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  • UberEats Asia expands to Bangkok

    UberEats Asia expands to Bangkok

    UberEats Asia has introduced its stand-alone food-delivery app UberEats to Bangkok.

    It initially covers 100 restaurants and 24 cuisines, and users can track their orders from the moment they are placed until they arrive at their doors.

    “This app offers a window into what the future competition in the food-delivery industry could look like,” says UberEats Asia-Pacific GM Allen Penn. UberEats Asia is a business unit of US-based Uber Technologies.

    Already delivering food in Thailand are Berlin-based Foodpanda, Singapore-based GrabEat and Tokyo-based Line Man.

    After downloading the app, UberEats customers can order a meal and have it delivered in 30 to 45 minutes. The limited initial service areas include Asok, Chinatown, Ekamai, Nana, Pathumwan, Ploenchit, Phrom Phong, Sathorn, Silom and Thong Lor.

    The service will be available 10am to 10pm daily with no minimum price per order.

    “Bangkok has fantastic cuisine and the city has a large population with a strong base of smartphone users,” says Penn. “Most importantly, Thai people love to eat.”

    Bangkok is one of 57 cities in 20 countries where UberEats is available. It is the fifth city in Asia where Uber has launched its food delivery service, following Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei.

    In other countries, UberEats restaurant partners have increased revenue by up to 50 per cent, says Penn.

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  • Lalamove Delivers Lifestyle Services with LINE

    Lalamove Delivers Lifestyle Services with LINE

    Hong Kong based on-demand delivery app Lalamove is partnering with the world’s leading mobile platform LINE to expand on its delivery services in Bangkok.  The LINE MAN app is aimed at bringing reliable on-demand services to consumers as well as providing convenience to their increasingly busy lifestyles.  LINE MAN is one of LINE’s first ventures to “be more than a chat app” and LINE has chosen Thailand to be the first market to launch LINE MAN.

    The LINE MAN smartphone platform offers three services: document and package delivery, food purchase and delivery, and convenient goods purchase and delivery.  The delivery of all 3 services is provided by Lalamove, and currently limited to within Bangkok for now with plans for expansion.  LINE has a large user base of over 33 million in Thailand.

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    The announcement follows a global conference in March 2016 where LINE revealed a five-year plan to create a ‘smart portal’. The goal is to close the loop between businesses and LINE users and go beyond their original chat app strategy.

    Santit Jirawongkraisorn, Co-founder and Managing Director of Lalamove Thailand believes partnering with LINE is a natural progression. “This year, we have been marketing our online delivery services primarily to small and medium sized businesses. The addition of LINE MAN will bring Lalamove’s high quality services that many businesses have enjoyed to general consumers, which appeals to the Lalamove strategy and brand.”

    Meanwhile, the choice of Lalamove to deliver LINE MAN services demonstrates real confidence in the logistics app profile. According to Ariya Banomyong, Managing Director of LINE Thailand, “LINE MAN aims to offer best quality lifestyle services and help businesses leverage digital tools to connect with consumers, and Lalamove, as a leading on-demand delivery service provider in Thailand, made them a natural choice for LINE MAN”.

    LINE MAN will offer courier services through the Lalamove fleet of motorcycles, with cash payments.  Consumers will be able to order food via restaurant database app, Wongnai.

    LINE MAN is free to download at the Google Play store and Apple store.

    https://onelink.to/lineman

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  • Line Thailand expansion plans include business

    Line Thailand expansion plans include business

    Mobile platform Line Thailand has announced bold plans, targeting business uses.

    Part of Korea’s Naver internet service company, Line sees Thailand as its second-largest strategic market following Japan.

    Line Thailand MD Ariya Banomyong says the company aims to boost its presence not just as a mobile messenger but as a smart portal providing innovative and “useful” services.

    Banomyong says many businesses are wondering how to access customers seeking specific answers, and that ultimately Line would be more than just a message service. Already the company has launched a mobile delivery agent service, Line Man, and established a joint venture with Bangkok’s mass transportation business BTS, Rabbit Line Pay, which supersedes the Line Pay mobile payment business started last June.

    “I believe we definitely need to dominate the mobile food-delivery business because street foods are a very important part of Thai life,” says Banomyong. “Before Line Man, only a few restaurants offered a delivery service.”

    Banomyong aims to start localised services that can be adopted in major Line markets like Korea and Japan. “The Thai subsidiary will boost co-operation with startups here to seek new business opportunities.”

    Line services launched in Thailand in 2012, so far attracting 33 million subscribers – nearly half the country’s population. Line has added such services as official accounts, sponsored stickers and a content creators’ B2B market.

    For the offline-to-online sector, the company has started Line Shop, Line Gift Shop and Line At, an official account service for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

    “Only about 500,000 out of 2.8 million SMEs in Thailand are online,” says Banomyong. ”To offer them a broader online environment, we provide a simple yet effective platform with lower costs.”

    In December, the company also started the television content-streaming service Line TV in collaboration with media groups such as GMM. Its Line Music service has recorded more than 7 million cumulative downloads.

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