Facebook Team Visit Konga.com’s Headquarters As Konga Wins CEAN Awards
Thursday, January 30, 2014Omoba
In an obvious show of
how fast-paced Konga.com is progressing as an emerging ecommerce powerhouse in
Nigeria and Africa at large, a 12 member team of the social media giant,
Facebook.com, paid a courtesy visit to Konga.com offices on the 28th January,
2014.
Leading the delegation
of social media gurus, Nichola Mendelsohn; Head of Facebook, Europe, Middle
East and Africa, met and addressed the Konga leadership and Marketing team,
where she highlighted the role and importance of Konga as a success story with
a reputation that has gone beyond local shores but quickly gaining traction
around Africa despite having only being in existence for less than 2 years.
The team were really
interested in how Konga has been able to stamp its footprint in Nigeria in such
a short time with plenty of positive feedback coming from users on Facebook
Adding further, she
also emphasized their admiration and satisfaction for the successful execution
of Konga’s Black Friday/Cyber Friday-Fall Yakata and Konga’s Christmas
Campaigns while expressing their desire to further strengthen Facebook’s
relationship with the Konga brand with mutually beneficial partnerships that
would help the brand and over 12 million active people using Facebook in
Nigeria as a whole.
COO of Konga.com, Alex
Kamara on behalf of the Konga team thanked the Facebook team for taking out time
to visit and talked about how Konga always goes where its users love to go. He
also spoke about some of the initiatives that Konga has planned for its users
in the coming year.
This past weekend,
Konga was also honored by the Creative Entrepreneurs of Nigeria with an award
for excellence at a Gala night that was held at the British council gardens.
The event had Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for
Economy, Dr Okonjo Iweala and Dr Andrew Pocock, the British High Commissioner
to Nigeria in attendance.
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