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COI Requests for OLX Group - May 2021

{{Request edit}} I have a COI and am desisting from making changes myself, but had some edit requests I feel would greatly improve layout (and lower down, some accuracy fixes).

Request - OLX brand vs. OLX Group

The page is currently structured for the brand, but includes just as much content for the parent company as the brand itself, also rolling in related brands that are owned by OLX Group but not OLX the subsidiary. Since OLX Group also meets

WP:CORPDEPTH
, I would say make a new topic for OLX Group, but since the brand content is pretty small and there's so much overlap as is, for now could we instead keep them together? I would request leaving the page name as is, but add a layout similar to this:

{{Infobox company for OLX Group
Lead focused on OLX Group
==History==
History of both OLX Group and OLX brand
==Marketplaces==
===OLX brand===
Details about the platform, maybe tech minutiae not suited for broader "history" section
===Other brands===
Summarize brands like Avito and Autotrader

If a brand section is added, start with this content?

==Marketplaces==
===OLX brand===
OLX was founded in 2006.<ref>https://www.olxgroup.com/story</ref>
In 2021, the OLX brand was active in Poland, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Peru, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.<ref>https://www.olx.com</ref>
===Other brands===
As of 2021, OLX Group operated around 20 brands in around 30 countries. Among them were 321Sprzedane!, [[AutoTrader.co.za|Autotrader]], Autovit.ro, [[Avito]], Domofond.ru, fixly, Imovirtual, letgo, OLX, OLX Autos, OLX Brasil, Otodom, Otomoto, Properati, Property24, Selency, Standvirtual, [[Tradus]], Waah Jobs, and [[We Buy Any Car|webuyanycar.com]].<ref>https://www.olxgroup.com/brands</ref>

Request - Introduction Update

  • The introduction doesn't really explain the relationship between OLX Group and its brands. Perhaps add in:
OLX Group was formed in 2016. It operates an international network of trading platforms. Its brands include OLX, [[Avito.ru|Avito]], Otomoto, and [[Media24|Property24]] among others, and it operates trading platforms in around 30 countries.<ref>https://www.olxgroup.com/story</ref>
  • Also, possibly change first few sentences (with the 45 countries removed for being 4 years outdated) from:
'''OnLine eXchange''' also known as '''OLX Group''' is a Dutch-domiciled online marketplace headquartered in [[Amsterdam]], and owned by [[Prosus]], the international assets division of [[Naspers]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2014/10/29/olx-emerging-markets/|title=Meet OLX, the biggest Web company you’ve never heard of|date=2014-10-29|website=Fortune|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> founded in 2006 and operating in 45 countries.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/687f5a58-5807-11e6-9f70-badea1b336d4|title=Argentina: home to the majority of Latin America’s tech unicorns|last=Mander|first=Benedict|date=2016-09-19|newspaper=Financial Times|issn=0307-1766|access-date=2016-09-27}}</ref>

To the reorganized:

'''OLX Group''' is a Dutch-domiciled online marketplace headquartered in [[Amsterdam]].<ref name=":0"/> The OLX consumer brand originated as '''OnLine eXchange''' in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/687f5a58-5807-11e6-9f70-badea1b336d4|title=Argentina: home to the majority of Latin America’s tech unicorns|last=Mander|first=Benedict|date=2016-09-19|newspaper=Financial Times|issn=0307-1766|access-date=2016-09-27}}</ref> OLX Group is owned by [[Prosus]], the international assets division of [[Naspers]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2014/10/29/olx-emerging-markets/|title=Meet OLX, the biggest Web company you’ve never heard of|date=2014-10-29|website=Fortune|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref>
  • OLX brand paragraphs - the intro's last two paragraphs are very outdated, and place too much focus on one brand out of 20, namesake or not. Perhaps move the last two paragraphs to ===OLX brand===  ?

Request - New Locations and Headquarters Section

There isn't currently a summation of global dispersion on the page (that isn't random), so please add something akin to:

==Locations and headquarters==
OLX Group is headquartered in [[Amsterdam]]. OLX Group has offices in Turkey, South Africa, India, and Indonesia, among others. It has South American offices in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, and Ecuador, while European offices are in Portugal, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Russia, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.<ref>https://www.olxgroup.com/brands</ref>

Request - Infobox Changes

A number of updates are needed in the infobox, in part to change the details from the OLX brand to OLX Group.

  • New Logo: Please replace OLX brand logo with one for the parent org.
Link: https://www.olxgroup.com/brands/olx
  • Old Logo: Delete, or move [[File:OLX_New_Logo.png|thumb|150px|OLX brand logo]] into page as thumbnail?
  • Founded: Remove 2006, Argentina as it's inaccurate and not in page itself, change to 2016
  • Industry: Remove [[Internet forum|forum]]s, as it's not common descriptor
  • Founders: Remove Grinda and Oxenford (more appropriate for infobox on just the OLX brand)
  • Key people: Change to Romain Voog (CEO)
Link: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-naspers/s-africas-naspers-hires-airbnb-amazon-veteran-to-lead-global-classifieds-business-idUSKBN2BO4GY
  • Number of locations: 30+ countries (2021)
Link: https://www.olxgroup.com/story
  • Number of employees: Change to 10,000+ (2021)
Link: https://www.olxgroup.com/story
  • Parent: [[Prosus]] ([[Naspers]])
  • Revenue: $1.281 billion (2019)
Link: https://www.prosusreport2020.com/
  • Subsidiaries: [[Avito.ru|Avito]], [[AutoTrader.co.za]], [[letgo]], [[Tradus]], 321Sprzedane!, Autovit.ro, Domofond.ru, Fixly, Imovirtual, OLX, OLX Autos, Otomoto, Otodom, Properati, [[Media24|Property24]], Selency, Standvirtual, Webuyanycar.com
Link: https://www.olxgroup.com/brands
  • Please also add location city:
| hq_location_city = [[Amsterdam]]
| hq_location_country = [[The Netherlands]]

Request - Criticism Heading and Layout

Since I have a COI, I'm hesitant to ask for the removal of negative information or request significant modification of the "criticism" section. But, there are some layout issues that run afoul of the Manual of Style.

For example, the criticism heading runs afoul of

WP:CSECTION
. To fix that, either:

1) The heading could be removed, with the content condensed into a paragraph focused on the 2018-2020 fraud/racist content developments before placed into the chronology of history (or the OLX brand section).
2) Rename the heading. As WP:CSECTION recommends, maybe it could be changed to the less loaded "Fraud policies," maybe "Anti-fraud policies" or "Fraud management"?

Either way, the criticism is all focused on the OLX brand, not the OLX Group parent company, so possible to have the layout reflect that? If the heading is kept, maybe a layout like this:

==Marketplaces==
===OLX brand===
(content)
====Fraud management====
(content)
====Auctions of racist items====
(content)
===Other brands===
(content)

Request - Merging "Individual Countries" and "History"

OLX having a separate "history" and "individual countries" section seems odd and redundant, since both are so international. Possible to merge them together in a chronology? To save time, feel free to use version I crafted a version below (I didn't modify any meanings or add/remove facts, just rearranged for readability.)

Extended content

History

OLX brand and Naspers (2006-15)

Fabrice Grinda and Alec Oxenford launched the OLX brand in 2006 as a Craigslist alternative for the world outside of the United States.[1]

OLX is the leading classifieds website for users in

UAE (under the name of dubizzle.com), Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. Since its launch in 2005 by J.C. Butler and Sim Whatley, dubizzle.com has become the number one platform for users to buy, sell, or find anything in their community. dubizzle is an OLX company.[2]

In 2006, it acquired Mundoanuncio.com, a classifieds site targeting the Hispanic market and in 2007, it made an investment in Chinese classifieds site Edeng.cn.[3]

In 2009, the company partnered with social network Hi5.[4]

Naspers acquired a majority ownership in OLX in 2010, as part of its classifieds division.[5] Naspers increased its ownership share of OLX to 95% of the company in 2014.[6]

OLX launched in Nigeria in 2012.[7] The company purchased its Nigerian competitor, TradeStable.[when?][8][9] However, in February 2018 OLX announced the shut down of its Nigerian office and a complete pullout from Nigeria.[10]

Philippines classified ads site Sulit rebranded as OLX in 2014.[11] The merger in the Philippines between OLX and Ayos Dito redirected Ayos Dito users to OLX as of 2015.[12] In April 2019, Carousell acquired OLX Philippines after receiving an investment from Naspers.[13] The deal also gave OLX 10% stake in Carousell.[14]

In Indonesia, in March 2014, OLX took ownership of Tokobagus.com, and rebranded to OLX.co.id.[15] In July 2020, BeliMobilGue rebranded itself as OLX Autos in Indonesia [16]

OLX Cashmycar, a joint venture between Frontier Cars Group (FCG) and OLX in India was announced in November 2018. [17][18] This was offline expansion of OLX online platform. [19] OLX Cashmycar launched its 50th store in February 2019.[20] In December 2020, OLX Group launched OLX Autos in India.[21] CEO of OLX Autos in India is Amit Kumar.[22]

In April 2014, Naspers' Middle European classifieds site in Romania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Hungary and Poland rebranded as OLX.[23]

In September 2014, the Ukrainian classified Slando.ua rebranded as part of OLX Group.[24]

In November 2014, Naspers formed a joint-venture with Schibsted to co-own OLX Brazil.[25][26]

Formation of OLX Group to present (2016-21)

In Kenya in 2016, farmers reportedly used OLX to sell their produce and livestock, especially chicken and cattle.[27][28]

In late 2016 it launched Tradus as a heavy machinery classifieds site.[29]

OLX Group ceased its operations in Venezuela on September 11, 2018, due to complex political issues and lack of free dealing.[30][31][32]

In 2019, Avito was the second biggest classifieds site in the world after Craigslist.[33]

In April 2019, online classifieds marketplace

Jiji.ng acquired OLX Group businesses in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria.[34]

In Pakistan, OLX receives nearly 30 million views per month.

In India, about 99% of OLX's listings come from used mobile and electronics, used home and household goods, and used cars and bikes.[35] OLX's operations in India, like other online retailers, has attracted fraudsters and faced problems with people selling stolen vehicles. In combatting fraud nearly 25% of the car listings get rejected by its systems to protect users from fraud.[36][37]

In December 2020, OLX Group launched OLX Autos in India.[38]

References
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ dubizzle.com/about/
  3. ^ Rao, Leena. "Naspers Makes Strategic Investment In Craigslist Competitor OLX". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  4. ^ Wauters, Robin. "OLX And hi5 Join Forces For International Expansion Plans". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  5. ^ Perez, Sarah (2015-09-03). "Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S." TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "OLX claims three million sellers, buyers at third anniversary". Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  8. ^ "Naspers pulls India into its online web". Business Day Live. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  9. ^ Abiodun, Eromosele (2015-04-01). "Nigeria: OLX Expands Platform, Acquires Tradestable". This Day (Lagos). Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  10. ^ "CONFIRMED: OLX shuts down office in Nigeria". Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  11. ^ https://www.yugatech.com/the-internet/how-the-mighty-sulit-became-olx-ph/#sthash.7XWZrMHg.dpbs
  12. ^ "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  13. Philippine Star
    . 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  14. ^ "Southeast Asia's Carousell snags $56M from Naspers-owned OLX". TechCrunch.
  15. ^ "Cerita OLX Mengubur Tokobagus dan Berniaga". detikinet (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  16. ^ "BeliMobilGue rebrands as OLX Autos". Swa.
  17. ^ "OLX announces its plan of further expanding its used car business in India". Geekymint.
  18. ^ "Updated: OLX Launches Physical Used Car Stores Cash My Car". Medianama.
  19. ^ "OLX to expand used car business offline, eyes 150 outlets by 2021". Outlook.
  20. ^ "OLX Cash My Car in Top Gear With the Launch of Its 50th Store". Business wire India.
  21. ^ "OLX expands to offline used car buying/selling marketplace: Launches OLX Autos". financialexpress.
  22. ^ "OLX merges online brand with offline CashMyCar for seamless car trade-in experience". MoneyControl.
  23. ^ "Slando меняет название на OLX.ua и запускается на украинском". ain.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  24. ^ "Сайт объявлений Slando меняет название". korrespondent.net (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  25. ^ "South African, Norwegian e-commerce rivals bury hatchet in Brazil battle". Reuters. 2014-11-14. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  26. ^ https://www.biznews.com/tech/2014/11/14/naspers-schibsted-bury-hatchet-brazil-battle
  27. ^ "More than 10,000 farmers use ads site OLX to sell produce". Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  28. ^ Ollinga, Michael. "OLX sets up agriculture category to rid sector of middlemen". Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  29. ^ "About us Tradus". www.tradus.com. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  30. ^ Acukat. "OLX es la nueva víctima de Maduro, cierra operaciones y se despide de Venezuela - Venezuela al dia". www.venezuelaaldia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  31. ^ "Otro que se va... OLX Venezuela anuncia el cierre de todas sus plataformas (Foto)". LaPatilla.com (in European Spanish). 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  32. ^ Web, El Nacional (2018-09-11). "OLX Venezuela anunció el cese de sus operaciones en el país". El Nacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  33. ^ "Naspers takes full control of Russian classifieds site Avito in $1.16B deal". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  34. ^ "Jiji to buy OLX in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania". Retrieved 2020-07-25.
  35. ^ indiainfoline.com. "Naspers-Backed OLX takes No.1 position in emerging markets". Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  36. ^ Philip, Lijee; Vijayraghavan, Kala (25 October 2019). "The cat and mouse game starts in used cars' online sales". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2019-11-02 – via The Economic Times.
  37. ^ "Planning to sell stuff on OLX, Quikr? You might be cheated by fraudsters - Don't make these mistakes". Zee Business. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  38. ^ "OLX expands to offline used car buying/selling marketplace: Launches OLX Autos". financialexpress.
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