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Alibaba-backed Ant Group going duo-IPOs in Hong Kong and Shanghai

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Ant Group, renamed from Ant Financial and the parent company of China’s largest payments platform Alipay and leading provider of financial services technology, announced its concurrent initial public offering (“IPO”) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR board (“SSE STAR” market) and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “SEHK”).

Alibaba launched Tmall Luxury Soho, targeting Gen-Z luxury shoppers

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Alibaba quietly launched Luxury Soho, a new channel on the Tmall e-commerce platform targeting young and value-conscious luxury shoppers. Coach, MCM among the first to join Luxury Soho Luxury Soho is named after New York’s fashionable Soho district. It’s created as a solution to help luxury brands attract younger consumers as well as those who […]

Alibaba takes on Pinduoduo with Taobao Special Offer

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Along with Taobao’s “special offer edition”, there are also “super factory plan” and “10 billion production area plan”, three major initiatives that Alibaba uncovered asd three pillars of Taobao’s C2M strategy.

Alibaba launched its own snacks brand Bonbater

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Bonbater, a snacks brand owned by Alibaba with rising popularity on Taobao, is recently revealed by the Chinese media. What are Alibaba’s advantages of running its own brand? The official business registration information shows Bonbater’s dealer is Hangzhou Xinxuan E-Commerce Co., Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taobao. The company’s former legal representative is […]

Looking into Taobao Light Store with Starbucks

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If you open mobile Taobao and search “Starbucks”, you may see a new page completely different from before. In the past, when users search an established brand, the corresponding result would be the flagship store. The link to the flagship store will be displayed on the top of the page, with other various relevant goods […]

The gap behind China’s e-commerce factories

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This is the third part of a three-part series on e-commerce companies’ exploration and collaboration with the manufacturing industry. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. You can download the full eBook here. Compared with manufacturing, China’s internet companies know more about how to interact with consumers. E-commerce factories is an attempt to promote manufacturing […]

Pinduoduo and Taobao’s manufacturing strategies

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This is the second part of a three-part series on e-commerce companies’ exploration and collaboration with the manufacturing industry. Read part 1 here. You can download the full eBook here. E-commerce giants are speeding up their deployment of factories. C2M, or customer to the manufacturer, is the direct connection between the customer and the manufacturing […]

Insights of e-commerce and manufacturing collaboration in China

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This is the first part of a three-part series on e-commerce companies’ exploration and collaboration with the manufacturing industry. You can download the full eBook here. E-commerce factory is the collaboration of the manufacturing industry and the internet. Under the circumstances of retail sector being depressed while the traffic of e-commerce reaching the peak, the […]

Alibaba officially listed on Hong Kong Exchanges

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba” or the “Company”) (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988) has officially listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) today, successfully going public in Hong Kong.

Top digital advertising companies in H1 2019, led by Alibaba and ByteDance

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ByteDance, the company owning several popular apps in China including TikTok and Toutiao, has surpassed Baidu in the first half of 2019, becoming China’s second-largest digital advertising media business, according to the latest report of consulting firm R3. ByteDance now accounts for close to a quarter (23%) of China’s digital advertising market, close to 50 […]

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