Wildberries to open pick-up points in 40 post offices across Armenia
Armenia’s national postal operator Haypost and Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries have signed today a memorandum of cooperation in Yerevan.
YEREVAN, December 27. /ARKA/. Armenia’s national postal operator Haypost and Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries have signed today a memorandum of cooperation in Yerevan.
The memorandum was signed by Haypost CEO Hayk Karapetyan and Wildberries LLC founder and CEO Tatyana Bakalchuk.
According to the memorandum, the parties will cooperate in e-commerce and postal services. Haypost branches will run pick-up points of Wildberries, which plans to invest a substantial amount into its Armenian business.
Together with Haypost it will build a joint logistics center. The parties will also build jointly a logistic chain for exporting goods through Wildberries network in other countries, which will also contribute to the sale of Armenian-manufactured goods through the network.
Bakalchuk noted that Haypost is becoming a strategic partner of Wildberries, and positive developments should be expected from this cooperation on both sides.
"Cooperation with Wildberries will serve as a very strong impetus for the development of e-commerce in Armenia. We have been working in this direction for a year already and in the first quarter of 2022 we will already have 40 Wildberries pick-up points in Haypost branches. It's very important that this biggest company use Armenian digital products in some spheres. It's not ruled out that many Armenian brands will be able to use the opportunities provided by Wildberries network," Haypost CEO Hayk Karapetyan noted.
The sides are expected also to use the digital solutions and products of Haypost's subsidiary iNovation in the Wildberries network.
Tatyana Bakalchuk has made it to the top of Forbes' list of Russia's richest women without any help from external investors.
According to Reuters, in 2021 Wildberiies expects an almost fivefold jump in net profit to 10 billion roubles ($136 million) from 2.1 billion roubles in 2020, and a rise in gross merchandise volume to more than 800 billion roubles, a record level. Forbes estimates Bakalchul holds assets worth $13 billion. -0-