Jackys Electronics Opens Doors To Customers On Souq.com

Souq.com, the region’s most widely trusted online marketplace, has opened an online store with Jacky’s Electronics on www.souq.com. The move signals a win for both customers and the electronics retailer, providing quick and convenient access to a wide range of Jacky’s Electronics’ brands.

With a customer base of over 1.5 million people across the MENA region and one technology item currently being sold every minute, Souq.com’s online stores are a valuable meeting place for the electronics retailer and its customers. Jacky’s has been quick to leverage the virtual footfall provided by Souq.com’s online stores – Souq.com is the MENA region’s largest shopping platform, attracting the greatest number of visitors. Customers enjoy easy access to the best deals available on new products, as well as a straightforward and secure way of browsing and purchasing goods.

Commenting on the retail initiative with Jacky’s Electronics, Souq.com’s CEO Ronaldo Mouchawar stated: “Souq.com is the online trade partner of choice for retailers. The company has pioneered the field of e-commerce in this region, to provide customers and retailers alike with a highly visible and effective place to conduct business.

“Companies, such as Jacky’s Electronics, recognise that creating a brand-sponsored store presence on Souq.com ensures that they are markedly enhancing their customer touch-points and driving their revenue channels,” continued Mr Mouchawar, “In choosing Souq.com, Jacky’s has expanded their business frontiers by partnering with the MENA region’s most trusted and expert online marketplace.”

Souq.com currently values the UAE online business to be worth USD $200 million – a figure which represents a striking opportunity for Jacky’s Electronics. “As experts in e-commerce, we’re confident that having an online presence on Souq.com will help us boost sales significantly,” said Ashish Panjabi, Chief Operating Officer, Jacky’s Group of Companies.

“Souq.com allows us to serve customers who live in areas where we don’t have a retail outlet by shipping directly to their doorstep with the assurances that Souq gives its customers vis-à-vis security etc. All products purchased on Souq.com will receive the same local warranty we give to products bought in stores, including after sales services.

“Opening a store on Souq.com is hassle-free and gives us access to a wider market and a large pool of loyal consumers. We look forward to enjoying a successful trade partnership with Souq.com and meeting our new, online customers,” Panjabi added.

Souq.com was established in 2005 to become the largest e-commerce site in the Arab world, today. Thousands of buyers and sellers meet daily to transact business over a trusted platform that offers both many payment options and delivery methods catered to the markets that the company serves. Since its inception, the company has quickly evolved to become the region’s leading and fully integrated online marketplace, reflected in recent accolades, such as the UAE’s E-Commerce Award and the Small Business Award.
 

Shop More At Jackys To Eat Free McDonalds Meals

Shopping for electronics and gadgets at Jacky’s Electronics for the holiday season will be more exciting with a free meal at McDonald’s.

A campaign dubbed ’Lovin’ it with Jacky’s’, will allow all customers buying products worth AED300 and above to get a free McDonald’s meal voucher. This promotion is valid only to the first 10,000 customers until the 1st of January 2011.

For every AED300 to AED599 spent at Jacky’s, one meal voucher will be provided to customers, while, customers buying products worth AED600 to AED999 are entitled to two meal vouchers. A purchase of products worth AED1000 to AED1499 entitles customers to three meal vouchers, whereas four meal vouchers will be provided to any customer that spends AED 1500 and above.

“Jacky’s partners with leading establishments to provide the best promotions to our loyal customers,” said Jimmy Patel, General Manager, Jacky’s Electronics. “Everyone loves to eat at McDonald’s and what a good way to end a shopping spree with a free burger or chicken meal,”

Special bundle offers in LCD TVs, mobile phones, digital cameras and home appliances are also up for grabs across all Jacky’s outlets in the UAE. Customers can also stay updated with the latest deals and promotions from Jacky’s Twitter page – www.twitter.com/jackysuae/ and Jacky’s Facebook page – www.facebook.com/jackysuae/.
 

Jacky’s Electronics Gears Up For Eid Retail Giant Partners With HP To Sizzle Up Shoppers

Jacky’s Electronics, the UAE’s number one multi-brand consumer electronics retailer, has rolled up an exciting promotion for customers looking for the best deals this Eid.

As more families are looking forward to Eid celebrations, Jacky’s is giving away Black & Decker kitchen appliances for every purchase of notebooks, mobile phones, digital cameras and LCD TVs. These special offers will be available to shoppers at all Jacky’s retail outlets until 30th September.

To make Eid extraordinary this year, Jacky’s also teamed up with HP to offer a range of great deals for its loyal customers. Cash back of AED150 to AED500 awaits anyone who purchases any HP notebooks and desktops until 30th September in all Jacky’s outlets.

“Eid is a time for joy and pleasure for all, elders and children alike. During the Eid days, families and friends exchange gifts to express well wishes, and we in Jacky’s would like to celebrate this joy with our loyal customers by giving them valuable gifts such as Black & Decker products,” said Ashish Panjabi, Chief Operating Officer, Jacky’s Electronics.

“Jacky’s and HP have provided the biggest promotions to our customers and with school starting shortly after Eid, we want to give the students latest gadget accessories courtesy of HP,” he added.

In addition, owners of HP laptops, either old or new, can avail of the free cover engravings being offered at HP Store-in-store in Jacky’s Dubai Mall outlet, on level 2, until end of this month. Furthermore, customers can redeem 30% discount on HP accessories, if they print vouchers from Jacky’s Facebook fan page and present them at this outlet.

At the same outlet, first 200 customers will get free giveaways from HP. As an exciting countdown to Eid, there will be a daily raffle draw to win seven HP Mini Netbooks.
 

Dubai Resident Wins Jacky’s Video Gaga Facebook Competition

Jacky’s Electronics, the leading electronics and entertainment store in the UAE, today named 13 aspiring singers as winners of the Video Gaga competition, hosted as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations.

The emirate-wide competition required participants to shoot and upload their video, singing a song of their choice, on Jacky’s Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/jackysuae.

The two-hour grand finale held at the Mirdif City Centre, inside the retail store of Jacky’s Electronics, saw City 101.6 RJs Lokesh and Malvika judging ten shortlisted finalists on their live performance.

Resident of Dubai, Loudyryan, was unanimously declared the judges’ and spectators’ choice for first place and awarded the grand prize of an XperiaTM X10 Android Smartphone.

Philippe El Nakour, Channel Marketing Manager, Sony Ericsson, and Jacky Panjabi, Managing Director, Jacky’s, gave away the prizes that included home theatre systems and Sony mp3 players for the runners-up.

Philippe El Nakour said: \\\”We have enjoyed a win-win relationship with Jacky’s and we will continue to support its marketing initiatives. Events such as the Video Gaga competition serve to take the shared synergy forward. We are particularly delighted that the competition drew a great deal of interest in the Xperia Smartphone from the specific consumer segment we are targeting for the product.\\\”

Jacky’s Electronics is the only electronics company to be awarded \\\”Superbrand\\\” status four times in a row by the UAE Superbrand Council.

 

Jacky’s Electronics Scoops Superbrand Award For Fifth Time

Jacky’s Electronics – the UAE’s leading chain of Electronics, Entertainment and Telecommunications stores – has for the fifth time scooped a Superbrand Award at a special ceremony held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Dubai Festival City.

“The award this year is especially sweet for us considering the fact that we’re receiving it a day before our 40th anniversary,” said Jacky Panjabi, Group Managing Director, who founded the Jacky’s Group of Companies on 21st July, 1970 in Hong Kong.

The Superbrands organisation is acclaimed worldwide as an independent authority and arbiter of branding excellence and is committed to paying tribute to exceptional brands and promoting the discipline of branding.

It defines a Superbrand as ‘one which offers consumers significant emotional and/or physical advantages over its competitors which (consciously or subconsciously) consumers want, recognise and are willing to pay a premium for’.

The Superbrands Council is comprised of individuals who have shown exceptional aptitude in business and who have a thorough knowledge of that particular country’s markets and methods of business. Its members produce a shortlist of candidate brands and the organisation then invites the CEO and Marketing Directors of those short-listed brands to vote for all the other brands, with the resulting top scoring brands being designated as Superbrands.

Reflecting on the award, Mike English, Director of Superbrands Middle East, said “I am delighted that Jacky’s has maintained its status as a Superbrand. The reason it has done so is quite simple. Jacky’s is consistent in its approach to business but, above all, in its approach to its customers. Jacky’s is a brand that is perceived as being an old friend and, more importantly, an old friend that always keeps its promises.
 

Jacky’s Marks 40 Year Anniversary With 40% Discounts

Jacky’s Electronics ­ the UAE’s leading chain of Electronics, Entertainment and Telecommunications stores ­ is celebrating its 40th anniversary by offering a staggering 40 per cent off from a selection of its most popular products over a four-day period.

The company started operations in Hong Kong in 1970, opening its first UAE retail showroom in Deira in 1988. Since then it has grown steadily and today has 12 outlets across the UAE.

The special discounts will be valid until July 24th 2010 and cover a wide range of products including Lenovo’s All-in-one Ideapad personal computer, BenQ’s VK3211 32” HD-ready television, Samsung’s 410-litre 2-door refrigerator, and Garmin’s Nuvi-250 GPS. Other special offers are likewise to be found on select cameras and mobile phones.

In addition to the special discounts, customers may receive surprise gifts with purchases such as meal vouchers, Spinney’s vouchers or scratch-and-win cards for free accessories.

Ashish Panjabi, Chief Operating Officer of Jacky’s Group of Companies, says that the special discounts are a fitting reward for Jacky’s customers to share in the special birthday celebrations.

“Since 1970, we have expanded simultaneously on several fronts ­ mail-order, retail outlets, distributorships, warehousing and logistics, as well as the development of ’Venus’, an in-house brand of domestic appliances,” says Panjabi. “More importantly, we have expanded into a wider arena, covering not just the UAE, but Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as well.

“These discounts are a way for us to say ‘Thank You’ to our customers for their patronage of Jacky’s over these forty years and for always letting us know what more they expect from us.”

“We have come a long way over the past four decades, and still have ambitious plans for our future. At the core of all this though, we still aim to serve ‘Customers from the heart’ which is a basic principle instilled in us by our Group Chairman, Mr. Jacky Panjabi. As we now look forward, to what more we have to achieve in the future, we do realize that such basic principles are evergreen and need to be a part of philosophy in the future as well,” Panjabi concluded.
 

Jacky’s Electronics’ Holds Video Gaga Competition For Facebook Fans

For a chance to win a Sony Ericsson XperiaTM X10 Android Smartphone and maybe even become the next singing sensation in the UAE, Jacky’s Electronics, in association with Sony Ericsson and contemporary Hindi music channel City 101.6, has launched Video Gaga – a music video competition amongst its Facebook fans in the UAE.

By filming a video of themselves singing any song of their choice in either English or Hindi, contestants – who must be 16 years old or above and a UAE resident – should then upload their entries on Jacky’s Facebook fan page – http://www.facebook.com/jackysuae. For existing Jacky’s Electronics’ Facebook fans as well as those who aren’t fans yet but would want to join the competition, they have until the 21st July 2010 to become a fan, and upload their videos.

Sony Ericsson’s XperiaTM X10 Smartphone, which runs on Google’s Android operating system, is already making waves in a growing line-up of Android smartphones. With a whopping 4-inch screen, the XperiaTM X10 also has an 8.1 megapixel camera, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a cool overlay.

Four finalists will be chosen from among all entries and will then be invited to sing one song each at the Grand Finale, which will be held at Jacky’s – Level 1, Mirdif City Centre at 6:00 pm on 22nd July 2010. The competition will be judged by City 101.6 RJs, along with the audience, and the winner will be awarded a Sony Ericsson XperiaTM X10 Android Smartphone on the spot.

Ashish Panjabi, Chief Operating Officer of Jacky’s Group of Companies, says: “Following our highly successful iPad competition, which we did through our Facebook fan page when the iPad was first launched, this social networking platform has indeed proven to be an excellent avenue for two-way communication with our customers.

“We had some really superb video entries the last time around, and we are presenting Jacky’s Electronics’ Facebook fans with another fun-filled and exciting competition, this time showcasing their singing talent and creativity, and offering them a chance to win and own one of the most sought after smartphones around at the moment – the Sony Ericsson XperiaTM X10 Android Smartphone.

“Personally, I cannot wait to see some of the entries and actually witness how many hidden talents in the UAE can get discovered,” Panjabi adds.
 

AED1-M Worth Of Free Meals Up For Grabs At Jacky’s Electronics In DSS

This summer season, Jacky’s Electronics, the UAE’s leading multi-brand electronics retailer, is giving away AED1 million worth of free meal vouchers from Americana Group’s line of food outlets across the UAE.

Customers buying products worth AED 399/- and above at any Jacky’s outlets in Dubai, from June 1 to July 11, will receive a free meal voucher. In this promo, anyone can enjoy free treats from a simple coffee or ice cream to any favourite pizzas, burgers, quesadillas or chicken meals at KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardees, Taco Bell and Krispy Kreme during the entire Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) period.

“Every summer, we have always been providing our loyal customers with innovative promotions that are of value and that can be enjoyed as well. Last year, our summer promotion was successful when we also gave away meal vouchers. This year by partnering with Americana we are giving our customers a wider choice to enjoy free meals from their favourite food outlets,” said Jimmy Patel, General Manager, Jacky’s Electronics.

In line with the FIFA World Cup season, Jacky’s Electronics has also introduced a new scheme ‘World Cup to World Cup Warranty’, a free 4-year warranty valid until the next world cup on any TVs ranging from 32” and above. This amazing offer will entice and benefit most customers who shop with Jackys.

“The four year warranty is a real value-add as most manufacturers provide one or two years warranty and here our customer will be at peace of mind for four years. This exclusive offer is only at Jacky’s and is at no extra cost to the consumer,” Patel added.

A Grundig 42” LCD TV awaits patrons of any Americana Group food outlets who will visit any Jacky’s outlets during DSS. The company is also giving away 40” Samsung LCD TVs to patrons of Shakespeare & Co., The Irish Village & The Aviation Club and frequent bowlers at the Dubai International Bowling Centre in Al Mamzar.

“We also have a special promotion on notebooks from 3rd June to 17th July, wherein we are giving away accessories worth up to AED500. Customers can choose a wide range of accessories ranging from keyboard, mouse, headset, laptop cases, external hard drives, routers, chargers, notebook batteries, etc ,” Patel said.

Furthermore, Jacky’s has also partnered with Spinneys Supermarket on special promotions and gift vouchers for purchases of major domestic appliances. Jacky’s has also tied up with a whole array of banks such as ADCB, Emirates-NBD, Mashreq and HSBC where credit cardholders can avail the 0% instalment schemes. Citibank cardholders are also entitled to extra discounts on purchases at selected outlets.

There will also be exciting bundle offers across various products categories especially on laptops, DSLR cameras and smart phones. Customers can also keep in touch with Jacky’s via www.twitter.com/jackysuae on Twitter, as well as on www.facebook.com/jackysuae on Facebook where promotion details will be updated and customer queries can also be answered.