RIYADH — Jollychic, the world's leading online shopping platform, in conjunction with the Black Friday events on Nov. 29, launched JollyFriday in Saudi Arabia and the GCC, which runs throughout November, in the first of its kind for an electronic shopping platform.

The JollyFriday event includes exclusive offers and special discounts of up to 80%. The offer includes all the products on the platform, most notably electrical appliances, electronics, clothing, personal care products, beauty, accessories and other exclusive items prepared for sale this month.

JollyFriday activities include free gift coupons under the slogan "Guaranteed price and high quality", where the company offers customers the possibility to return goods and products in the event of a better selling price for the same product in any other platform, as part of the company's new strategy to expand the company's network Globally, whether at the level of partners or users, providing diverse and exclusive products of high quality to customers in the Gulf, enhancing the credibility of exclusive offers, and direct communication with users without barriers, directly and instantaneously.

The new open marketplace platform launched by the company three months ago has been a remarkable success with the sales of merchants through the platform achieved the full mark in the sale of goods and products in Saudi Arabia and the region. Suppliers, whether entrepreneurs, small and medium enterprises or major brands to digitally market their products without the need to expand the network of traditional branches, to ensure the achievement of benefits and rewards for all parties, up to now over 1000 Saudi sellers have signed up to sell their products online.

The Jollychic sellers platform open plan witnessed a rapid growth in sales, numbers and quantities of products and commodities on display, reaching about 90% per month, rising to 100% at the end of the fourth quarter of 2019, as a direct result of the expansion platform projects. Of total platform sales over 3 years.

The Kingdom is one of the top 10 countries in the growth of e-commerce globally, by more than 32% and trades amounting to more than 80 billion riyals annually, as Internet users reached more than 29 million people, and increased Internet services in the Kingdom to 82%, while the Kingdom controls 45% of e-commerce in the Middle East. — SG