Zilzar is the first global Business to Business (B2B) Halal e-Commerce platform connecting Buyers and Sellers. We were launched on October 29, 2014 during the 10th World Islamic Economic Forum in Dubai and the founders are Dato’ Vaseehar Hassan and Rushdi Siddiqui.
Zilzar is a combination of two words: ‘Zil’ is from Zillion and ‘Zar’ is from Bazaar, hence a marketplace ‘Connecting Halal Trade’ comprising of a large number of Buyers and Sellers who are product and service providers.
Zilzar has identified gaps for halal Buyers and Sellers in the Muslim Lifestyle Marketplace that include information gap, connectivity gap, community gap, access to market gap, integrity gap, and most urgently, a global platform gap for the entire ecosystem.
Zilzar hosts, facilitates, and monitors a SME driven eco-system based upon specific rules for halal consumption of food/beverage, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, fashion, travel, agriculture and etc. Halal certification by the recognized certification bodies is strictly required to give Buyers a ‘peace of mind.’
Zilzar Life was rolled out on June 10, 2015 to uniquely connect content and commerce. It is a content based website with a special focus on the multi-billion dollar verticals of Muslim Lifestyle Marketplace and it acts as a traffic feeder to Zilzar. The tagline for Zilzar Life is ‘Modern Muslim Lifestyle Portal’ as it captures content consumption of the digitally active Muslims.
Zilzar’s vision is to build and promote a global e-Commerce platform connecting SMEs with halal products and services that is projected to reach $5.8 trillion in year 2020*.
*Based on the State of the Global and Islamic Economy Report 2015/16