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Alibaba Group News, Statistics, Market Share and Insights

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) is a publicly traded Hangzhou-based group of e-commerce businesses, including B2B online web portals (alibaba.com, Chinese B2B website 1688.com), online retail (C2C marketplace Taobao, B2C Tmall.com) and payment services Alipay, a shopping search engine eTao.com and data-centric cloud computing services Aliyun.

Alibaba group started in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a B2B portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers. In 2012, two of Alibaba’s portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales.Alibaba Group raised over $21 billion from initial public offering (IPO roadshow presentation here) on NYSE on 19 September 2014. Before IPO, Alibaba made a lot of strategic investment and acquisitions both domestic and abroad; you can find more on the infographic here.

See comparison of Alibaba with Amazon or another Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com here. Check out 10 charts to know Alibaba Group: China's E-commerce Empire

Summary of Alibaba Group Key Businesses

  • Taobao: China’s largest online shopping destination
  • Tmall: China’s largest third-party platform for brands and retailers
  • Alipay: Largest third-party online payment service provider in China
  • AliExpress: global retail marketplace
  • eTao: shopping comparison search engine
  • 1688.com: Leading online wholesale marketplace in China
  • Aliyun: Developer of platforms for cloud computing and data mgmt
  • Alitalk: instant messenger for shoppers & merchants
  • Alimama: Leading online marketing technology platform
  • Cainiao: Operator of a logistics information platform
  • Juhuasuan: most popular online group buying marketplace in China

Looking into Taobao Light Store with Starbucks

February 4, 2020 By CIW Team

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

January 22, 2020 By CIW Team

a cooperative factory of Netease Koala in Shanghai

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

January 15, 2020 By CIW Team

live broadcast from a Pinduoduo factory

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

January 8, 2020 By CIW Team

Esquel

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 […]

Who dominates China mobile app stores, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, or ByteDance?

December 11, 2019 By CIW Team

Tencent has the highest internet user penetration of 97.3% in China in September 2019, followed by Alibaba, Baidu, and ByteDance. But, ByteDance saw the largest increase of 18.6% YoY in internet user penetration.

Alibaba officially listed on Hong Kong Exchanges

November 26, 2019 By CIW Team

10 customers and partners from eight different markets

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

November 26, 2019 By CIW Team

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 […]

China Double 11 shopping festival statistics 2019; best-selling brands

November 22, 2019 By CIW Team

Alibaba’s Tmall reached 10 billion yuan in less than two minutes (00:01:36) and 30 billion yuan in about 5 minutes (00:05:25), 50 billion in 13 minutes (00:12:49) in Double 11 Global Shopping Festival 2019.

Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi in the top 5 global smart speaker brands by total shipment in Q3 2019

November 19, 2019 By CIW Team

Global smart speaker market shipment reached 28.6 million units in Q3 2019 with an increase of 44.9% according to research company Canalys. Amazon led the market with 10.4 million smart speakers shipment.

Alibaba e-commerce platform highlights in Q3 2019

November 4, 2019 By CIW Team

In September 2019, Alibaba’s China retail marketplaces had 785 million mobile MAUs, representing a quarterly net increase of 30 million. Annual active consumers on Alibaba’s China retail marketplaces reached 693 million for the 12 months ended September 30, 2019, compared to 674 million for the 12 months ended June 30, 2019.

Alibaba business highlights in Q3 2019

November 4, 2019 By CIW Team

Alibaba’s Income from operations was RMB20,364 million (US$2,849 million), an increase of 51% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 39% year-over-year to RMB37,101 million (US$5,191 million).

Alibaba Double 11 festival 2019 expecting 500 million buyers

October 23, 2019 By CIW Team

Alibaba kicked off its 2019 Double Eleven Global Shopping Festival 2019 last week, with a focus on “new consumption,” “new business” and actively contributing to a greener society.

Alibaba’s Hema penetrating low-tier cities with Hema Mini supermarket

September 11, 2019 By CIW Team

On September 3, the 5th day of the opening of the Hema Mini in Shanghai’s Pujiang City Life Plaza, RMB 0.99 for Hangzhou cabbages and abalone for RMB 1.99 attracted the senior residents to rush buying. A shopping guide shouted: “steak is on sale, download Hema App and you are eligible to buy one get […]

Alibaba’s B2B retail platform Ling Shou Tong has reached 1.3 million mom-and-pop stores

September 4, 2019 By CIW Team

Alibaba’s B2B retail platform Ling Shou Tong has reached 1.3 million mom-and-pop stores as of August 2019 according to Lin Xiaohai, the Vice President of Alibaba Group and General Manager of the Ling Shou Tong division. That means that one out of six stores in the country is a Ling Shou Tong (LST) customer. According […]

China’s mobile internet users overview H1 2019; top 4 companies compared

August 20, 2019 By CIW Team

The monthly active users of China mobile internet dropped to 1.136 billion in June 2019 from 1.138 billion in March 2019 according to data from QuestMobile. China’s mobile internet users grew by 46.07 million in 2018 and slowed down in the first half of 2019 with only 5.7 million additional active users. Daily time spent […]

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