kalahari.co.ke

KALAHARI.CO.KE PROFILE

Kalahari.co.ke was launched in Kenya in October 2009.Kalahari Kenya is a unit of Kalahari.net, an e –commerce business unit of MIH group (Naspers).In Kenya Kalahari.co.ke is the trading name of the business, a unit of MIH Internet, a trade name under the company registered as MIH Internet East Africa Limited.

KALAHARI.CO.KE
Kalahari.co.ke is Kenya’s largest and leading Kenya's online store with a huge range(over 9 million items in inventory) in ten categories: Books,Music,Games,Electronics,Photographic,Kid’s corner,Christian,Gifts,Toys,Hobbies.


The key benefits of shopping on Kalahari.co.ke include:

-Convenience: You see it online and buy it online. Your shopping is just a click away.
-Secure: Secure transactions using a time tested payment system. Kalahari.co.ke is a safe and secure website and is legally committed to protecting all transactions and information.
-Consumer protection/guarantee policy (Guarantee on Returns & Replacements): If a client is not satisfied with any purchase, he may return it within 14 days of receipt. If we supply the wrong product or if the product is in any way faulty or damaged, we will exchange it for the correct one. We will make a reasonable effort to exchange the product, but if replacement is not possible, we will refund your purchase price including delivery costs.
If you are not satisfied with your choice and the product is still in mint condition, you may return it and we will refund you the purchase price (excluding delivery costs).
-Delivery: Fast and effective delivery to your door using both G$s and on the dot.
-Range; All your shopping needs addresses in one store. You can’t get it anywhere else
-Best Prices: We offer the best quality at the correct price. Plus special discounts, shopping voucher.
-Value added: Gift wrapping and free packaging of orders.
-Large and user friendly web portal for ease of navigation.
-Good consumer incentives: Customers who purchase order value of 2500 in December 2009,get a free voucher of kshs 500.Any new registered users get a free voucher in December 2009.In addition all the shops have special deals in Dec 2009.
-Good customer service support and visibility of transactions
-Easy payment options including mpesa and bank pay in.

How does it work?
We deliver at minimal delivery cost
Delivery Cost (Standard rate)
You will be charged Ksh 600 per order when the sum of the items weight in the order is less than 4 kgs. Thereafter the system will automatically calculate the delivery charge as follows.
5kg - Ksh 620
6kg - Ksh 890
7kg - Ksh 1200
8kg - Ksh 1400
If the parcel is 8kgs and over, you will be charged Ksh 300 for each kg over 8kg.
Delivery Times
Products at kalahari.co.ke can be delivered from 7 to 23 days, please check the individual delivery times for each product you add to your basket.
Note:
- Delivery time is calculated according to the parcel item with the longest delivery time. This simply means that each parcel in your order has its own delivery time and the entire order will only be complete when all parcels have been invoiced.
- You will need to place multiple orders for item quantities over 500. This simply means that you may place an order for 100 products with quantities of 5 for each product to total the basket limit of 500.
Delivery Methods & Restrictions
Door-to-door (8am-5pm, Monday - Friday) – Parcels delivered by courier between 8am and 5pm, Monday - Friday. Submit a street address and select door-to-door as your delivery method when you reach checkout.
.Order summary & Payment
A complete order summary will display with all details of your order. Please ensure that all information, including your delivery details is correct. At this stage you may include a personalized message if one of your parcels is a gift delivery. For more information, click here. If you’re happy with your order summary choose one of our easy payment options which include, M-PESA or bank deposit. Don’t forget to read the terms and conditions and click on pay now. An order confirmation email will be sent to you.
Here's a list of our payment options:
The payment details below will be visible on your order confirmation page and a personal confirmation email will be sent to you.

- Paying by M-PESA is easy
Go ahead and place your items in your basket and when you reach the point where you must pay, simply select the "Pay by M-PESA" option. The following details are printed here for your convenience; they will also appear on during checkout, as well as a personal confirmation e-mail will be sent to you.
Pay your billed amount by transferring the necessary funds from your M-PESA account to Kalahari.co.ke’s account.
M-PESA Account holder: kalahari.co.ke
M-PESA Account number: 502400
Your Reference: Your order number and SURNAME.
- Bank Deposits or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
Paying by bank deposit or electronic funds transfer (EFT) is easy. Go ahead and place your items in your basket and when you reach the point where you must pay, simply select the "Pay by Bank Deposit or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)" option. The following details are printed here for your convenience; they will also appear on your Bank Deposit pages, as well as a personal confirmation e-mail will be sent to you.
Pay your billed amount by making an electronic fund transfer (EFT), or by making a direct deposit into Kalahari’s account:
Bank: Standard Chartered
Branch: Kenyatta Avenue
Branch code: 025
Bank code: 02
Account holder: MIH t-a Kalahari
Account number: 010 200 671 7401
Your reference: Your order number and SURNAME
Global Company History: Naspers Ltd.
Naspers Ltd. is one of South Africa's leading and most diversified media companies. South Africa remains the company's single most important market, at 64 percent of its 2004 sales of ZAR 12.8 billion ($2.1 billion). Naspers is also one of the leading media groups in sub-Saharan Africa, with operations in some 40 countries, including the continent's islands states. Naspers has also begun building a presence in Europe, notably with operations in Greece, Cyprus, and the Netherlands, as well as in Asia, especially in Thailand and China. Naspers operates in five core areas. The company's television component includes its control of MIH, MultiChoice South Africa, MultiChoice Africa, and M-Net; the NetMed pay-tv service in Greece and Cyprus; and a 31.1 percent stake in United Broadcasting Corporation in Thailand. The company is also targeting an entry into the future Chinese satellite television market. Internet services is another major part of the group's operations, and includes M-Web in South Africa and Thailand; majority control of SportsCn, a leading Internet portal in China; control of Hong Kong-listed Tencent Ltd., which provides the QQ instant messaging service in China, Taiwan, Thailand, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia and in South Africa; and the Media24 Digital brand of e-media Web sites. Print media represents Naspers origins and includes its 60 newspaper titles, such as Die Burger, Beeld, Volksblad, Rapport, City Press, and 30 magazine titles, including Drum, Family, Huisgenoot, You, Finansies & Tegniek, and Finance Week, as well as licensed and localized editions of Cosmopolitan, Runner's World, Sports Illustrated, and others. The Book Publishing and Private Education division encompasses Naspers' Via Afika unit, the leading African book publisher operating under a number of imprints, and its Educor private education component, South Africa's leading private provider of onsite and correspondence courses for adults, as well as corporate training programs. Naspers is listed on the Johannesburg, NASDAQ, and Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchanges.

Our mission statement. To build shareholder value by operating subscriber management platforms that provide content, services and means of communication to paying users; to license related technologies and to be useful to the communities we serve.
Key Dates:
* 1915: Publication begins of Die Burger, a newspaper for Afrikaner readers.
* 1916: Nasionale Pers is created as a holding company for Die Burger and other publishing interests.
* 1918: The Company begins book publishing operations.
* 1925: Die Volksblad is launched as a daily newspaper.
* 1950: Nasionale Boekhandel is organized as a separate publishing business.
* 1959: Nasionale Boekhandel acquires Tafelberg Uitgewers.
* 1965: The Company starts publishing its first English-language magazine, Fairlady.
* 1970: Rapport, a national Sunday newspaper, is founded.
* 1973: Nasionale Boekhandel becomes a Naspers subsidiary.
* 1974: A daily newspaper, Beeld, begins publication for the Johannesburg market.
* 1977: Human & Rousseau book publishers are acquired.
* 1986: M-Net pay television service is launched.
* 1988: Correspondence education services begin with the acquisitions of Success and Lyceum.
* 1990: M-Net is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
* 1993: M-Net is split into MIH Holdings and MultiChoice (later MIHL).
* 1994: Naspers is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
* 2000: Naspers simplifies its structure under five primary subsidiaries.
* 2002: Naspers acquires full control of MIH Holdings; the company gains a secondary listing on the NASDAQ.
* 2004: Tencent is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Naspers took a new step forward in the 1980s when it acquired Drum Publications, a company that specifically targeted the black African reading market. The 1984 purchase gave Naspers a number of leading magazine titles, including the weekly Drum and True Love & Family, as well as the Sunday newspaper City Press. The acquisition was also instrumental in positioning the company for the post-apartheid era.

The 1980s also marked Naspers transformation into a multi-media group. In 1984, Koos Bekker had finished his graduate studies in the United States and was returning to South Africa. Bekker had written a thesis on the emergence of pay-television, especially HBO, while a student at Columbia University, and had recognized that the HBO model provided a model for developing a South African pay-television service. Bekker brought his idea to Ton Vosloo, Naspers' new CEO, in 1984. Together, Vosloo and Bekker formed a new company, M-Net, with Naspers and several other South African publishing groups, including Argus, Times Media, and Perskor, becoming major shareholders. The company then applied for permission to begin broadcasting, which was promptly refused by the government-controlled television monopoly, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). In exchange for permission, however, Naspers had to agree to broadcast only non-news entertainment programming.

M-Net hit the air in 1986 to an enthusiastic reception. Less than three years after its launch, the new company was already posting profits. Bekker, who served as M-Net's CEO, then took the company public, launching its listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1990. The listing enabled the company to begin plans to extend its coverage to the entire sub-Saharan African region, and in 1991 M-Net began building its own satellite network. Satellite broadcasting began the following year. In 1992, M-Net entered Europe with a 40 percent stake in pay-television group FilmNet. Then, in 1993, M-Net was split up into two publicly listed companies, the M-Net television channel and MultiChoice International Holdings (MIH), which took over subscriber management and the group's international broadcasting operations. The successful public offering encouraged Naspers to go public as well, with a listing on the Johannesburg exchange in 1994.
Beyond publishing, the company became a major player in the South African Internet market with the launch of M-Web in 1997. The company's media operations were also growing strongly, backed by the launch of NetMed pay-television service in Greece and Cyprus in 1995 and the beginning of digital satellite broadcasting operations in Europe and Asia as well as in Africa. The company bought a 50 percent stake in Touchline Media in 1996, increasing its content component, then gained nearly one-third of leading Thai pay-television broadcaster United Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) in 1997. In that year, MIH also became a major shareholder in interactive television services provider Open TV, a position stepped up to 80 percent in 1999. By then, Koos Bekker had taken over as CEO of Naspers, while Ton Vosloo became the group's chairman.

In recognition of its expansion beyond its original publishing business, the company officially adopted the Naspers name in 1998. In that year, the company also debuted its Media24 brand of Web content, starting with the sites pages24.com, news24.com, fin24.com, as well as online bookseller Kalahari .net. On the publishing side, Naspers acquired a 50 percent stake in religious publisher Lux Verbi in 1999.

Naspers moved to simplify its corporate structure in 2000, regrouping its operations under five primary subsidiaries: MIH Holdings, M-Web, Media24, Nasboek, and Educor. That year also marked the company's entry into the China market with the launch of the sports-oriented web portal SportCN. The following year, Naspers increased its position in China by acquiring a 46.5 percent share of Tencent, which owned the popular QQ instant messaging service.

Naspers continued simplifying its structure in 2002, when it took full control of both MIH Holdings and MIHL (formerly MultiChoice). Naspers then listed its stock on the NASDAQ. The company also sold off its stake in Open TV that year.

As it turned into the 21st century, Naspers continued seeking new growth avenues. The company targeted further international expansion, launching a Hungarian version of its Women's Value magazine title in 2003. Closer to home, the company debuted the monthly Kick Off in Nigeria that year and also began publishing the weekly newspaper tabloid Kaapse Sun for the Western Cape market. In 2004, another of the company's holdings went public, as Naspers listed its shares in Tencent on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The public offering marked Naspers commitment to positioning itself for the Chinese market, particularly with a view to gaining a share at the start up of the country's satellite television industry, which was expected to take off with China's admission to the World Trade Organization in 2005. With the largest part of its revenues generated by its pay-television holdings, Naspers had transformed itself into one of the world's major media groups.
Principal Subsidiaries
Educor; Media24; MIH Holdings; ViaAfrika.
Principal Competitors
New Africa Investments Ltd.; Central Group of Cos.; News Corporation Ltd.; Reed Elsevier PLC; Independent Newspaper Holdings Ltd.; VNU N.V.
Naspers is a leading multinational media group, incorporated in 1915 as a public limited liability company and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in September 1994. The company also has an ADR listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2009:
Sales: $2,746.4M
One year growth: 9.7%
Net income: $356.6M
Income growth: (28.0%)
Officers:
Chairman: Ton Vosloo
Managing Director and Director: Koos Bekker
CFO and Director: Steve Pacak
Over the past two decades the group has evolved from a traditional print media business in one country, to a broad-based e-media company in multiple markets.
The group’s principal operations are in internet platforms (focusing on commerce, communities, content, communication and games), pay-television and the provision of related technologies and print media (including publishing, distribution and printing of magazines, newspapers and books). Most of Naspers’s businesses hold leading market positions.

The group’s most significant operations are located in South Africa and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Netherlands, India, Brazil and Thailand.
Mission and Strategy
Naspers operates platforms that link users to media, e-commerce, advertising, content and means of communication. The strategy is to provide entertainment, trading opportunities and information and the ability for users to participate in communities wherever they are.

The group’s expertise lies in the following:
• packaging content and creating communities
• building brand names around them
• Running platforms that distribute media products, support e-commerce and sell advertising.
Naspers manages paying subscribers, concentrates on the media, trading and communication needs of individual users and also develops and sells useful media technologies. Through its various operations, the group wants to be useful to the communities it serves and use its expertise to that end.

DAVID ERIC AOLL
HEAD OF COUNTRY-KALAHARI.CO.KE