Over 23% of users changed their preference of channels for buying daily commodities, medical care, and fresh grocery products, according to a recent iResearch report. Overall, users tend to favor JD and PDD more. The preference for Tmall has remained the same while Taobao has declined. JD has become Chinese consumers’ first choice for fresh […]
Suning.com
Suning.com is an e-commerce website with mobile apps and stores on major Chinese e-commerce platforms, owned by Suning.com Co., Ltd.
On 3 June 2016 Suning Commerce Group issued about 1.86 billion new shares to Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, for about 28 billion RMB.
During the year the company sold some properties to Zhang, making an extraordinary profit for the loss-making company.
In 2018, the listed company was renamed to Suning.com Co., Ltd.
In 2019, Suning.com acquired 80% stake of the Chinese division of Carrefour.
Sales & insights of China’s mid-year shopping festival (618) 2019
Taobao 618 Livestream 618, usually from mid-May to 18 June, is China’s largest mid-year shopping festival. This year’s Tmall 618, there were hundreds of domestic and foreign brands whose sales exceeded last year’s Double 11, with the highest growth rate exceeding 40 times. Taobao/Tmall 618 Performance With over 200,000 brands taking part. Innovative marketing campaigns […]
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 the top e-commerce platforms. Mobile Taobao’s daily active users surged by 63.4% on the very day of Double 11. Tmall had the highest growth in daily active users during the pre-sale […]
Tmall and JD had a combined market share of over 85% in China’s B2C e-commerce market
In China, the online retail B2C e-commerce grew by 28.4% to a US$226.38bn market in Q4 2018. Tmall took the lead, followed by JD, Suning, Vipshop, and Gome.
4 e-tailers’ Double 11 marketing tactics
The record-breaking 213.4 billion yuan gave this year’s Tmall Double 11 a good ending. Some turned their attention to the performance of top retailers and wanted to check out what they did to achieve such success. Double 11, named after Singles’ Day (or Bachelor’s Day) in China on 11 November, is the biggest shopping festival of […]
Top advertising companies and brands in China in Q3 2018
The top 20 companies accounted for 23.6% of total full media ad spending during the Q1-Q3 period. Internet companies debuted in the top 20 ranking of full media in H1 2018. Tmall, JD Mall, Coco-Cola, Suning, Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei, and Tencent were among the list of top buyers. By comparison, some emerging internet retailers paid attention […]
Double 11 statistics of top retailers & top 50 Tmall stores in 2018
The Double 11 rising on the popularity of China Singles’ Day (Nov 11) is growing bigger every year. Top e-commerce players all saw record-breaking sales on this very day. Sales on Tmall reached 10 billion yuan in 00:02:05, sales on NetEase Kaola exceeded 100 million yuan in 00:03:49, and GMV on Suning exceeded 100 million […]
Alibaba, Jingdong, and Suning among world’s top 50 retail brands in 2018
Amazon’s brand value has risen 42% to US$150.8 billion, retaining top billing as the world’s most valuable retail brand according to a Brand Finance report, while other e-commerce brands are in strong growth, such as Alibaba (up 58% to US$54.9 billion) and JD.com (up 47% to US$19.6 billion) as well as Germany’s Zalando (up 40% […]
China B2C online retail market overview 2017, led by Tmal and JD
China online retail market totaled 1,974.59 billion yuan (US$311.69 billion) with an increase of 41% YoY in Q4 2017 according to data from Analysis. China’s B2C online retail market reached 1,189.35 billion yuan (US$187.74 billion) with an increase of 43.2%.
Understanding China’s Retail Trends in 2018
China retail giant Suning held its annual spring conference this month; as the largest O2O retail enterprise in China, this meeting does not just announce Suning’s strategy and development goals for 2018, but also serves as a bellwether for the whole retail industry in China. Looking back at Alibaba and Suning’s 2017, it is possible […]
China online retail market overview for Q3 2017; led by Tmall and JD with 86% combined share
China online retail market totaled 1.8 trillion yuan (US$271 billion) in Q3 2017 with a growth rate of 38.7% YoY according to data from Analysis. The online B2C market reached 985.44 billion yuan (US$148.56 bn) with an increase of 39.1% YoY. The total transactions on Tmall grew by 47% YoY in Q3 2017 or 7.4% QoQ, […]
China online shopping market forecast 2017-2019
The total transactions of China’s online shopping market totaled 4.7 trillion yuan (US$680 bn) in 2016 with an increase of 23.9%; and, it’s estimated to reach 7.3 trillion yuan (US$1.06 trillion) in 2019. Tmall dominates China’s B2C online shopping market with over 56% market share.
14 Chinese retailers made it to Top 250 retailers list
Deloitte’s annual Global Powers of Retailing report identifies the 250 largest retailers around the world. JD.com ranks on top of all Chinese companies in the Top 250 retailers list.
Top e-commerce platforms in 2016
The top e-commerce platforms in China are JD, Tmall, and YHD in 2016 according to Kantar Retail.
China online shopping platforms market share Q3 2016
Total transaction value of China online shopping market reached 1.15 trillion yuan (US$166.85 billion) in Q3 2016, up 23.6% YoY or 2.6% QoQ, according to data from iResearch.