iFresh Announces Engagement with Western Union, to Provide a Fast and Easy Payment Solution
January 16 2018 - 7:30AM
iFresh Inc. (NASDAQ:IFMK), a leading Asian American grocery
supermarket chain and online grocer, announced today that it
engaged Western Union Company, a leader in global payment and money
transfer services.
Effective immediately, four of the six iFresh locations in New
York City will provide Western Union™ services, including Money
Transfer, Money Order, and Bill Payments. Western Union
service will be rolled out in the remaining two iFresh locations in
New York City during 2018.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of iFresh, Mr. Long Deng
commented, “By working with Western Union to provide global payment
services, iFresh is continuing to engage the local community by
providing a fast and easy payment solution for customers, allowing
them to send money in the United States and overseas to more than
200 countries and territories.”
“At Western Union, we continue to connect the dots across the
world as we link reputable brands, popular with our money transfer
customers, to our global agent network in more than 200 countries
and territories,” said Rocco Pilla, Regional Vice President,
Western Union.
“We want to make it convenient for consumers to move money
wherever and whenever they need to. Our collaboration with iFresh
supports our network expansion strategy of operating in the
communities in which our customers live and work,” Rocco Pilla
said.
About iFresh Inc. iFresh Inc., headquartered in
Long Island City, New York, is a leading Asian American grocery
supermarket chain and online grocer. With nine retail supermarkets
along the US eastern seaboard (with additional stores in Glen Cove,
Miami and Connecticut opening soon), two in-house wholesale
businesses strategically located in cities with a highly
concentrated Asian population, and six iFresh-managed stores,
iFresh aims to satisfy the increasing demands of Asian Americans
(whose purchasing power has been growing rapidly) for fresh and
culturally unique produce, seafood and other groceries that are not
found in mainstream supermarkets. With an in-house proprietary
delivery network, online sales channel and strong relations with
farms that produce Chinese specialty vegetables and fruits, iFresh
is able to offer fresh, high-quality specialty produce at
competitive prices to a growing base of customers. For more
information, please visit: http://www.ifreshmarket.com/.
About Western UnionThe Western Union Company
(NYSE:WU) is a leader in global payment services. Together with its
Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and Western Union Business
Solutions branded payment services, Western Union provides
consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to
send and receive money around the world, to send payments and to
purchase money orders. As of September 30, 2017, the Western Union,
Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services were offered through a
combined network of over 550,000 agent locations in 200 countries
and territories and over 150,000 ATMs and kiosks, and included the
capability to send money to billions of accounts. In 2016, The
Western Union Company completed 268 million consumer-to-consumer
transactions worldwide, moving $80 billion of principal between
consumers, and 523 million business payments. For more information,
visit www.westernunion.com.
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Dragon Gate Investment Partners LLC
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Email: ifmk@dgipl.com
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