Dante International (eMAG), held by South Africa’s Naspers and Iulian Stanciu, should develop a warehouse for more than 20,000 foods products from Romanian producers, which it would deliver to customers shortly, ZF sources say.’
“The project is kept under wraps for now. Corporate workers will have their own market, because it will give them a choice to supermarkets. Ciprian Tanasescu took the reins of this project for eMAG,” a cold cuts producer source told ZF.
eMAG recruited Ciprian Tanasescu as business unit manager in May, LinkedIn data show. Prior to this, he had served as head of department and head of fresh & ultrafresh products with Metro Cash & Carry Romania for five and a half years. Before that he had supervised milk purchases for Danone and fruit and vegetable purchases for Carrefour, according to the same source.
“Our goal is to provide new services to our customers, to help them save time and money. As announced, we have ambitious development plans, both locally and internationally, but will be able to say more only at the end of July,” eMAG representatives told ZF. They did not elaborate further.
Early this year, eMAG announced investment of more than EUR155 million in a 130,000 square meter logistics hub in Joita, near Giurgiu, to accommodate some 1,000 companies selling their products via its marketplace. eMAG has a warehouse in the same town, as well. The new project has nothing to do with the already developed ones, ZF sources say.
eMAG posted RON8.93 billion revenue in 2020.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)