{"id":33876,"date":"2013-03-19T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=33876"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T08:16:45","slug":"new-ceo-for-kalahari-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/33876\/new-ceo-for-kalahari-com\/","title":{"rendered":"New CEO for Kalahari.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online retailer, Kalahari.com<\/a>, has appointed Caren Genthner-Kappesz<\/a> as its new CEO, replacing Gary Novitzkas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Genthner-Kappesz has relocated to Cape Town from Berlin, with prior roles including a nine year stint at eBay<\/a> as general manager for shopping.com Germany, and as a director and GM for eBay Express Germany.<\/p>\n

The new SA online retail lead also worked as COO at brands4friends, an eBay subsidiary in Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very excited to have been given the opportunity to take Kalahari.com to the next stage of its development,\u201d said Genthner-Kappesz. \u201cMy goal for kalahari.com is not only to stay the clear market leader in South Africa but also to continue to be a pioneer and thought leader in the industry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Genthner-Kappesz said that although broadband access is still slightly more expensive compared to other parts of the world, South Africa is not far behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really believe that online and mobile shopping are changing people\u2019s lives for the best and with kalahari.com\u00a0 we want to continue driving that change in South Africa,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially with the significant rise of mobile in South Africa, we will put a great focus in bringing the best shopping experience to our customers and give them the opportunity to shop however they want \u2013 be it online, on a tablet or on a smartphone.”<\/p>\n

More on Kalahari.com<\/h3>\n

Kalahari.com reports big revenue spike<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Kalahari.com outlines SA shopping trends<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Bidorbuy expects strong online commerce growth in 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tablets driving online shopping<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lower prices, convenience lures SA shoppers online<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Strong SA e-commerce growth expected<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Online retailer Kalahari.com, has appointed Caren Genthner-Kappesz as its new CEO, replacing Gary Novitzkas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[5412,803,677,5411,26,3092],"class_list":["post-33876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-caren-genthner-kappesz","tag-ebay","tag-ecommerce","tag-gary-novitzkas","tag-headline","tag-kalahari-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33876"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33893,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33876\/revisions\/33893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}