Kilimall: E-commerce firm targets local market with drones delivery

Kilimall’s Training & Delivery project aimed at delivering packages to your doorstep by "quadcopter" mini-drones within 30-minute delivery time

Kilimall has entered into the E-Commerce Kenyan Market with a difference. They have revealed a highly technologized Training and Delivery project: “Quadcopter” drones that will fly packages directly to your doorstep in less than 30 minutes.

This Quadcopter is usually referred to as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System (UAVs). Its flight is controlled either autonomously by on board computers or by the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle.

It’s an audacious project that Kilimall believes requires more safety testing and government approvals, but estimates that delivery-by-drone, will be available to customers in the near future. Kilimall has already acquired this amazing gadgets for testing purposes.

Kilimall is Kenya’s first online shopping mall. It is a platform that offers the widest variety of products and from the widest variety of merchants both in the country and from other countries in different parts of the world.

Kilimall’s vision is to empower 30 million Kenyans with high quality and affordable products and services, support 100 thousand businesses through their infrastructure and to create half a million jobs through their operational systems. To achieve this vision, Kilimall is exploring and researching on how technology can be used to holistically drive change through youth capacity-building and opportunity creation.

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KILIMALL ENTERS KENYA’S ONLINE SHOPPING IN STYLE!

E-Commerce is increasingly gaining momentum with great potential to expand markets, productivity and competitiveness.

Kenya’s competitive edge is Agriculture, Manufacturing, Tourism (Tours & Travels), Arts and Handicrafts, Hotels and Restaurants and Shipping sectors.

There are indicators that e-Commerce would pick up very fast in the country as there is increased awareness. There is an increase in internet connectivity and internet users every day.

E-commerce has been a preserve of the big players. While online shopping has become the easiest way of shopping, Kilimall has entered Kenya this market with a difference.

Whereas other multinational and local markets focus on wealthy class of customers and merchants, Kilimall is embracing both local and giant merchants, providing free online shop stores for them.

Interestingly, Kilimall is focusing on uplifting local entrepreneurs, building a wealth of merchants and customers.

 

For smaller distributors, opening and maintaining an online shopping platform is not only expensive but fairly technical.