Leveraging superior know-how and digital journey purposes alongside long-standing journey companies experience to supply one of the best journey help for company travellers.
HONG KONG – FREED GROUP, an award-winning digital and sensible merchandising options firm, has introduced that its Co-founder & CEO, Mr. Abel Zhao, has acquired Connexus Journey Restricted, a number one regional journey administration firm headquartered in Hong Kong.
After the acquisition, Connexus will now turn out to be a part of the FREED GROUP household. As a know-how pioneer within the digital commerce sector, FREED believes that Connexus Journey has a wonderful aggressive edge within the business given its appreciable standing and devoted workforce. Leveraging FREED’s DNA within the journey business, the acquisition is about to create technological & strategic synergies that can additional improve Connexus’ total capabilities and drive long-term enterprise development.
Since its inception in 2015, FREED has been connecting platforms, manufacturers, and repair suppliers to their prospects with enhanced digital capabilities via its proprietary SAAS options, in addition to companies like end-to-end synthetic intelligence digital transformation, sensible merchandising & sensible advertising and marketing. FREED has over 250 devoted professionals, from 22 totally different areas all over the world together with Larger China, South Korea, Canada, Sweden, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Nepal, the UK, Uzbekistan, and america of America, who mix their intensive expertise and experience in know-how, tourism, commerce, hospitality, and different industries to function in 10+ markets worldwide, serving 200+ high-profile shoppers and companions comparable to Samsung, China Cellular, China Life Insurance coverage, Metropolis of Seoul (Good Metropolis), The Non-public Workplace Of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, Google, FIFA World Cup, Match Hospitality, BMW and Hyundai Card.
In the meantime, Connexus Journey Restricted, established in 1948, was the primary journey agent registered in Hong Kong and now operates in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, specializing in company, leisure and MICE journey, providing a full vary of journey companies and digital reserving purposes to help seamless journeys.
Mr. Abel Zhao, Co-founder & CEO of FREED GROUP, mentioned, “We’re very happy with having Connexus Journey in our FREED household, as Connexus Journey is a reputation trusted by company, leisure and MICE travellers. We see great development potential for Connexus due to its lengthy historical past of fantastic companies and the synergies that will likely be generated between Connexus and FREED. The optimistic outcomes we envisage embrace enterprise alternatives spanning journey companies, e-commerce, advertising and marketing companies and model loyalty packages, all of which will likely be underpinned by a complete vary of digitalized companies and options. Finally, we anticipate Connexus Journey to comply with within the footsteps of FREED GROUP and remodel into a worldwide model.”
Mr. Eric Lau, Normal Supervisor of Connexus Journey, mentioned, “Connexus has been dedicated to offering high quality companies to prospects for the previous 70 years. This acquisition will speed up the digital transformation of our merchandise via new signature customer-facing journey purposes, which is able to embrace the supply of recent person experiences and efficiencies for our company travellers. On the similar time, we’ll leverage our place as a market chief and the event plans with FREED to develop our companies not solely in Hong Kong and China, but in addition to the markets the place FREED at the moment operates. We look ahead to embarking on a brand new chapter of improvement with the help of FREED GROUP.”
FREED GROUP’s know-how and companies have been acknowledged globally in recent times, together with the 2022 Expertise Pioneer by World Financial Discussion board, the 2021 Deloitte Expertise Rising Star, Grand winner of the 2021 United Nations UNWTO International Begin-up Competitors and the 2018 APAC ICT Grand Award, amongst many others. In June 2022, FreeD Group raised USD$15 million in a brand new funding spherical led by Daiwa ACA APAC Development Fund and ACA Companions Pte. Ltd.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Community the place she is the Editor-in Chief. She can also be chargeable for the each day operation and the monetary coverage. She holds a Bachelor’s diploma in Tourism Enterprise Administration from the Technical College of Athens and a Grasp in Enterprise Administration (MBA) from the College of Wales. She has a few years of each tutorial and industrial expertise throughout the journey business. She has written/edited quite a few articles in numerous tourism magazines.
