KUALA LUMPUR, 27 January 2021 – PG Mall, the leading homegrown online marketplace in Malaysia inked a cross country platform collaboration agreement with JD.com to join its cross-border e-commerce platform JD Worldwide, helping Malaysian sellers sell local products to the China market. PG Mall held a virtual signing ceremony today with JD Worldwide to officiate the collaboration.
JD.com is one of two massive B2C online retailers headquartered in China, and is a member of the NASDAQ100 and Fortune Global 500.
Established in 2017, PG Mall, a locally-founded online marketplace that operates under a unique Sharing Economy business model, aspires to grow and bridge fellow home brands to the World. PGMall’s focus has always been on local sellers and propelling them to a bigger stage. It has been actively collaborating with the local government to drive activities that support local sellers and products through PENJANA campaigns such as Micro and SMEs E-Commerce Campaign, Shop Malaysia Online (SMO), and Kempen Beli Barangan Malaysia (KBBM).
Proven to be effective, within a span of 4 years since its inception, PG Mall has aggressively grown its business to greater heights and impressively ranked as Third Most Visited Online Marketplace in Malaysia among two other long established foreign-owned online marketplaces in Malaysia, by iPrice Insights in 3rd quarter year 2020, with a total monthly visit of 8 million visitors – making it the No. 1 locally-founded Online Marketplace in Malaysia.
Not just that, staying true to its tagline ‘Bridging Local to the World’, PG Mall is now able to bridge local businesses to the second largest market in the world – China, through its collaboration with JD Worldwide, in the hope of helping affected businesses to recover from financial woes caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
