Cellphone-based retail changing lives for 6,000 agents in Kenya
CEO Tim Steel says Copia is able to deliver a package at one-sixth of the price of any other best-in-class e-commerce business in the world
02 March 2020 - 12:35
Johannesburg/Nairobi — In the three years since becoming an agent for mobile e-commerce company Copia Global, Samuel Kihara has boosted revenue at his general store fivefold, opened a second shop, bought land and a truck and moved his children to private school.
“The commissions I earn as a Copia agent have been my working capital,” Kihara, said as he stood in green overalls at his small shop in Kawaida, a village 23km north of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. “All this has been possible due to money from the business.”..
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