Manama, November 29 (BNA) The Bahraini Export Company and Talabat have signed a region-wide agreement to facilitate the export of products made in Bahrain across the Middle East and North Africa with the aim of improving trade and business for Bahrain-based SME exporters through online Talabat platforms.
The agreement, which was signed in ‘Talabat Kitchen’, a two-story cloud kitchen showcasing the future of food at Expo 2020, by Acting CEO of Export Bahrain Safaa Sharif Abdul Khaleq and General Manager of Talabat Bahrain Hisham Al Saati, marks the beginning of the organizations’ collaboration to support companies Small and medium located in Bahrain, business expansion and international growth.
The agreement provides for enhancing cooperation between the two sides to list companies located in Bahrain on Talabat Mart (T-Mart). The concept of quick commerce (q-commerce) of requests to deliver products to customers within 20 minutes, 24 hours a day. The agreement includes two tMart branches in Bahrain and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to provide companies with international coverage and better business opportunities in the region, in addition to encouraging restaurants in the Kingdom to franchise and expand into regional markets by supporting cloud kitchens in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
Since its inception, Export Bahrain has constantly sought to strengthen deals with key regional and international players in the industry, in pursuit of its goal of empowering exporters in Bahrain, with a special focus on small and medium enterprises, enabling them to gain access to growth. chances.
The signing of this agreement with Talabat serves this objective, as it provides a platform that gives regional exposure to SME exporters in Bahrain and allows them to showcase and deliver their products to customers across the MENA region.
This agreement will lead to strengthening cooperation that will positively reflect on the advancement of national exports and increase the contribution of this vital sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain.” Safaa Sharif Abdul Khaleq, Acting CEO of Bahrain Export Company.
“We are very excited to sign this partnership today. Over the past nine years, we have committed to developing a sustainable ecosystem for our vendors in Bahrain, and now we are very fortunate to be able to expand this ecosystem across international borders for the first time,” Talabat Bahrain General Manager Hesham Al said. watchmaker.
In Bahrain, we all know how good our products are made in Bahrain – to be able to help drive sales for our local Bahraini small and medium businesses, and to be able to see them in homes across the region. A very proud moment for us.”
Export Bahrain has facilitated more than $110 million worth of SME exports in the past three years, providing Bahraini SMEs with the necessary support to export more than 51 different categories of products and services across 10 sectors, facilitating their access to more than 56 market all over the world. GCC, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, UK, and US.
Talabat is one of the leading food and grocery delivery services in the Middle East and North Africa region. The company delivers hundreds of millions of orders of food, groceries and other products annually to customers in 9 countries across the region. It serves orders for 27,000 brands and nearly 50,000 branches, while its q-commerce concept, tMart, delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in 20 minutes or less.
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