{"id":60713,"date":"2015-12-28T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/jumia-nigeria-announces-juliet-anammah-as-new-ceo\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:19:18","slug":"jumia-nigeria-announces-juliet-anammah-as-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/jumia-nigeria-announces-juliet-anammah-as-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"JUMIA NIGERIA ANNOUNCES JULIET ANAMMAH AS NEW CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> LAGOS, Nigeria, December 28, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The e-commerce leader in Africa formalizes the appointment of Mrs Juliet Anammah at the head of Jumia Nigeria, Africa Internet Group\u2019s (AIG) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jumia.com.ng\/\">https:\/\/www.Jumia.com.ng<\/a>) biggest company on the continent. Juliet is taking over from former Co-CEOs Jeremy Doutte and Nicolas Martin, who are taking the reins of Jumia Global across the 11 African countries in which the group operates.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cJuliet brings strong leadership capacity and a consumer driven mindset honed from her experience in consumer goods and services\u201d said Jeremy Hodara, Co-CEO Africa Internet Group.\u201d As Jumia moves into a new phase of growth, consolidating on the gains so far, while driving for more relevance to our customers, Juliet\u2019s ability to focus sharply on the strategic levers of success is invaluable\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Jumia, Juliet Anammah was a Partner in Accenture and the Managing Director of the firm\u2019s Consumer Goods Practice in Nigeria. She focused during her later years in Accenture on the digital consumer and route to market for consumer goods companies. She brings to Jumia over 24 years of professional experience with six years at senior executive level. Passionate about \u201cAfrica rising\u201d and women advancement, Juliet serves on the board of many non-profit organizations involved in women development and trade expansion.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment marks a new phase of growth for Jumia Nigeria, emphasized by two key themes: the focus on the customer and the partnership of Jumia with its brands and its vendors, which will be the battlefield of the newly appointed CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy objective is to relentlessly focus on building the Jumia brand, making it the one-stop shopping\u00a0destination in Nigeria by offering convenience and the widest assortment of quality\u00a0products at affordable prices\u201d said Juliet Anammah. \u201cWe are building a platform for local\u00a0and global brands to enter the market at the speed of light by going directly from the factory to the consumers. This is a game changer for Nigeria and a major shift in the way companies look at their market entry strategy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS, Nigeria, December 28, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The e-commerce leader in Africa formalizes the appointment of Mrs Juliet Anammah at the head of Jumia Nigeria, Africa Internet Group\u2019s (AIG) (https:\/\/www.Jumia.com.ng) biggest company on the continent. Juliet is taking over from former Co-CEOs Jeremy Doutte and Nicolas Martin, who are taking the reins of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-60713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}