Vamox growing leaps bounds Mox CEO highlights commitment to the last mile for e-commerce with the launch of its specialized subsidiary - The Andalusian logistics startup Mox continues to add milestones in 2021. The group began the year by being recognized as the best logistics startup of 2020 in the XXX edition of the Spanish Logistics Center Awards (CEL), starting its activity in the Lanzadera accelerator, promoted by Mercadona founder Juan Roig, and being recognized as the logistics startup with the most funds in their sights by investors consulted.

Now, Mox has just announced this month the launch of a new subsidiary focused on last mile delivery, Vamox, with which it adds a new company to specific solutions such as Supermox, DriverJobs or Logistic Mile. Thus, the Andalusian group responds to the increase in the weight of the last mile in the group's turnover since the beginning of 2020, a trend that has become widespread in the logistics sector in times of pandemic.

So stressed recently, the president of the employers ' logistics ONE, Francisco Aranda, pointing out that the last mile has gained weight due to the changes in the buying habits has generated the pandemic and the increase in the number of digital consumers, a phenomenon which affirmed that it was occurring in 2 large groups of sociological, young people and older than 45 years.

In fact, the possibilities of Mox due to its implementation in the last mile was the reason why Carlos Sabater, investment manager at Vas Ventures, highlighted the Sevillian group in the first quarter as one of the logistics startups to follow in 2021. Now, the creation of Vamox redoubles Mox's commitment to this segment, for which it has created a network of distribution centers in Spain led by its hub in San Fernando de Henares, the main logistics hub in Madrid.

Vamox growing leaps bounds Mox CEO highlights commitment

"For the Mox Group, the last mile is everything," Gregorio López, CEO of the Sevillian logistics startup, told. "We were born in 2016 when many did not know what it was, we seemed crazy at the time, but time seems to have taught us that we were on the right track," he adds, noting that this subsidiary is the result of years of work by its team.

"For more than 2 years, in the Mox Group we have been working this last mile specialized in ecommerce and retail," says Gregorio López. "Little by little we have been entering these sectors until the time has come to take a firm step with a team and a structure that supports this great project," he adds, highlighting the importance of this commitment for the logistics group, with a business model focused on the specialization in parcel for electronic commerce.

Vamox growing leaps bounds Mox CEO highlights commitment

"As goals for the short and medium term, is to position ourselves with an agent of draft to the national and international level thanks to our technology and resources," explains the CEO of Mox, which considers the rise of e-commerce in Spain is sustainable at the end of the pandemic of coronavirus, says that he has come to speed up processes that would have cost years to come if he had not given this circumstance.

Therefore, López emphasizes that the pandemic has generalized trends and has forced a process of digital transformation in a very short time to adapt the sector to what consumers demand. "Many users will have gotten used to ecommerce and this has meant a demand for logistics services that has caught many companies in the sector without being adapted. Vamox was born to fill these gaps and to provide specialized solutions for logistics ecommerce," he points out.

Vamox growing leaps bounds Mox CEO highlights commitment

For this reason, the CEO of Mox highlights that his new subsidiary fits into the immediate future of the sector. "The last mile is already a reality and the next steps will be focused on ultra-fast deliveries, incident management control through technological support and, above all, to be sustainable and increase environmental commitment. All this through an ecological fleet and urban hubs that avoid unnecessary displacements," he adds.

Looking to the immediate future, Gregorio López points out that the group is focused on strengthening Vamox. "It's growing in leaps and bounds and getting a position in the industry, worthy of praise," he explains, noting that this year they expect to close with more than 20 logistics warehouses around the country to support the development of your bet by the last mile, which aims to distribute more than 40,000 orders in the next few months of the hand of the large global companies in retail.

Vamox growing leaps bounds Mox CEO highlights commitment: These objectives are justified precisely as a response to the strong upturn in online demand, to which the logistics group seeks to respond with Vamox. "The rise of e-commerce, increased with the pandemic, is demanding logistics solutions that integrate technology, ecology and optimization of resources to manage large volumes of parcels and Vamox was born for this", emphasizes Gregorio López.

In addition, Mox expected to generate more than 500 jobs directly and indirectly for professionals of different profiles during its first year in march, including dispatchers, carretilleros or staff of office, among others, which will be added to the more than 1,000 dealers employees with the group to provide service in more than 40 cities.

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