ABASTSOCIAL: A NEW SOCIAL E-COMMERCE

A NEW SOCIAL E-COMMERCE

The new e-commerce strives for founding social and environmental projects.

A group of entrepreneurs from Mataró (Barcelona) have started a new online shopping centre with a clear social aim: Abastsocial.com. This “socially conscious e-commerce” distributes a percentage of each sale in three fronts: donations to NGOs, funding for social and environmental projects that any person or association can propose and a commission network made by the web’s users of the website, so that each user receives a percentage of the money spent by the people they have invited, up to five people per commission lines. The company is currently working together with la Fundació Banc dels Aliments from Barcelona (the Food Bank Foundation) and the Catalan Federation of Entities against Cancer (FECEC). Abastsocial.com plans to extend their collaboration to a third NGO, this time an international one, to go with the increasingly globalised enterprise. There are more than four thousand products and services available, a wide yet coherent offer since the majority of them are bio and/or locally produced. The services directory is to be maximised because currently no other platform offers a good range of services that appeal both to the invidual consumer and to companies. Abastsocial.com offers to any person or association that signs up the possibility of transferring the virtual accrued to a real bank account. If they are able to build a wide commission network, individual users and associations will be able to get an extra income, a quite profitable endeavour in economically bleak times. The team of Abastsocial.com expects the initiative to set off so the projects society badly needs can be financed. For more information, you can visit the website or contact Abastsocial.com (+0034 93.516.64.91 or abastsocial@abastsocial.com).