health issues she encounters. The docu drama stars Jasmine Burke (Drum Line 2), Brad James (Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse), Ghallywood’s celebrated actor, Van Vicker and a host of other actors and actresses.

“Skinned,” a 1 Hour, 30 minutes long movie, is a Studio 11 films production jointly produced by Dr. Clarice Kulah, Lotten Yeaney, Sharon Tomlinson and Van Vicker.

Tickets for the premiere sell at GHs 30 at the Silverbird Cinemas at the Accra Mall and West Hills Mall. 

Hellofood wins GHANA TELECOM AWARD

Hellofood Ghana, your number one online platform for food ordering and delivery in Ghana has yet again won an award. 

Hellofood received the award as the winners for Best Mobile App Company of the Year category during the 5th edition of the Ghana Telecom Awards.

In all, about thirty (30) different categories are being rewarded for achievements by the various deserving companies. In the Mobile App Company of the Year category, there were other nominees such as OLX, Leti Arts, MPower payments and MobiHelp.

This prestigious award which is held for ICT players has become the benchmark for outstanding performances throughout the industry and symbol of excellence to mark leadership, quality and innovation.

Hellofood is an online platform that allows customers to order from their favorite restaurants in and around their vicinity. The App allows customers to order for food from morning (breakfast) through to evening (dinner). It is designed to cater for customers who want to eat from their favourite restaurants but are too busy to go there. For those that want to order from the comfort of their homes or offices without having to move through stress, Hellofood is your way out. All that one needs to do is to either visit the official website www.hellofood.com.gh or download the App from Google Store, Apple Store or even if you are a Windows user.

On his part, the Country Manager of Hellofood Ghana, Sofiène Marzouki, expressed joy upon receiving the award. "We are proud that our hard work has been rewarded. The app is built upon international standards and tailored to Ghanaian values. We will continue to listen to our stakeholders and put convenience, reliability and efficiency at the forefront of our operations to provide the ultimate customer experience. When you think about food, at home or at work, you think about Hellofood."

Currently, Hellofood is available to customers within the Accra Metropolis, and is soon to be extended to other parts of the region.

This year's winners celebrated a black tie awards ceremony and gala, at Movenpick Hotel, Accra, together with other top notch ICT professionals gracing the occasion.

For further information:
Kwabena Kusi-Fordjour
Head of Communications
Hellofood Ghana
kwabena.fordjour@hellofood.com.gh
026-803-3389 / 020-911-9677

#FreeFacebook Launched

At a fun filled event held at the forecourt of Accra Mall, Airtel Ghana launched its new product, #FreeFacebook on Airtel. The new product allows Airtel users free access to Facebook and some web pages. The well-attended event witnessed a couple of performances and the audience receiving a lot of giveaways.  

In a televised message, Madam Lucy Quist, the MD of Airtel Ghana, exhibited a lot excitement at the launch of the new product. She said that Facebook is the most visited site in Ghana and number one place for business people thus, the reason for the company being proud to offer Facebook at no fee to its customers. She also informed the public that aside free Facebook, Airtel was also offering other web pages that hold a lot of information to the public for free.

Madam Quist encouraged the public to grab Airtel sim cards so as to enjoy the experience the company was offering.

In a post on his page, Mark Zuckerberg, inventor of Facebook posted, “Today we're launching Internet.org in Ghana, giving people on the Airtel network access to free basic internet services for education, health, jobs and communication.

Right now only about 12% of people in Ghana are connected to the internet, but connectivity is already improving people's lives and communities.

By connecting everyone, we hope to unlock even more opportunities for Ghana.”

Expressing excitement for the feat achieved, Mark Zuckerberg added, “Ghana is the fifth country we’ve connected through Internet.org after Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Colombia.

Thank you to our community for your support and for pushing to bring Internet.org to more countries as we continue on our path to connect the whole world.”

Aside being the Ghanaian company with the largest following on Facebook and the first to offer free Facebook, Airtel also becomes the first network to offer pages such as Jobberman, Tonaton Wikipedia, Accu Weather and GhanaWeb for free on internet.org.