uAfrica announces Kalahari, Yuppiechef, Zando among SA’s best ecommerce sites of 2014

One of Southern Africa’s leading ecommerce companies, uAfrica, today announced the winners of the six award categories highlighting the best in the online retail space at the eCommerce Awards held at the eCommerce Conference 2014.

The eCommerce Conference is designed to help people keep up to date with the latest trends in ecommerce, present the best the world of ecommerce has to offer, and of course, to be able to network and share business ideas with industry colleagues.

As part of this annual culmination of industry thought leaders and SME business owners, uAfrica also host the eCommerce Awards which acknowledges SME’s that have been successful in the online retail space as voted by uAfrica’s some 116 000 survey respondents.

“We have been overwhelmed by the response to our survey and are thrilled to be able to congratulate our entrants, finalists and winners — the fact that they have formed part of this survey at all, means that they are contributing to an industry that related business thought leaders are expecting exponential growth from,” said Andy Higgins, Managing Director of uAfrica.

“The eCommerce Conference has been a huge success and uAfrica would like to thank the sponsors takealot.com, Shopify, PayPal and eSolutions,” he added.

Winners of each of the categories include:

South Africa’s Favourite eCommerce Website:
Winner: kalahari.com
First Runner Up: takealot
Second Runner Up: Groupon

Best eCommerce Store:
Winner: Yuppiechef.com
First Runner Up: Zando
Second Runner Up: takealot.com

Best Shopping Process:
Winner: Zando
First Runner Up: Yuppiechef.com
Second Runner Up: takealot.com

Best Customer Service:
Winner: Zando
First Runner Up: takealot.com
Second Runner Up: Mantality

Best eCommerce Services Platform:
Winner: bidorbuy
First Runner Up: TravelGround
Second Runner Up: Groupon

Best Small eCommerce Business:
Winner: Poetry
First Runner Up: Babylife
Second Runner Up: Seeds for Africa

For all those shortlisted, click here. For a list of the previous winners take a look on the official website.