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Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, introduces Z-HUB, an all-new, fully integrated hub to serve all business needs of startups and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Kuwaiti market. The hub offers a wide range of services and solutions in over 6 essential business areas to help SME owners expand their businesses, take them towards the road of success, and rise above the competition.
Z-HUB gathers the best tools that serve the needs of SMEs in one place, focusing on six essential business areas including services for e-commerce, marketing, HR, location and online presence, insurance, tendering, Zain Business solutions, and more. Zain presents these services and more for the most competitive prices in the market.
The new hub comes in collaboration with a number of SMEs specializing in the above-mentioned areas. Zain will design special and exclusive offers for its SME customers in partnership with its partners to tailor each offer to each customer’s unique business needs. The offerings are designed to maximize efficiency, increase productivity, elevate customer satisfaction rates, and reduce the time needed to process transactions all while cutting costs.
Commenting on the announcement, Zain Kuwait’s Chief Enterprise Business Officer Hamad Al Marzouq said: “We are proud today to launch Z-HUB, our all-new integrated hub to serve the Kuwaiti startups market. Through this service, we gather all of our most advanced, world-class solutions and put them in the hands of SME owners, supporting them to build a digital infrastructure for their business and helping them serve their customers with utmost efficiency”.
Al Marzouq added: “The Kuwaiti market is full of promising talents, and we at Zain are well aware of the important role played by SMEs in achieving economic and social development in the nation. We believe SMEs represent a big part of the country’s production channels, and they play an essential role in the growth of national economy. That is why we are always committed to offering them the best and most advanced solutions, especially that Zain is a leading digital service provider in Kuwait and the region. We hope this step opens up entire new horizons in front of Kuwaiti entrepreneurs”.
Al Marzouq continued: “Since its inception, Zain has always enjoyed a solid ecosystem of strategic partnerships with the world’s top tech leaders, making it the first destination to serve the technical needs of companies of all sizes. Today, we expand this ecosystem by partnering with a number of SMEs, each specializing in their respective industries, so that Z-HUB’s services are offered by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We believe this will help enrich the spirit of joint collaboration and contribute to developing the local SMEs market”.
Al Marzouq concluded: “This launch reflects our continuous efforts to grow our services portfolio for Kuwait’s SME community, who have grown to become a great part of our corporate customer base. This is why we will always be commitment to offering such refreshed offerings in line with our digital transformation strategy that aims at empowering a more efficient business sector in the Kuwaiti market”.
Z-HUB is an integrated hub where customers can find a variety of services tailored to meet the needs of SMEs in one user-friendly place to ensure the swift expansion of their business. Zain offers special and exclusive offers to its customers, tailored to every customer’s company, customer base, and business partners, ensuring efficiency and flexibility in their everyday operations.
The new hub features tools and solutions in over six essential business areas, including e-commerce services and integrated platforms where customers can manage their products with ease, marketing services like analysis, strategies and branding customizable for every customer, HR services that aid business owners to manage their employees, location services to help customers get recognized on Google Maps and create an online presence, insurance services to provide consultation and risk assessment, tendering services to facilitate the tendering process across all sectors, as well as a wide range of tech services and tools from Zain Business.
The Z-HUB partners ecosystem features a number of SMEs specializing in their own respective industries, including:
UPayments:
Online e-commerce tool to meet every business need that includes UStore, Upay, and Uinterface.
Zyda:
Fully customizable restaurant delivery platform.
ExpandCart:
Offering complete e-commerce tools, solutions, and plans that include ExpandCart Professional, ExpandCart Ultimate, and ExpandCart Enterprise.
Tendering Center:
Tendering Center offers a one-year tendering plan and notifications designed to facilitate tenderers and bidders.
Chrysalis Digital:
Chrysalis General Trading Company helps customers get Google Business verification in addition to 360 virtual walkthrough tours, and more.
MenaiTech:
Providing consultancy services such as MenaLite Core, MenaLite HR and MenaTracks, as well as MenaCRM that helps to develop innovation.
Al Othman Pearls:
Helps create comprehensive insurance packages for customers’ businesses at a below-market price.
Totals:
Totals offers multiple packages for marketing, advertising, and content creation based on every customer’s needs, such as Total’s Starter, Growth and Enterprise Packages.
Zain strongly believes in the crucial role played by private sector organizations in supporting social and economic sustainability projects, as well as further pushing the entrepreneurial community’s growth in the country. Springing from its growing commitment towards practicing its social responsibility, the company is committed to printing a positive print through all its activities. This has led Zain to embrace the most influential issues in the community, including the support of entrepreneurship and innovation.