Alibaba

Founded in 1999 by Jack Ma, Alibaba is an ecommerce group that currently represent about 70% of China's ecommerce and is based in Hangzhou. The company operates online with the Taobao, Tmall and AliExpress portals, which was founded in 2010. The Asian giant debuted in the stock market in 2014.

Postponed Shanghai Fashion Week will collaborate with the giant Alibaba Tmall to broadcast the autumn-winter 2020 fashion shows, which have been canceled due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Yoox to close its China website after joint venture with Alibaba

The other off-price platform of the group, The Outnet, exited the Chinese market in 2015. The objective now is to focus on full price websites in a partnership with Alibaba.

Alibaba, to the conquest of fashion in Europe with a new leader

The executive, based in Milan, was until now director of business development of the Chinese giant in the Italian market. Fontana joined Alibaba in 2015 from HiPay.

Alibaba boosts its sales up to 38 billion dollars in Single’s Day

Single’s Day sales skyrocket 25% exceeding last year’s number, when the day reached 30.8 billion dollars.

Alibaba beats Singles’ Day record: 31 billion dollars in seventeen hours

More than 200,000 global brands participated in Singles Day. Huawei and Apple new smartphone releases have been the big movers among shopping items.

Mei Chen (Alibaba): “Brands do not need to change to enter China, but they have to adapt”

The executive has worked for Alibaba for four years and had previously worked at Google. Mei Chen talks about the challenges that fashion companies have to enter the Chinese market.

The Swiss holding has announced today the launch of a new platform of Net-a-Porter inside the Luxury Pavilion, a destined luxury division inside Tmall.

The German ecommerce giant will open a pop up in Velarde street, in the Spanish capital, on October 2.

The founder of the Chinese ecommerce giant has left his position as president of the group, just as he announced last year. Daniel Zhang will relieve him to lead the company.

The company is specialized in the distribution of foreign fashion, cosmetic and electronic products in China and will continue to operate independently.

Yating Wu, former Unilever, is named as CEO of the joint venture between the Yoox Net-a-Porter Group (Ynap) and Alibaba to conquer Chinese consumers.

The Brazilian Alpargatas closed its first half with a net benefit of 18.4 million dollars, 44.7% more than the same period last year.

So far, American companies could only buy through the b2b platform of the group, representing one third of the buyers.

The Chinese company could begin its journey on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after the rules were changed to allow the entry of Chinese companies quoted in other countries.

Swedish fashion distribution group has planned to launch from autumn, with the aim of reaching a potential public of seven hundred million people.

Ecommerce Chinese platform strives to obtain a value worth 20,000 million dollars in the operation, which has planned to close in the second semester of the year.

The Spanish group of department stores and the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba have signed a partnership that addresses from trade agreements to technologic ones in order to speed up digitalisation.

The company, property of the Chinese fashion sourcing and distribution titan Fung Group, wants to refine further in the demand of Chinese consumers.

The Swiss luxury group has signed an agreement with the Chinese company founded by Jack Ma to introduce Yoox Net-a-Porter in the Asian country through the launch of two mobile apps and the opening of an online store in Tmall.

The event, which takes place on November 11 and offers thousands of products with discounts, marks its tenth anniversary this year. Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam are the countries on the group’s radar.

The founder of the Chinese ecommerce giant will hand over the role to Daniel Zhang, currently chief executive officer. Ma has pointed out that his exit will enable “younger and more talented” people to be at the front.

The Chinese ecommerce group is opening a new pop up store in Hong Kong where consumers will get personalised recommendations of clothes thanks to a technology based on data collected through the Taobao and Tmall platforms.

The Chinese ecommerce group has introduced a new online store that features a selection of designers and brands from JD’s own ecommerce platform.

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