Alibaba Group is the largest online and mobile commerce company in the world in terms of gross merchandise volume (GMV) in 2013, according to the IDC GMV Report.
They operate their ecosystem as a platform for third parties, and they do not engage in direct sales, compete with their merchants or hold inventory.
Alibaba Group’s Major Businesses
Alibaba Group owns the largest online shopping platform Taobao.com on both PC and mobile. Tmall is a more premium version of Taobao mainly for (international and domestic) brands and retail platforms.
One B2B side, Alibaba runs 1688.com, local wholesale marketplace , and alibaba.com, China’s largest global online wholesale marketplace.
AliExpress is Alibaba’s cross border e-commerce website enabling consumers worldwide to buy direct from Chinese exporters.
Huge Gross Merchandise Volume on Alibaba Marketplaces
Total GMV on Alibaba retail marketpalce reached 270 billion from 255 million active buyers and 8 million active sellers in a twelve-month period ended on 31 March 2014.
There are still huge opportunities in lower-tier cities in China.
Alibaba Group Empire
This charts show key Alibaba marketplaces and services and the core related companies and affiliates.
Alibaba Company Scale and Size
Scale and Size of Alibaba Ecosystem Participants
Alibaba Eco-system
Buyers and sellers are at the heart of Alibaba ecosystem. Buyers and sellers discover, select and transact with each other on Alibaba platform.
Third-party service providers add value to Alibaba platform through service offerings that make it easier for buyers and sellers to do business. The third-party participants in Alibaba ecosystem include a payment services provider, logistics providers, retail operational partners, marketing affiliates, independent software vendors and various professional service providers.
The interactions between buyers and sellers create network effects in that more merchants attract more consumers, and more consumers attract more merchants.
In addition, Alibaba marketplaces are interconnected in that many buyers and sellers on one marketplace also participate in the activities on our other marketplaces, thereby creating a second-order network effect that further strengthens Alibaba ecosystem.
The nationwide infrastructure
The map above illustrates the nationwide infrastructure managed by Alibaba Group’s 14 strategic delivery partners according to data provided by them as of April 2014.
Source: SEC
Wow! Very interesting charts. No doubt that Alibaba is giantnormous and specially i’m noticing a remarkable growth on tmall.
Fashion brands are turning their eyes in the Chinese market, and which better than tmall to be their bridge.
I read on Fashionbi (http://fsh.by/RvhmVw) that a lot of brands have presence on the ecommerce platform and some of them are succeeding and other unfortunately don´t. Also in the research, they give you a very useful advices of how to improve your efforts on the platform and case-studies to analyze.
We will see how tmall turns out for western brands, maybe this could be the perfect link to reach the Chinese market.
mobile commerce is growing very fast in China. e.g., lifestyle mobile ecommerce Beyond (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id947269781?mt=8) is to connect American and European brands with Chinese consumers.
thank for alibaba
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This is a very interesting article for me, I want to own the most famous and successful online shop someday and an article like this one inspires me to be the best in what I do. Alibaba’s concept is wonderful and unique and the owner is so inspiring at the same time, no doubt he’s on top of his game. I have tried so many marketing tools and the one that works best for me is called Utail. Utail rewards your clients with discounts and amazing bonuses. It helps you reach your target sales. In short utail makes benefits you and your customers. You can purchase it at utail.com – happy shopping!
hmm, mobile commerce is growing very fast in China. e.g., lifestyle mobile ecommerce Beyond
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had been doing a little research on this. And he in fact ordered me
dinner simply because I discovered it for him…
lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU for the meal!!
But yeah, thanx for spending some time to talk about this issue
here on your blog.
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