Retail & E-Commerce

Alibaba e-commerce marketplace highlights for Q3 2018

Alibaba’s annual active consumers increased by 25 million and reached 601 million in the 12 months ended September 30, 2018. Alibaba delivered robust revenue growth

Sales in EU expected to explode during Alibaba’s Double 11 shopping festival

Tmall Double 11 global shopping festival 2018 is expected to double its sales value in the UK, according to the e-commerce delivery firm ParcelHero.

China e-commerce grew 43.6% in Q3, accounting for 10.6% of FMCG

Sales of China’s fast-moving consumer goods grew by 6.3% year-on-year in Q3 2018. E-commerce saw sales growing by 43.6% in Q3 2018, accounting for 10.6%

China retail market up 9.2% to US$462B in Sep 2018; online up 27%

In September 2018, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 3,200.5 billion yuan (US$461.81 bn) in China, up by 9.2% year-on-year (nominal growth rate),

China’s flower e-commerce market in strong growth; to hit US$7 billion by 2021

In China, the flower e-commerce has been a 12.41 billion yuan (US$1.79 bn) market in 2017, approximately 10 times larger than it was in 2013.

This Chinese bookstore chain manages to be profitable and expanding

Sisyphe Books, originally from Zunyi City of Guizhou province in China, had opened 8 bookstores after 15 years of development. In the year 2008, Sisyphe

Why and how Chinese digital media Yitiao expanding to offline retail

Yitiao, a video-focused content producer and e-commerce start-up, opened its first three brick-and-mortar stores in Shanghai on September 22, 2018. Yitiao has been one of

Alibaba Taobao’s marketing strategy for Double 11 in 2018

The 1.6 million Taobao content creators want to tell you a different story about the 15-year-old Taobao from their perspective. To begin with, they have

China National Day golden week retail sales hit US$202 bn in 2018

Total sales of retail and food & beverage enterprises in China amounted to 1.4 trillion yuan (US$202.16 bn). The average daily sales increased by 9.5%

Secret of Taobao Global: turning individual overseas Chinese to online celebrities

One afternoon of a working day, a jewelry buyer Xiaotian went on a live broadcast in Hong Kong, calling the customer “Baby”, tried on and

China online retail exceeded US$593 bn in H1 2018, led by Tmall & JD

The transactions of the online retail market in China totaled US$593.18 bn in H1 2018, representing 22.7% of total retail sales. Meanwhile, the mobile shopping market

China cross-border e-commerce market overview H1 2018

Transactions of China’s cross-border e-commerce exceeded US$654 billion in H1 2018. The export business accounted for 77.1% while B2B took 84.6% in shares by transactions. Transactions of