Nigeria’s Jumia Black Friday event to run for 12 days

Online retail giant, Jumia Nigeria has announced that 2016 Black Friday sales event dubbed “Jumia Black Friday” will take place for 12 days-from Monday November 14th to Friday, November 25th 2016 on all Jumia websites – Jumia Mall Jumia Food, Jumia Car, Jumia Market, Jumia Travel, Jumia House and Jumia Deals .

The event will have increased sales inventory with up to 70% discount of regular prices and over 100,000 deals from 2,500 vendors.

This year’s Jumia Black Friday features an online giveaway for every customer who spends N10,000 and above. Lucky customer winners will win an iPhone 7, a PS4 console, two economy class Etihad tickets and two business class tickets.

“This year’s Jumia Black Friday is designed to offer our customers more days, more deals and more convenience and to deliver on better customer service to our shoppers,” said Juliet Anammah, CEO Jumia Nigeria.

During last year’s Jumia Black Friday that took place on November 27 2015, more than 2.3 million Nigerians visited Jumia. Following the impressive volume of orders during last year, this year’s sales event has been expanded to reach even more customers.

While commenting, the CEO Jumia Market, Sefik Bagdadioglu stated that “Jumia Black Friday is an exciting time for everyone in the Jumia Market community.   Our sellers can reach up to 15x their daily volumes in sales and our buyers will have incredible bargains to enjoy. An early Christmas!”

Top brands like AXA Mansard, MTN, Binatone, Innjoo, Infinix, Poly Star, HP, Intel, Etihad airways have partnered with Jumia to bring to Nigerians the largest shopping event of the year.