honestbee Celebrates Turning Two with Regional Expansion, Increased Service Offerings and Job Creation in Eight Countries

1 August 2017, Singapore – honestbee,
Singapore’s home-grown concierge and delivery service celebrates its second
anniversary this month by cementing its position as the largest and fastest fresh grocery e-commerce service in South East Asia.
honestbee
has the widest selection of fresh groceries online that can be delivered within
an hour. With new business verticals like food and laundry, honestbee’s
vision of becoming the most convenient on-demand services marketplace is starting
to shape up. Within two years, honestbee
has expanded to its eighth city, Tokyo, Japan which launched two weeks ago. honestbee
is currently present in eight key cities including Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta,
Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Taipei, Tokyo and Bangkok.

honestbee‘s
strong network of trained, on-demand personal shoppers (Shopper Bees), proprietary
logistics, e-commerce technology, and demand-driven consumption data allow the startup
to optimise services to meet country-specific customers’ needs. These include purchase
and delivery services across fresh groceries, toiletries, cooked food, laundry,
medicine and business courier.

“We started out as a groceries delivery
service in 2015 to provide jobs and serve time-starved families. As part of our
second anniversary, we are celebrating multiple business, customer and
organisational milestones two years down the road. This is testament to the
team’s hard work and support from our retail partners and customers. Customers choose
our platform because they truly appreciate the human touch via our concierge service,
which saves them time, and effort across various lifestyle chores, setting us
apart from other delivery services. We are proud to be able to serve more than
500,000 customers across Asia and will continue to work hard to delight our
growing base” said Joel Sng, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, honestbee.

Staying
true to its social mission of providing equal employment opportunities, honestbee
has since created over 10,000 job opportunities for Shopper and Delivery Bees. More
than 20,000 hours of training have been invested to ensure that individuals are
specialists in shopping for fresh groceries.

With
the success of honestbee’s
food delivery service launched in May 2016, it now expands its delivery radius
island-wide featuring more than 1,000 food & beverage merchants. Featured
merchants include favourites like Awfully Chocolate, Two Blur Guys, Hong Seng
Curry Rice, Jumbo Seafood and more. This service is available on both web and
app.

honestbee started
operations in major cities across Asia since 2015. As the leading and trusted
personal concierge and delivery service for all lifestyle needs, honestbee is committed to
excellence, and to bring convenience with fast and reliable on-demand service. It
set its sights to become the world’s most convenient services marketplace.

Founded on the
principles of providing social and financial impact on lives and businesses, honestbee seeks to create
equal employment opportunities for everyone in communities and elevate
businesses’ growth through technology. To experience life made easier by honestbee, please visit honestbee on Android and
iOS mobile apps, or online at honestbee.sg.