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Company Updates
aCommerce Closes $65M Series B Led by KKR-Backed Emerald Media
The capital will be used to strengthen the company’s brand centric tech platform, develop strategic partnerships across the region and expand its local footprint to Malaysia and Vietnam
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“Having a strong partner like KKR and Emerald Media with their years of investment
experience in the region will provide capital and critical connections in content and
demand generation across Southeast Asia. We can provide our clients an even better level
of transparency and accountability hard to find elsewhere,” says Paul Srivorakul, aCommerce Co-Founder and Group CEO.
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Google Awards aCommerce with Global Search Innovation Award 2017
aCommerce becomes the only Southeast Asian company to win the 2017 Global Search Innovation Award beating over 4,000 official Google Partners
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The Premier Partner Awards is hosted by Google to recognize top digital marketing performance
worldwide that show technical expertise and commercial leadership. aCommerce joined winners from
across the world to be awarded at the Global Partner Summit on September 28, 2017 in New York City.
aCommerce is a Google Certified Partner for Google Adwords,
Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Data Studio.
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Client Updates
11.11 Update: aCommerce Clients Sell 4X GMV Compared to 2016
Best performing categories included cosmetics, electronics and baby products
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New Balance Captures 11.11 Craze with Official Shop in Shop by aCommerce
The American multinational corporation launched its athleisure wear on Lazada Singapore in time for Southeast Asia’s Online Revolution mega-sales
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Samsonite and Nestle Use aCommerce to Launch Official Marketplace Shops
The premium luggage maker and Swiss food and drink company both opened an official shop on Lazada Philippines earlier this month to sell its Red label and food/beverages products, respectively
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Unilever Uses aCommerce for E-Distribution for Multi-Channel Retail
The giant consumer products company in the Philippines will be selling Food and Homecare products on three shop in shops on Lazada Philippines, including Unilever Foods. Unilever Homecare, Unilever Pureit
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Puma Takes its Premium Golfing Products Online
The premium golfing brainchild by global sports brand Puma and manufacturer Cobra will be available online for the first time
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New exclusive line Puma Cobra successfully debuted over 1,000 items on
Lazada Singapore with aCommerce brand and supply chain services. Since its
launch in September, it has experienced a unique sales growth of 34% month
on month thanks to the active lifestyle of Singaporeans.
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Indonesia’s Largest Luxury Retailer Launches Online Platform
Masari Group will capture Indonesia’s most affluent demographic through an e-platform by aCommerce and follow in the footsteps of Alibaba, JD.com and LVMH taking luxury digital
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In 2016, sales of luxury goods in Indonesia grew by 84% from 2015,
recording the largest online luxury sales growth in Asia. To cater to
increasing demand, local luxury retail giant Masari Group has launched
40+ brands online, including Les Petits Joueurs, Loup Noir and Dorateymur,
using aCommerce brand site development and performance marketing.
The site went live on October 11.
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JBL in Thailand Goes Online Through Marketplace
The popular audio electronics company strengthens product distribution through aCommerce channel management on 11street and Shopee |
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Mahajak Development Co. Ltd., the sole distributor of JBL in Thailand,
will officially sell its highly coveted sound system products on marketplace
through aCommerce and tap into the potential $1.3 billion online opportunity.
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Largest Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Manufacturer in the Philippines Signs With aCommerce
Unilab aims to make healthcare accessible and affordable through online channels such as chat commerce
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Unilab PH has launched two webstores for its brands Hammer and Active
Health with the support of aCommerce after testing demand on its Facebook
pages through chat commerce. Successful online campaigns targeted athletes
and achieved over 100% of targets. Being one of the most popular marketing
tools to watch in 2017, chat commerce is expected to cut
costs by $8 billion by 2022.
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German Fashion Brand Kapten & Son Signs aCommerce for B2B Distribution
As the company’s Asia Pacific B2B distribution hub, aCommerce ships its highly coveted products to more than 10 countries
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Kapten & Son’s forage into B2C ecommerce in Asia was so successful, the company
decided to test B2B in October. The European brand is using aCommerce as a
consolidated shipping hub in Singapore to distribute its bags, watches
and sunglasses to resellers in Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.
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Big C Partners with aCommerce to Power Click & Collect
Affordable package shipping services are available at eight Big C Supercenter branches, with an additional 80 opening in early 2018
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Big C Supercenter introduces ‘Connectivity’, its new strategy to link up retail
networks across ASEAN with aCommerce. Merchants
can deliver goods to the hands of consumers within two days.
Facilitated by aCommerce shipping services that work with domestic
and international logistic players, sellers or shoppers can drop
their packages conveniently at any of Big C’s hypermarket branches
nationwide for reliable delivery.
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ecommerceIQ Completes First Executive Ecommerce Program with Thailand's Top Business School
Program participants included Index Living Mall, ofo, and Thai Airways
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ecommerceIQ, aCommerce market research arm, in partnership with Sasin Graduate Institute, Thailand’s top
business school, created the region's first executive ecommerce program to provide the fundamental knowledge and skills needed
to successfully run an ecommerce business in the world’s fastest
growing market. Last week, the executive class of 47 graduated.
Sign up for future classes and events by ecommerceIQ here.
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