Retail & E-Commerce

China retail market overview for Q1 2019; online grew by 15%, 23% of total

Total retail sales of consumer goods in China increased to US$1,457 billion in Q1 2019 and roughly 85.3% came from urban areas. Online retail sales

E-commerce companies investment in retail: China vs. the U.S.

Tmall Innovation Center is able to design and incubate products more precisely and efficiently based on data from 600 million consumers. It has successfully incubated

China announced new reduced import tax for 9 April 2019 onwards

China’s Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council decided to adjust the import tax on imported goods according to the website of the Ministry of

Pinduoduo and Taobao share over 137 million overlapping users

2018 marked the fourth wave of IPO fever with 42 companies going public. The overlapping users reached 137.87 million among Pinduoduo (272.6 million) and mobile

How the biggest shopping festival affects China e-commerce apps users growth, engagement, and loyalty

Online shopping has become a lifestyle in China. Let’s take a look at the influence of China’s biggest shopping festival Double 11 in 2018 on

Top mobile shopping apps in China 2019; penetration, usage, user profile

In China, 71.7% of mobile devices had shopping apps installed. Mobile Taobao has the highest install penetration of 52.5%. The 7-day user retention of new users is

P&G’s e-commerce sales on Alibaba Tmall grew by 1,000 times in 10 years

Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) has become one of the most well-known international brands in China since it entered the market 31 years

Online accounted for 21.2% of total consumer retail sales in Jan, Feb 2019

Total retail sales of consumer goods in China grew by 8.2% year-on-year to US$984.49bn in the first two months of 2019. Over 85% came from

Pinduoduo has risen to be the second largest e-commerce platform by total active users

Pinduoduo generated 471.6 billion yuan (US$268.6 billion) in GMV in the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2018, an increase of 234% year-on-year. This was driven by

Alibaba to help international brands launch 1,000 Tmall stores in 2019

Alibaba expects international and domestic cosmetics brands to open 1,000 stores this year on its Tmall platform to meet demand from Chinese consumers. Seven international

Meituan’s annual transacting users grew by 29% to 400M in 2018

Meituan reported total gross transaction volume (GTV) growth of 44.3% year-on-year to 515.6 billion yuan (US$76.65bn) in 2018. Annual transacting users increased by 29.3% year-on-year