{"id":5113,"date":"2012-02-02T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2012-02-02T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:58:18","slug":"bidorbuy-growth-plans-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/5113\/bidorbuy-growth-plans-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bidorbuy growth plans revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet auction website,\u00a0Bidorbuy<\/a> aims to strengthen its presence in Kenya and will boost its mobile presense in SA \u00a0in 2012 according to CEO Jaco Jonker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bidorbuy was launched by Andy Higgins in August 1999, and has since grown into one of South Africa most successful online ventures.<\/p>\n

Jonker took over as Bidorbuy CEO from founder Andy Higgins in September 2010, shortly after the company launched their Kenyan operations (June 2010).<\/p>\n

Things are looking good for the company. Jonker revealed that Bidorbuy showed around 30% growth in 2011, and that they expect the same level of growth in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cBidorbuy.co.za currently has almost 940,000 items listed on sale. That is an increase of about 90,000 items in less than two months. Every week, around 25,000 sales are concluded on the site,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the period leading up to Christmas, the toys category simply exploded. Antiques, jewellery, watches, collectible coins and stamps are constant favourites,\u201d Jonker added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe categories that recorded the fastest growth in 2011 are computers and electronics, with everything starting with an \u201cI\u201d \u2013 iPhones, iPads, iPods \u2013 leading the popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like most online businesses Bidorbuy is keen to see better and cheaper Internet connectivity to boost business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still waiting for the undersea cables to translate into more internet connections, better speed and lower prices for South Africans. Those fundamentals are crucial for an online business such as Bidorbuy is,\u201d said Jonker.<\/p>\n

The group plans to strengthen its presence in Kenya. \u201cThe initial response to bidorbuy.co.ke is very positive, although online shopping is still to become mainstream on the continent as a whole,\u201d said Jonker.<\/p>\n

On the local front mobile commerce is a key focus area. \u201cWe expect that South Africans will start shopping via their mobile devices in bigger numbers, so one of our focuses will be on mobile,\u201d said Jonker.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already rolled out a basic mobi site for older internet-enabled cell phones; a rich mobi site for state-of-art smartphones; and an iPhone application. This year, we\u2019ll concentrate on improving the user experience on mobile devices, whether they access our mobi sites or our main site.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will also be focusing on projects that will reduce the risk of fraudulent transactions, and customer satisfaction will be our main focal point,\u201d Jonker concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Online action portal, Bidorbuy, has seen strong growth over the last 12 months, and plans to boost their mobile and African presence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[1220,1218,26,1219],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-andy-higgins","tag-bidorbuy","tag-headline","tag-jaco-jonker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}