The world’s largest road travel marketplace BlaBlaCar acquires Ukrainian Octobus, a powerful cloud service for managing bus&coach business which maintains sales and distribution, CRM, revenue management, fleet efficiency.
Oleksiy Lazorenko, CEO of BlaBlaCar in Ukraine: “The Ukrainian bus market has great potential. Unlike European countries, the Ukrainian market consists of hundreds of bus operators… We will offer carriers a technology with which they can provide an optimal online presence, optimize their business processes, focusing on the key tasks of their business, the quality of services provided for passengers, and, as a result, increasing sales.”
Ivan Kirov, CEO of Octobus: “For bus carriers, the system will remain an independent tool for managing inventory and business processes, while existing BlaBlaCar partners will be able to use the service for free.”
- Recently Blablacar announced to open an engineering hub in Kyiv for technological and product solutions, first of all, to develop GDS — global distribution system.
- In 2019 the company bought the bus ticket service Busfor.ua and ready to further growth.
via Interfax-Ukraine
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