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Opontia: Enabling e-commerce brands to go global Philip Johnston and Manfred Meyer, co-founders of Opontia The GCC region is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in the world according to a report from Dubai’s CommerCity, with online sales set to treble by 2022. US-based consultancy firm AT Kearney predicts the region’s e-commerce sector will grow from $29 billion this year to $50 billion by 2025. While the sector continues to see higher adoption of online shopping among consumers, for UAE-based e-commerce enabler Opontia, which acquires e-commerce brands and helps them grow, the sector still has a long way to go.  “The e-commerce industry in the region is slightly less mature than it is in the US and Europe and Southeast Asia, but it s growing much faster,” says Philip Johnston, co-founder of Opontia. For example, Noon only has an assortment of two million products across both UAE and KSA. Whereas lazada, for example in Malaysia, had 15 million products at the

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