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As online shopping continues to take a more robust and upward trend, e-commerce leaders stressed the importance of maintaining good customer services in keeping consumers happy.

A medical student’s best friend is often caffeine as training to be a physician entails long study hours and overnight call duties. This habit of drinking coffee for energy boosts led to the launch of digital coffee shop start-up MD Brews; it started with Abbygale Lumanglas who read transcriptions and studied presentations with a cup of coffee always by her side. Lumanglas and her partner, Gabriel Jorge Habunal, aptly coined the name of their caffeine haven “MD Brews” a mix of the title “Doctor of Medicine” and the process that produces a delightful beverage. Today, they also share their joy through cloud logistics partner LOCAD who reliably and efficiently delivers little bags of caffeine, coffee syrup, and other home barista necessities to their customers’ doorsteps.

Apart from grocery and personal items, home furnishings are among the top purchases that shoppers have checked out the most in the last three to six months of 2021. Hence, the rise of trending home themes such as “Team Puti” versus “Team Kahoy” and “Team Classic” versus “Team Modern” in popular online groups like Home Buddies. Members of this page thrive on exchanging home renovation or redecoration tips and tricks. Joining the fray to spice up the homes of vintage piece lovers is the online furniture store Little Mountain, and helping it is LOCAD, an end-to-end fulfillment solution, who brings these items right to customers’ doorsteps, wherever they may be.

The rise of e-commerce has led to the blossoming of the Philippine beauty and cosmetics market, which is developing demand for items that specifically cater to the needs of the Filipino skin. Aiming to help Filipinos reach their goal of healthy, glowing skin, DMD Skin Sciences is paving the way to more accessible dermatological services and products in the country. Its digital strategy also comes at an opportune time as beauty products have become the second most purchased items online, according to the 2021 Digital Consumer Report conducted by Facebook and Bain & Company.

E-commerce brands in the Philippines and Southeast Asia are growing their Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) presence by opening their own web stores. As these businesses build on their existing marketplace to take control of customer journeys, the number of web stores in the country is expected to increase by 56% this year. This is just one of the key business trends reported by LOCAD, the leading Asian logistics platform that enables businesses to build, expand, and sustain their e-commerce operations.

LOCAD’s localized fulfillment helps Humble champion sustainability by reducing the carbon footprint often associated with e-commerce shipping. In the near future, the Humble co-founders plan to use tech to measure quantifiable impacts like carbon footprint reduction from recycling or upcycling secondhand items.

Providing great customer service with localized fulfillment serves as two of the most crucial elements needed to capture the Southeast Asian e-commerce market. LOCAD Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Constantin Robertz focused on how online sellers keen on breaking into new regions can benefit from the booming Southeast Asian consumers, during the Amazon Southeast Asia (SEA) Seller Summit 2022 virtually held in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines on January 14, 19, and 20 respectively.

Locad Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Constantin Robertz will share his insights on how businesses can establish, build, manage, and expand their regional e-commerce presence at the Amazon Southeast Asia (SEA) Seller Summit 2022, a highly anticipated e-commerce conference in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines on January 14, 19, and 20, respectively.

The 12.12 mega sale this year is estimated to have made PHP 15 billion in total sales across major online shopping platforms, according to multi-channel e-commerce integrator and cloud logistics platform LOCAD.

End-to-end fulfillment service and cloud logistics provider LOCAD is set to launch a new shipping platform empowering SMEs to manage multiple couriers in one place. Launched in 2020 with a holistic platform that integrates the backend of e-commerce from warehousing to shipping, LOCAD will now offer a modular service that focuses on aggregating trusted third-party logistics providers (3PL).

With people still staying home to keep safe, many turn to hobbies to pass the time, stay creative and become more active. This continuous trend urged fitness enthusiast Aencille Santos to start Manila Athletica — a brand inspiring Filipinos to start their fitness journey from home. And with LOCAD helping them fulfill their growing number of orders, Manila Athletica is ready to empower more customers to achieve their fitness goals.

Online businesses and e-Commerce in the Philippines are continuously growing and predicted to hit almost $28B (PHP1.4 trillion) by 2025, according to Bain & Company, Google, and Temasek. To fuel this growth further, seasoned Filipino e-Commerce champions join forces in driving LOCAD, a cloud-based logistics company, to support more brands and merchants in their online success.

Logistics and supply chain management integrator Locad today announces US$4.9 million in funding, in a seed round led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge with participation from Antler, Febe Ventures, Foxmont, Global Founders Capital, Gokongwei Family, and Hustle Fund. Locad offers eCommerce brands and retailers simple yet scalable end-to-end solutions, ranging from plug-and-play eCommerce fulfilment to a distributed warehousing network in APAC for companies that are looking to scale their business internationally.

To remain competitive in the post-pandemic business environment where online purchases are increasing, brands across all markets require a high degree of agility and reliable, speedy response time when it comes to their e-commerce capabilities, logistics, and supply chain management. Addressing this need, Locad offers an innovative cloud logistics solution that brings warehousing, packing, and shipping into one user-friendly platform for e-commerce businesses.