AliExpress, Alibaba’s cross-border online retail platform, reached an accumulated 150 million overseas buyers, with a 50 million newly added users since April 2017. Meanwhile, its monthly visits exceed 200 million on the site worldwide.
Alibaba, Jingdong, and Suning among world’s top 50 retail brands in 2018
Amazon’s brand value has risen 42% to US$150.8 billion, retaining top billing as the world’s most valuable retail brand according to a Brand Finance report, while other e-commerce brands are in strong growth, such as Alibaba (up 58% to US$54.9 billion) and JD.com (up 47% to US$19.6 billion) as well as Germany’s Zalando (up 40% […]
Smart restaurants in China – retail expansion of the dining business
Koubei is one of Alibaba’s platforms that specializes in providing local services, an area where new retail is an emerging force. New retail is Alibaba’s concept of seamless digital integration of online and offline commerce.
Singapore Airlines partners with Alibaba to enhance the travelers experience
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Alibaba Group this week announced a comprehensive strategic collaboration aimed at enhancing the customer experience for travelers. The collaboration encompasses several players in Alibaba Group’s ecosystem including Fliggy, Alibaba Cloud, Alipay and Cainiao Network.
Alibaba cross-border B2B e-commerce report 2018
Alibaba.com, committed to helping SMEs to export and expand overseas market, has already become the biggest international trading platform. This platform has over 1,000 active overseas buyers and receives near 300 thousand inquiry orders every day. Alibaba.com app saw a year-on-year increase of 52% in active buyers and 269% in DAU. The number of exports […]
China’s top 10 cross-border export e-commerce apps 2018
The transactions of cross-border e-commerce in China reached US$1.22 trillion in 2017, with an increase of 20% from 2016 (US$1.01 trillion). The transactions of export e-commerce totaled US$0.84 trillion in 2016, up 22.49% from last year, and reached US$0.42 trillion in the first half year of 2017. The transactions of cross-border e-commerce in China is estimated […]
Alibaba buys into Focus Media to find New Retail synergy
Alibaba buys into China’s leading out-of-home (OOH) marketing network which covers 150 cities and creates 500 million daily offline impressions. Alibaba Group announced on July 19 that it will pay US$1.43 billion for a 6.62% share of Shanghai-based Focus Media. It will also acquire another 5% interest in it within the next 12 months. Alibaba […]
China’s B2B e-commerce exceeded US$3 trillion transaction in 2017
The transactions of B2B E-Commerce market in China reached 20.5 trillion yuan (US$3.07 trillion) in 2017, an increase of 22.75% year-on-year. The total revenues of B2B market in China reached US$5.24 billion, led by Alibaba and HC360. B2B E-Commerce revenues went up by 34.6% year-on-year to 35 billion yuan (US$5.24 bn) in 2017. Within this market, […]
How Tmall, Alibaba’s new retail, could transform RT-Mart
How can Alibaba change RT-Mart? Since Alibaba invested 22.4 billion yuan (US$3.43 billion) in the retail chain’s parent company, Sun Art Retail Group, the answer to this question has become much-anticipated. This is the largest attempt to transform a commercial retail enterprise along “new retail” lines in China so far. “I strongly believe that Alibaba’s […]
Cross-border e-commerce startup Xiaohongshu reached 100 mn users in May 2018
China’s e-commerce startup Xiaohongshu, or “Little Red Book,” has raised US$300 million with a valuation in excess of US$3 billion on May 31, 2018. Alibaba led this financing round, some famous investors GSR Ventures, Tencent Investment, GGV Capital, Genesis Capital, Tiantu Capital, Zhen Fund, and K11 Adrian Cheng have also participated.
[REPORT] China Shopping Behavior 2018; value growth of FMCG rebounded
For the first time since Kantar started tracking China’s shopping behaviors six years ago, the rate of total value growth increased over the previous year, from 3.6% in 2016 to 4.3% in 2017. In many ways, the “two-speed” phenomenon still exists, but higher speeds are now more prevalent, driven by premiumization. High-speed categories are steadily […]
Top Public Cloud in APAC in Q1 2018; Alibaba, Tencent among top 5
Within public cloud services market, Alibaba Cloud ranked second in the APAC region and fourth worldwide. In China, the top five cloud providers are all local companies. China now accounts for a third of the total APAC market and its share of the regional total is increasing each quarter. 81% of WeChat users playing Mini-Games […]
Alibaba’s first eWTP hub gone live in Malaysia 2018
Alibaba Group’s first eWTP hub outside of China has gone live in Malaysia. The milestone follows Alibaba’s partnership with the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) to work jointly to enable Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises to benefit from global trade.
China’s FMCG sales growth decelerates in Q1 2018
China’s growth of FMCG sales is weaker in Q1 2018 compared with previous quarters, while new retail accelerates the online and offline integration. Kantar Worldpanel reports that the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market in the first quarter of 2018 was relatively weak with value growing by just 2.3% in the latest 12 weeks compared to […]
Top selling brands on Taobao / Tmall in 2017
Influenced by the “double 12” shopping festival, the rankings of best-selling brands have changed greatly in December. In women’s clothing category, Taobao brands RUMERE, MG Xiaoxiang, and DAXI RETRO STYLING have broken into the ranking of top 10. In women’s shoes category, OCANDY, a web celebrity brand, has moved into the top 10. In men’s […]