Partnering with Wongnai and Lalamove
To provide Food Delivery and Professional Messenger Service
Thailand, Bangkok – 12th May 2016 – LINE officially announces “LINE MAN”, an on-demand professional services assistance app to serve the needs in your daily life, at any time. After releasing the Android beta version on Google Play on April 21st, 2016, LINE MAN is now available for both iOS and Android devices. It is the first localized O2O (Online to Offline) service from LINE Thailand aiming to help residents in Bangkok with their daily tasks.
LINE MAN launches with three main services. Additional services will be available in the near future.
The 3 main services include
- Messenger Service: Deliver your packages quickly and safely at any time
- Food Delivery: Order food from over 10,000 restaurants, and street food hawkers in Bangkok
- Convenience Goods: Make your life easy with 7-Eleven goods delivered to your door
Tutorial video of LINE MAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STNGgzK-bQ0
LINE MAN offers reliable services, available 24 hours a day ease of use by logging in with your LINE ID. All services can be tracked real time in the LINE MAN app and also through automatic notifications in LINE Messenger. Upon service completion, users can pay the service fee in cash directly to LINE MAN delivery person.
For the food delivery service, LINE MAN has partnered with Wongnai, the No.1 restaurant review app and portal in Thailand, to offer food purchase service from over 10,000 restaurants and street food hawkers around Bangkok. Users can choose from our recommended restaurants sorted by distance or popularity, based on Wongnai’s database, or search by typing in the restaurant name. After placing an order, LINE MAN will find the closest driver to the restaurant to help pre-purchase the food and deliver it quickly. In addition to the price of the food, there is a delivery fee calculated based on the distance (between the restaurant and the delivery location) with no additional charges. Moreover, Wongnai members can order food through LINE MAN within Wongnai app and website by selecting any restaurant that has the LINE MAN logo.
LINE MAN is an innovative platform offering best in class delivery service through its partnership with Lalamove, a market leader in on-demand delivery service with the largest fleet in Thailand. Users can conveniently request for a LINE MAN at their fingertips and relax while LINE MAN handles all the troublesome tasks for them. After the delivery is completed, users may even review LINE MAN with cute emoticons.
As for convenience good, LINE MAN can pick anything you need from 7 eleven stores in Bangkok, when it is not convenient for you to go yourself.
Ariya Banomyong, Managing Director of LINE Thailand stated “Online to Offline service (O2O) is one of the next big trend, given the mobile internet user growth and the transformation of user behavior in Thailand. LINE MAN is a new wave of this O2O service platform that helps connecting service providers to end-users.”
“LINE MAN is the first service that is fully implemented by our local team for Thai consumers. The team is very proud, and I would like to thank our partners Lalamove, and Wongnai for their relentless support. Stay tuned, as LINE MAN will be adding new services, and expand its service area in the future.”, he added.
As an added bonus, users can enjoy LINE MAN weekly promotions from famous restaurants around Bangkok! To order, simply tap on the promotion banner in the LINE MAN app.
For more information, please follow LINE MAN Official account [search ID: @lineman] and LINE MAN TH FB fanpage.
Download LINE MAN free via App Store and Google Play
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About LINE Corporation
LINE Corporation is based in Japan and develops and operates the LINE app for smartphones. Since launching in June 2011, the LINE app has grown into a global service used in 230 countries, ranking first in the free app category in 60 countries. LINE offers free one-to-one and group messaging, as well as free domestic and international voice and video calls. LINE also includes a wide array of social elements such as fun and expressive stickers, a personal Home, a Timeline, and numerous LINE family apps, including LINE games and LINE Camera. For more information about LINE, please visit http://linecorp.com/en/.
