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Taobao Expands into Offline Retail Business

January 18, 2010

Last week, Taobao announced its entry into the off-line business, authorizing supermarkets, chain stores, and school shops to become Taobao’s official shopping service stores. The first line of 150 off-line authorized stores opened on January 16, 2010. Taobao plans to open over 30,000 authorized Taobao stores. It is reported that Hangzhou Taobao off-line stores are [...]

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China Online Shopping Forecast: B2C To Grow Faster

January 6, 2010

Analysys International, a tech & media consultancy firm based in China, released its forecast comparing China’s C2C and B2C online retail market. Analysis predicts more growth in B2C online retail business than C2C.

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China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 3 – Top C2C Websites

December 17, 2009

Here are the top four C2C online shopping websites in China according to CNNIC with market penetration rate, Taobao.com: 81.5% Paipai.com: 10.5% Youa.Baidu.com: 2% Eachnet.com: 1.8% Online shopping Penetration Rate by City Online shopping top B2C websites China Online Shopping Report 2009

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China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 2 – Top B2C Websites

December 15, 2009

The top B2C online shopping websites in China with market penetration rate: dangdang.com: 10.4% amazon.cn: 4.5% 360buy.com: 3.5% redbaby.com.cn: 1.6% 99read.com: 0.6% cncard.com: 0.5% m18.com: 0.5% newegg.com.cn: 0.3% Part 1: Penetration Rate by City

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China Online Shopping Statistics 2009 Part 1 – Penetration Rate by City

December 9, 2009

East coast cities (shown below in blue) showed high penetration rate of online shopping but the west (in brown) is a fast growing market with high potential. Beijing: 51.3% Shanghai: 52.6% Guangzhou: 35.2% Wuhan: 38.9% Xiamen: 36.7% Hangzhou: 34.7% Shenzhen: 34.1% Xi’an: 33.3% Jiujiang: 32.3% Tianjin: 31.8% Chengdu: 29.0% Luoyang: 27.0% Zigong: 24.0% Dongguan: 23.3% [...]

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China Online Shopping Report 2009: Apparel and Home Acccessories the most popular

December 7, 2009

By the end of June 2009, 26% (87.88 million) of China Internet users shopped online during the first half of 2009, with an increase of 38.9% compared with the same period of last year. “26%” is not a fantastic number; but, guess what? Over 85.7% China netizens had searched for product information during the first [...]

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Taobao Sales during Golden Week Reached 8 Billion RMB

October 10, 2009

China’s Golden Week (China’s National Day) online shopping market in China was heating up again. According to Taobao data, for the two weeks’ period including the National Day Golden Week, Taobao turnover reached nearly 8.0 billion yuan (or USD 1.17 billion), 120% increase compared with the same period in 2008. The National Day period, Taobao [...]

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Google China Launched Product Search Beta

June 15, 2009

Google China has announced the beta launch of  products search, which covers hundreds of e-commerce websites including its competitor’s online C2C store youa.baidu.com. Google China products search interface is quite similar to that of Google Products search: Not surprisingly, Taobao ranks high in most product specific searches. No doubt Google product search is helpful; yet [...]

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Taobao Field Guide

February 22, 2009

Taobao as part of Alibaba Group, is the largest online shopping marketplace for consumers in China. Taobao Field Guide is for people living in China, or anybody who is interested in the wacky ways of China’s largest online store. They offer a Field Guides to getting your Taobao account and how to get the most [...]

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