Lafarge Zambia, the country’s longest-standing cement manufacturer, has signed an agreement with AfriDelivery, an e-commerce company to provide end-user customers with a digital platform when ordering cement and having it delivered to the customers home or business premises.
Customers will now be able to purchase Lafarge cement and have it delivered directly to their premises or construction sites, a move that is set to add value to the end user’s shopping experience.
According to a statement made available to the Zambian Business Times – ZBT on April 29, 2020 and issued by Lafarge Corporate Communications Manager Sarah Banda, the company’s new partnership with AfriDelivery is mainly to serve its clients who would like to purchase its products and have them delivered directly.
She said the partnership with AfriDelivery and its cement retailers goes a long way to give its end users a cost -effective and convenient digital solution for them to order, pay and have their cement swiftly delivered.
“For our business to thrive and to remain competitive, the company has tapped into digital solutions to understand our customers’ needs and preferences and to anticipate where the market pull is and to react to that. Thus, our partnership with AfriDelivery is timely and responds to our current situation of maintaining social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic,” She added.
Banda further said the that company’s goal is simply to make customers happy with world-class attention on trust and safety, adding that the shopping feature is designed to provide online shoppers across Lusaka with a smooth shopping experience from purchase to delivery.
Meanwhile, clients that have purchased products off the new shopping platform will receive their products within 2 hours upon purchase. The AfriDelivery App which is the enabler is available on both Android and iOS app store.
Lafarge Zambia has since pledged to continue contributing to the construction of cities and homes around the world, through innovative solutions as it owes its best efforts to the people of Zambia who have supported, believed, trusted and walked with the company for the past 70 years.
