Daraz cuts the ribbon on 7-day Great Online Shopping Mela!

The Great Online Shopping Mela (GOSM) has unleashed its amazing line-up of discounts up to 67%, flash sales and brand vouchers upon online shoppers amongst much fanfare and festivity. The event lasts 7 Days, each day unlocking flash sales and irresistible discounts for a dedicated category. Daraz has on-boarded three bank partners for the event - (Easypay/JazzCash/Silkbank) and is also serving up bank discounts onMeezan Fridays and UBL Wednesdays. The event also featuresDaraz-exclusive Brand vouchers not to forget free-shipping applicable site-wide!!!

What makes GOSM stand apart from a run-of-the-mill sale event? It’s the way this mela brings together a dream team of key players in media, fashion tech and lifestyle together, under one tent. It is the way Daraz has partnered up with multiple stakeholders in the digital domain to optimize customer experience and convenience. It’s a fully integrated sales event that has synergized with numerous corporate interests to deliver shoppers a holistic, brand-integrated shopping experience.

Daraz Managing Director, Zain Suharwardy, enthused: We’re so proud to be pitching this digital tent in partnership with some amazing brands and digital partners. It’s a pretty high-power brand wall, and we’re proud to have put it together one digital brick at a time. Here’s to scaling ever more walls and reaching greater heights in our attempt to galvanize e-commerce.

Flash Sales: Now you see ‘em, now you don’t!

GOSM features 16 Flash Sales in total, during which Daraz will unlock specific categories and hand customers the keys to amazing deals! Daraz Flash Sales provide shoppers a window of three hours within which to avail amazing discounts. Flash Sales are category-specific. The first Flash Sale on Phones & Tablets is scheduled for 9 PM on the 15^th of September! Daraz fans are advised to keep their eyes and ears peeled for pre-flash sale announcements.

Mega Deals that’ll give you mela feels!

GOSMalso brings its customers mind blowing mega deals on the most sought after products ranging from phones, electronics and to fitness machines and appliances. Just some of the amazing deals include the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus which is now only for Rs 11,899, the Sony Play Station 4 Slim which is for Rs 29,999, the Kenwood Glow Series Inverter Air Conditioner which has come down to just Rs 39,499 and the HP EliteBook 840 G1 which has an epic 55% discount and is now only for Rs 28,999.

Digital Partners offering Brand Vouchers: More brand for your buck!!!

GOSM shoppers can get a flat 20% discount on their favorite hotels across Pakistan the next time they make a booking on Jovago. Jovago’s offer stands against ALL their hotel listings and is valid till the 31^st of September. There’s aCareem available for every occasion and destination with Careemoffering GOSM shoppers a Discount Voucher for a 100 Careem Credits! GOSM shoppers can get a Rs. 500/-FoodpandaGift Voucher for orders from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. This offer is applicable to first-time users only.Find My Doctor is Pakistan’s first online healthcare service, letting users book doctors’ appointments from the comfort of their home. GOSM shoppers can enjoy a Discount Voucher of 15% on Home Lab Tests and General Physician Consultations the next time they make a booking through Find My Doctor.Paxiempowers women by affording them unprecedented freedom of movement through their by-women, for-women taxi service – Paxi, The Pink Taxi. GOSM shoppers can avail a 10% discount vouchers off their next ride with Pink Taxi. More power to pink!Pizza Hut has legions of fans and is world-famous for its hot, piping pizzas.All Daraz fans who partake of GOSM festivities and shop online can enjoy a 20% OFF flat Discount Voucher the next time they order on https://www.pizzahut.com.pk/home/. Founded in 2003, PakWheels.com has become Pakistan’s premier Automotive Portal. Daraz GOSM shoppers can look forward to availing a 20% Discount on Featured Ad packages on PakWheels. PakWheels is also offering a 20% Discount on CarSure Used Car Inspection.

Payment Partners:

As per Daraz sale custom, The Great Online Shopping Mela (GOSM) is bringing additional discounts in partnership witheasypay (up to 20% OFF),JazzCash (up to 10% OFF) andSilkbank (up to 20% OFF). Daraz continues to populate its payments ecosystem with a host of payment options for avid online shoppers.

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HUAWEI’s Kirin 970 revolutionary benefits for users

HUAWEI, the global technology leader unveiled a new era in smartphone innovation at the IFA 2017. Not only did CEO Richard Yu share HUAWEI's vision for the future, but he also launched the all new Kirin 970 Chipset with built-in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Kirin 970 is expected to launch in October, with the upcoming flagship device – HUAWEI Mate 10.

HUAWEI is committed to developing smart devices into intelligent devices by building end-to-end capabilities that support coordinated development of chips, devices, and the cloud. The ultimate goal is to provide a significantly better user experience.

Built with the most advanced 10nm process, Kirin 970 integrates 5.5 billion transistors in a single sq cm. The Kirin 970 combines an octa-core CPU, dual ISP, a 12-core GPU, and a high-speed 1.2Gbps Cat.18 modem. The Kirin 970's development team introduced a new innovative HiAI mobile computing architecture with a dedicated The Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU), which delivers an AI performance that far surpasses any CPU/GPU build.

The Neural-network Processing Unit (NPU), embedded in the revolutionary Kirin970 will focus on artificial intelligence tasks linked to the cloud and on the device for real-time calculations from end to end. Compared to Central Processing Unit (CPU), the NPU's performance is 25x more, whereas its efficiency is 50x. Basically,The Neural-network Processing Unit(NPU) can make a smartphone truly know and understand its users, supporting real-time image recognition, voice interaction and intelligent photography with ease.

Richard Yu - CEO of HUAWEI’s Consumer Business stated: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to propel the intelligent development of smart devices to the next level. Instead of passively responding to user needs, AI will sense our mood and environment, and proactively offer new ways for us to interact with the world around us through targeted services.”

HUAWEI is rapidly emerging as an innovative industry leader within the electronics and telecommunications arena, aiming to deliver exceptional services to the rapidly expanding segment of smartphone users in Pakistan, who seek powerful global connectivity.

Daraz brings the industry together for The Great Online Shopping Mela - a shopathon like no other

Daraz.pk, Pakistan’s largest online marketplace, is proud to present The Great Online Shopping Mela (GOSM). GOSM is about bringing people, technology and shopping together in one exciting, multi-layered event! Par the course for the ecommerce leader, Daraz is not only assembling exciting deals, flash sales and discounts up to 67% for GOSM, it’s going all the way in integrating the event in partnership with GroupM.

The Great Online Shopping Mela will break new ground in digital advertising and ecommerce and is expected to generate significant buzz both online with great surprises expected from event sponsors the likes of Unilever, Nestle, L'oreal, Pepsi, Chevron, WB Hemani and more. Joining the event is also an ensemble of digital partners including Careem, Foodpanda, PakWheels, Jovago, Pink Paxi, Find My Doctor and Pizza Hut.

In the words of Daraz Managing Director Zain Suharwardy, “It’s 2017 and we can no longer speak of the lives we lead online as separate from our offline reality. The two are increasingly married to the other. And that’s the theme of The Great Online Shopping Mela: celebrating the various ways online shopping and internet culture bring joy, convenience and connection to our lives.It’s about recognizing the role ecommerce plays in spreading joy in a spontaneous way. We will work with partners across the ecosystem, from financial services, media, telecoms, top brands, fashion and apps to maximize e-commerce impact.”

Daraz collaboration with digital marketing leader GroupM is an especially attractive prospect for advertisers and concerned stakeholders.

Chief Marketing Officer Daraz, HamaadRavda commented saying, “The Great Online Shopping Mela will break new ground in getting top brands even further invested in ecommerce and digital marketing including Facebook and Google advertising solutions.  Against the backdrop of rising internet penetration and teledensity, the importance of digital in the media mix today is inestimable and GOSM provides an opportunity for top brands to test out and scale their efforts in e-commerce.”

Why this is a mela you don’t want to miss
Daraz.pk has a tried, tested and and proven track record when it comes to delivering large scale events that galvanize its large consumer base en masse. Events like Black Friday, Mobile Week and the Independence Day Sale average millions of sessions and deliver incredible sales multiples for sellers.
According to a report published in April this year, every minute, 26 Pakistanis access the internet for the first time. By 2020, over 65 million will have 3G and 4G/LTE on their phones. An estimated 89% of the Pakistani population will be mobile subscribers by 2020. With 60% of the population below the age of 30, the future of e-commerce is in young, energetic hands, eager to ride the crest of digitization. The past two years alone have seen ecommerce grow 300% per year. Young blood is coursing through the fibre optic veins of Pakistan.
GOSM is one part a celebration of these new, exciting realities and two parts an attempt to accelerate these developments further.

“Ecommerceconnectivity has real-world impact. With GOSM, we aspire to let Pakistan know: Daraz thinks in three dimensions. Fans can look forward to a series of activities bringing the online and offline worlds together at this mela. Daraz understands that any division between the two is arbitrary. We’re not just a virtual portal; we’re virtureal. If you want to find out exactly what we mean by this, meet us at the mela,” adds Suharwardy.

A 7-day shopathon, bringing amazing discounts on different product categories each day

The Great Online Shopping Mela will be a 7-day online sale event with each day dedicated to a particular product category. All days of the GOSM will see mega deal discounts & flash sales going live for the category concerned. Payment partner discounts will be applicable site-wide throughout the event. Mobile Wallets including Jazzcash and Easypay, championed by growing numbers of Daraz shoppers for the financial convenience and access they provide to the unbanked, are also onboard the GOSM dream team.

Daraz doesn’t want to lift the lid off everything it has in store for GOSM. Not just yet. But what is certain is that fans can look forward to a holistic shopping ‘mela’ that really gathers the most exciting digital, brand and app partners under one roof for a range of exciting activations and events.
What’s on the menu? Music, masti, fans’ manpasand brands and so much more! Sign up for the newletter now and download the Daraz app.
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Huawei Partners withTÜV RheinlandforCertification ofSuperCharge Technology

Huawei Consumer Business Group today announced itscooperation with TÜV Rheinland tocertifyHuawei’s SuperCharge technology. Certification will mark the first time anend-to-end fast-charging technology has successfully completed the rigorous tests set forth by the world-renowned safety experts.Testing encompasses every component,requiring adapters, IC circuits and charging cable materials to pass safety, low temperature and thermal shock tests. Submitting itself to the stringent oversight of TÜV Rheinland demonstrates Huawei’s continued mission to deliver the most innovative features on the market, and highlights Huawei’s commitment to delivering not only faster charging but more importantly safer charging.

“Over the past 145 years, TÜV Rheinland has committed itself to ensuring that complex devices and products meet rigorous safety standards that meet consumer expectations,” said Kalyan Varma, VP of Business Field Electrical, Products, Global of TÜV Rheinland. “With the growing demand for fast charging solutions, we’reglad to work with Huawei to certify its SuperCharge technology using our proven testing methods and battery expertise. In the drive for continued innovation, we must always keep consumer safety at the forefront.”

“With each of our products, we strive not only to deliver the features and performance that consumers are looking for – but to go beyond where our competitors are in terms of experience,” said Bruce Li, Vice President of Handset Business at Huawei Consumer Business Group. “By working with the storied experts at TÜV Rheinland, we’re able to deliver a device that not only offers incredibly fast charging but does so with a safety assurance that our competitors cannot match.”

HUAWEI’s SuperCharge technology enables continuous “communication” between the device and the charger. By monitoring every single point of the charging cycle, it is able to intelligently auto-adjust voltage and current output to maximize charging speed based onthe capacity of the phone, adapter and cable. To keep Huawei’s fast-charging phones cool, Huawei SuperChargeuses a4.5V/5Alow-voltage charging solution.

In addition, the connectors and charging jack on Huawei’s devices are programmed to automatically suspend the supply of electricity if they come into contact with water. This intelligent safeguard is in place to prevent short circuits and device fires.

FFC gets top ranking for its Annual Report and Sustainability Reports

Fauji Fertilizer Company (FFC) given top ranking from ICAP / ICMAP for its Annual Report and Sustainability Reports (2016).

Fauji Fertilizer Company’s Annual Report 2016 has been awarded the Overall Top Position in all categories, besides being placed First in the Chemical Sector, of the Best Presented Annual Reports Awards organized by the joint committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) and Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP), in recognition of transparent reporting and good governance practices adopted by the Company. This is the 11^th Overall Top placement in the best annual report competition, whereas the first place in the Chemical Sector has been secured for the 13^th time by the Company.

The Company’s Sustainability Report 2016 was also awarded the First Position in this Category. This year marks FFC’s third year in a row as market leaders in International standard reporting.  

FFC Sustainability Report abides by the global standards of reporting, adhering to GRI standards, IR framework integrated reporting linked to the Sustainable Development Goals. FFC is also a proud member of United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and submits COP report. 

This award reflects the company’s commitment towards sustainable and responsible business practices which has been the hallmark of FFC since four decades.

On this landmark occasion, the Chief Executive & Managing Director of FFC, Lt Gen Shafqaat Ahmed (Retd) congratulated the Management on their exemplary performance. He further stated that these awards are a testament to the hard-work and focused approach of the Management towards compliance with the international accounting standards, the Companies Ordinance, Code of Corporate Governance, besides adhering to the highest standards of reporting.

He thanked the shareholders for reposing their trust in FFC, and reaffirmed the Company’s commitment to safeguard shareholders interests without compromising on integrity and governance.

Reon launches 1 MW Solar project at Service Shoe Industries

Reon Energy Limited today announced its latest project at Service Industries Limited (SIL). The 1000 kW solar energy system will provide considerable savings in energy-costs, along with an expected reduction of 517 tonnes in the annual carbon-emissions. The on-grid solar plant shall also sell excess energy to the grid during downtime.

A formal inauguration ceremony for this eco-friendly project was held at the factory premises of Service Industries at Muridke, near Lahore. It was attended by the CEO of SIL – Mr. Omar Saeed and the Ambassador of Germany – Mr. Martin Kobler, accompanied by Mr. Jurgen Colsch - the CEO of Caprice – a footwear company from Poland.

The CEO of SIL - Mr. Omar Saeed said; “The 1000 kW solar energy system will provide considerable reduction in energy-costs and carbon-emissions. We hope that this initiative creates awareness about environment-protection among the entrepreneurs, to bring a change in the mindset of the export-industries of Pakistan.”

He further added “SIL is a leading manufacturer of footwear – Servis Shoes. It is also one of the pioneering companies in the country, leading the way towards energy-efficiency and conservation. Pakistan enjoys a geo-strategic advantage for producing abundant amounts of solar energy. Hence, solar technology can save millions of dollars for the country’s economic growth, while also offering various ecological benefits”.  

The CEO of Reon Energy Ltd. – Mujtaba Haider Khan commented that: “Pakistan is one of the top 10 countries, worst affected by climate change. Eco-friendly initiatives by local manufacturers can slow-down the climate-change process. This initiative is a wonderful opportunity for SIL’s management and employees to be a part of a change that is so essential for sustainable growth of our nation.”

The German Ambassador - Martin Kobler stated that: The relations between Pakistan and Germany go far beyond business engagements. This project will contribute to the well-being of the global population, by protecting the Earth’s environment. Solar technology has revolutionized the energy sector in Germany and will hopefully become a game-changer in Pakistan too. Thank you for creating a sustainable vision for Pakistan and protecting the world’s ecology.

Reon Energy Limited specializes in solar-projects and alternate-energy technologies, as part of the energy portfolio of Dawood Hercules Group - the single largest private energy contributor in Pakistan’s Power-generation sector, adding approximately 1800 MW of energy to the grid. Reon specializes in solar PV solutions for medium, large and mega-scale, commercial and industrial organizations, to make them more profitable and energy independent. 

EcoStar announces discounted prices for 4K UHD LEDs

EcoStar - a nationwide brand of electronics which reflects technological excellence and innovation, has recently announced big discounts on the prices of its 4k UHD LED’s. The consumers who want to buy their LED televisions can take great advantage from this special offer, to buy a wide range of world-class quality and cutting-edge feature-rich EcoStar 4K UHD LED TVs, at unbelievably low prices.

During this discount offer, EcoStar’s 55UD925 is available at a discounted price of Rs. 89,000 only, instead of Rs. 97,000. Similarly, 55UD919 is available at Rs. 69,900 only, instead of Rs. 75,900. EcoStar’s 49UD920 is also available at Rs. 79,900, instead of Rs. 94,900. These 4K UHD LEDs’ are truly a perfect blend of aesthetics with quality, and are available all over the Pakistan market in various sizes from 43’’ to 65’’.

The EcoStar VERO 4K UHD resolution (3840x2160) gives a picture with 4 times more detail than Full HD. The viewers can now enjoy the ultimate 4K experience of sharp contrast with deep black richness and bright white which makes picture livelier.  Best adaption Resolution (3840*2160) makes an unmatched picture quality. EcoStar 4K pixels count with help of excellent resolution & wider screen creates desire of being drawn into image more deeply with high class colors and contrast resulting into terrifically amazing picture.

Equipped with an Android Operating System, the television gives you the freedom to explore a world of high quality content, games and applications online, through the web, e-mail and chat. More than 40 pre-loaded Apps like; Skype, Facebook, YouTube, Netflix, Twitter, I-Quran, Chrome Web Browser, Angry Birds, etc are also easily available. With the Android Market Application, you can also download 2.4M more apps from the Web including 3D content.