PRESS RELEASE
Facebook Team Visit Konga.com’s Headquarters As Konga Wins
CEAN Awards
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
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.
