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Accor and Alibaba form strategic partnership
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International hospitality group Accor and e-commerce giant Alibaba have entered a strategic partnership to develop a series of digital applications and loyalty programs.
Topics: accors, chinese, partnership, travellers, alibaba, accor, consumers, form, china, strategic, consumer, services. -
AliExpress to shorten delivery times in Europe by 30%
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AliExpress will shorten its delivery times in some parts of Europe by 30 percent. This is the result of a new air route AliExpress has announced. The commercial route between China and Spain will start this month. The popular Chinese marketplace AliExpress is not only known for its cheap prices,… Continue reading
Topics: aliexpress, air, spain, delivery, europe, times, shorten, route, china. -
Alibaba Group eyes 1 billion users within five years
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Alibaba Group says it aims to serve more than 1 billion consumers and exceed RMB10 trillion gross merchandise volume by 2024.
Topics: alibaba, consumer, digital, consumers, million, technology, billion, business, annual, users, zhang, group, china, eyes. -
Alibaba launches Luxury Soho, a digital fashion community and outlet centre
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Alibaba has launched a new platform Luxury Soho, targeting young, value-conscious aspirational shoppers, and helping high-end brands quit surplus inventory.
Topics: digital, ways, consumers, china, online, fashion, able, outlet, centre, luxury, community, stores, alibaba, products, soho, brands, launches. -
Alibaba taps international influencers to sell more globally
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For years, Chinese e-commerce exporters have been learning the ins and outs of ad placement on Facebook, Instagram and other mainstream social media platforms to reach customers around the world. But they recently spotted a new way to grab people’s attention, one that has never felt more familiar. Video influencers. Shopping via videos is currently […]
Topics: world, sell, international, china, live, globally, merchants, influencers, sellers, market, techcrunch, alibaba, aliexpress, taps, videos, chinese. -
Alibaba ‘on the right side of trade war’ says Tsai
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Alibaba executive chairman Joe Tsai confident his company is on the right side of the trade war between the US and China.
Topics: platform, war, right, china, billion, million, retail, tsai, chinese, trade, economy, alibaba. -
Alibaba’s Singles Day next week will be ‘grander than ever’ predicts analyst
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While eye-popping sales numbers have become routine for Alibaba’s Singles Day on 11.11, Forrester senior analyst Xiaofeng Wang expects this year’s event will be “grander than ever”.
Topics: china, sales, social, day, services, online, complex, singles, grander, analyst, alibabas, consumers, predicts, week. -
Amazon Bans 600 Chinese Brands From Selling on Its Platform
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The ecommerce company banned 3,000 seller accounts and 600 brands from China.
Topics: china, ecommerce, chinese, platform, business, according, brands, bans, fraudulent, amazon, reviews, selling, action, sellers. -
Amazon China to close local marketplace and place more focus on cross-border
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Amazon has finally given up the fight with Chinese online shopping giants to capture the domestic market. On Thursday, the Seattle-based e-commerce company announced it will shut down its marketplace on Amazon.cn, which connects mainland Chinese buyers and sellers, while other units of its local venture will stay intact. “We are working closely with our […]
Topics: amazon, sellers, global, marketplace, crossborder, china, market, focus, close, goods, ecommerce, business, place, local, chinese. -
Amazon China to close mainland store as losses mount
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Amazon China is about to stop selling local goods to local shoppers.
Topics: amazon, services, losses, chinese, online, china, market, goods, store, close, local, mount, mainland. -
Apparel from Plastic Waste Driving DTC Fashion Brands
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A lot of plastic waste is either going into landfills or sitting around in stockpiles. An unlikely savior, the fashion industry, is now buying a lot of that plastic. Here are five direct-to-consumer brands that are successfully making products out of recycled plastic and other recycled material.
Topics: water, products, bottles, dtc, waste, plastic, company, driving, apparel, brands, rothys, china, yarn, recycled, fashion. -
Apple limits online sales of iPhone as stocks shrink
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Apple has placed restrictions on bulk purchases of its iPhones in some Asian territories after the coronavirus outbreak caused interruptions to supply.
Topics: iphones, apple, mainland, outlets, kong, month, territories, shrink, iphone, retail, online, sales, china, outbreak, limitations, limits, stocks. -
Australia’s C/MEO Collective launches on Tmall
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Women’s fashion label C/MEO Collective has started selling on Chinese mega online marketplace Tmall.
Topics: cmeo, labels, australias, fashion, australian, stores, brands, collective, launches, retail, china, tmall. -
Australia’s Chemist Warehouse to open brick-and-mortar store in China
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Australia's Chemist Warehouse is opening its first brick-and-mortar store and launching on a new online marketplace in China.
Topics: open, chemist, retail, marketplace, alibabas, zhou, brickandmortar, australias, warehouse, tmall, china, crossborder, jian, australia, store. -
COVID rapid tests available on e-commerce in China for the first time
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China is allowing the public to take COVID-19 rapid antigen self-tests for the first time as infection numbers hit a two-year high in recent days. Online marketplaces including JD.com and Meituan are now taking pre-orders for home test kits from government-approved manufacturers, including Shenzhen-based gene giant BGI. The products will also be available through drugstores […]
Topics: techcrunch, kits, results, china, rapid, testing, ecommerce, test, selftest, tests, available, pcr, covid, antigen. -
China Is Dominating Ecommerce
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In China, a drab gray Mao suit was once the required attire for men and women. No longer. The county is poised to become the largest luxury apparel market worldwide by 2025. With a 2020 population of 1.4 billion and a flourishing middle class with an appetite for foreign luxury goods, China is dominating ecommerce.
Topics: shoppers, ecommerce, dominating, online, dutyfree, luxury, chinese, china, market, goods. -
China Roundup: Alibaba’s Hong Kong listing and Tencent’s new fuel
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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The earnings season is here. This week, long-time archrivals in the Chinese internet battlefield — Alibaba and Tencent — made some big revelations about their […]
Topics: tencents, big, million, kong, techcrunch, roundup, listing, china, alibaba, chinese, services, alibabas, company, fuel, billion, hong. -
China Roundup: Xi’s power on bitcoin, the rise of Alibaba’s new rival
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Welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of the latest events that happened at major Chinese tech companies and what they mean to tech founders and executives around the world. Alibaba’s nemesis Alibaba’s new rival is shaking up China’s internet landscape. This week, four-year-old e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo displaced JD.com to be the fourth-most valuable […]
Topics: power, jdcom, xis, alibabas, china, bitcoin, rural, chinese, rise, techcrunch, pinduoduo, tencent, blockchain, banking, roundup, alibaba, ecommerce, rival. -
China gets serious about antitrust, fines Alibaba $2.75B
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Chinese regulators have hit Alibaba with a record fine of 18 billion yuan (about $2.75 billion) for violating anti-monopoly rules as the country seeks to rein in the power of its largest internet conglomerates. In November, China proposed sweeping antitrust regulations targeting its interent economy. In late December, the State Administration for Market Regulation said […]
Topics: state, techcrunch, market, gets, antitrust, break, weeks, app, 275b, china, services, serious, fines, alibaba, violating, tech. -
China proposes antitrust law ahead of Singles’ Day shopping spree
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Debates over anti-competitive practices amongst China’s internet firms resurface every year in the lead up to Singles’ Day, a time when online retailers exhaust their resources and deploy sometimes sneaky tactics to attract vendors and shoppers. This year, just a day before the world’s largest shopping festival was scheduled to fall on November 11, China’s […]
Topics: ahead, china, antitrust, tencent, proposes, platform, techcrunch, internet, draft, day, spree, singles, jdcom, chinas, alibaba, industry, shopping, worlds, law. -
China takes first step to banning single-use utensils, plastic bags
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission has revealed plans to cut the production and use of single-use plastic in China in the next five years.
Topics: services, country, bags, china, using, step, ban, singleuse, utensils, takes, delivery, food, waste, banning, yearsby, nondegradable, plastic. -
China to ship 3 billion parcels during post-COVID Singles’ Day
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China’s e-commerce behemoths Alibaba and JD.com again claimed to have set records during the world’s largest shopping event, Singles’ Day. The figures can often be gamed to paint a rosy picture of perpetual growth, journalists and analysts have long observed, so they are limited metrics for measuring the firms’ performance or Chinese consumers’ purchasing power […]
Topics: ship, china, postcovid, jdcom, shopping, day, singles, techcrunch, delivery, workers, parcels, alibaba, speed, logistics, billion. -
China’s growing digital influence in Africa
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There’s been a heap of China in Africa coverage over the last decade, but very little of it is focused on tech. In part, because the country’s engagement with African startups is light compared to its deal-making on infrastructure and commodities. Now, that all looks to be shifting. TechCrunch has tracked moves by a number […]
Topics: china, strategic, shiftingtechcrunch, africa, chinas, theres, influence, digital, startups, signal, tracked, sector, techcrunch, growing, tech. -
Chinese Amazon aggregator Nebula Brands raises $50M led by L Catterton
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2021 has been a rosy year for China-based Amazon vendors looking for exits. Roll-ups, or brand aggregators, have been flooding China’s export-oriented e-commerce market with capital to scoop up sellers. The roll-ups themselves are fueled by venture capital, such as Silicon Valley’s Markai, which recently raised its seed round of $4 million from investors like […]
Topics: capital, nebula, company, million, brands, l, amazon, raises, vendors, techcrunch, led, chinese, aggregator, round, rollups, china, catterton. -
Chinese consumers embrace shopping for pre-owned products online
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The popularity of shopping for pre-owned products online is on the rise in China.
Topics: cent, users, consumers, chinese, secondhand, products, idle, shopping, embrace, online, preowned, china, items, recommerce, fish. -
Chinese consumers embraced voice ordering on Singles Day
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More than 1 million orders were placed and processed through voice command via Alibaba’s Tmall Genie during its 11.11 Global Shopping Festival on Monday.
Topics: ordering, tmall, china, million, genie, shopping, embraced, singles, voice, speakers, speaker, smart, consumers, sales, chinese, day. -
Chinese online retailer rejects Australian daigou buyers
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Daigou buyers from Australia have been locked out of one China’s fastest-growing online malls.
Topics: selling, daigou, aomaijia, rejects, retailer, china, brands, australian, stores, online, buyers, chinese, product, products, supply. -
Chinese sellers on Amazon in hot demand by VCs and e-commerce roll-ups
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Chinese merchants selling on Amazon are having a moment. The scruffy exporters are used to roaming about suburban factory areas and dealing with constant cash flow strain, but suddenly they find themselves having coffee with top Chinese venture capital firms and investment representatives from internet giants, who come with big checks to hunt down the […]
Topics: hot, techcrunch, bbg, china, rollups, ecommerce, europe, brand, demand, amazon, brands, sellers, vc, chinese, selling, vcs. -
Consumers swamp Luckin Coffee app in wake of controversy
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Disgraced Chinese coffee giant Luckin has apologised to customers and promised business as usual following a widely publicised admission that the firm had fabricated sales figures.
Topics: consumers, wake, luckin, starbucks, offer, app, shares, china, swamp, coffee, controversy, loan, widely, sales, usual. -
Coronavirus Disrupting the Global Economy, Including Ecommerce
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When the coronavirus outbreak emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, Chinese authorities asserted that it was localized, albeit in an area with a large population and many manufacturing plants. Then the virus spread to other areas of China.
Topics: global, including, ecommerce, coronavirus, chinese, economy, flights, air, goods, plants, delivery, sales, demand, disrupting, china. -
Coronavirus may fundamentally change retail across Asia
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The coronavirus is driving many Asian consumers to shop online - and it could mark the early stages of a long-term fundamental shift in the region’s retail industry.
Topics: mainland, cent, online, stores, mall, fundamentally, orders, coronavirus, hktv, china, retail, change, month, asia. -
DHL China to start drone deliveries
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DHL China is to start delivering goods by drones, cutting the delivery time on a route in Guangzhou from 40 minutes to just eight.
Topics: start, deliveries, china, dhl, intelligent, logistics, delivery, smart, solution, express, drone, ehang. -
Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years
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The bottled beverage industry wasn’t what Genki Forest’s founder, Binsen Tang, initially set out to tackle. The company aims to reach $1.2 billion this year.
Topics: datadriven, genki, tang, tech, beverage, iteration, forest, giant, ecommerce, helped, techcrunch, market, d2c, products, chinese, chinas, china, 6b, manufacturing, brands. -
Digital Payments in China Are Cheap and Convenient
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In "China Is Dominating Ecommerce," contributor Marcia Kaplan addressed that country's innovation in online shopping. Digital payments in China are equally innovative. I'll address what that could mean for North American merchants in this post.
Topics: credit, fees, consumers, payment, merchants, china, cheap, card, north, pay, payments, convenient, digital. -
Ermenegildo Zegna joins Tmall Luxury Pavilion
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Ermenegildo Zegna, a global leader in luxury menswear, has launched a flagship store on Tmall Luxury Pavilion.
Topics: menswear, joins, china, ermenegildo, brand, tmall, zegna, luxury, store, online, consumers, pavilion. -
Europe’s quick-commerce startups are overhyped: Lessons from China
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More than 10 companies currently compete across Europe with an instant grocery delivery business model. Half of them were established in 2020, the year of the pandemic.
Topics: overhyped, quickcommerce, delivery, grocery, lessons, business, europes, instant, million, china, techcrunch, raised, startups, billion, models, online, model. -
Facebook’s regulation dodge: Let us, or China will
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Facebook is leaning on fears of China exporting its authoritarian social values to counter arguments that it should be broken up or slowed down. Its top executives have each claimed that if the U.S. limits its size, blocks its acquisitions or bans its cryptocurrency, Chinese company’s absent these restrictions will win abroad, bringing more power […]
Topics: facebooks, facebook, zuckerberg, chinese, values, regulation, think, dodge, emphasis, tech, let, techcrunch, data, world, china, companies. -
Farfetch China opens flagship on JD
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Farfetch China has opened a flagship store on JD, one of its strategic investors.
Topics: opens, luxury, flagship, platform, farfetch, market, technology, strategic, china, jd, access, chinese. -
Fashion wholesale marketplace JOOR opens China office
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JOOR, an online marketplace that connects fashion brands and retailers around the world, has opened its first China office in downtown Shanghai as it eyes growth in the region. The 11-year-old New York-based company works as a virtual showroom for brands, which traditionally would meet with their retail partners in physical venues to showcase the […]
Topics: brands, opens, techcrunch, retailers, volume, shanghai, world, office, china, partners, joor, fashion, wholesale, marketplace, company. -
Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China
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San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba’s Alipay to offer digital payments between Africa and China.
Topics: digital, alibabas, africa, network, flutterwave, companies, partner, payments, china, alipay. -
Grocery shopping online in China booms, even after stores reopen
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Grocery shopping online is poised for explosive growth in China, with more than half consumers saying they are buying more online even after stores reopen.
Topics: chinese, online, stores, billion, china, consumers, world, shopping, globaldata, booms, grocery, growth, covid19, reopen. -
How Meituan is redefining food delivery in China with drones
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On a congested sidewalk next to a busy mall in Shenzhen, a 20-something woman uses a smartphone app to order a milk tea on Meituan, a major food delivery company. In less than 10 minutes, the pearl-white drink arrives, not on the back of one of the city’s ubiquitous delivery bikes, but descending from the […]
Topics: meituan, china, delivery, techcrunch, system, redefining, food, drone, meituans, level, chen, drones. -
How to Source Products from Chinese Manufacturers
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This author dives into how to source products from Chinese manufacturers including business licenses to look out for, communication tips & more.
Topics: source, manufacturers, company, chinese, sales, youre, manufacturer, china, business, products, manufacturing. -
How to win at China’s New Retail
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New Retail uses technology to merge online, offline, logistics, big data, cloud computing, entertainment and social media into a seamless shopping experience.
Topics: chinese, consumers, data, media, products, win, social, brands, china, market, retail, chinas. -
Is China building the metaverse?
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A heated debate is going on about the race between the United States and China to dominate in AI. But perhaps the more strategic question is whether China is building the metaverse.
Topics: ai, building, lead, vast, china, social, metaverse, techcrunch, trying, build, chinese, technologies. -
Is it time to reassess importing products from China?
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Like many online retailers, My Event Décor imports products from China. President Donald Trump’s recent swathe of tariffs on imported Chinese-manufactured goods, as well as the ongoing and increasingly violent street protests in Hong Kong over perceived Chinese interference, makes me nervous.
Topics: importing, suppliers, australian, increasingly, products, alibaba, tariffs, reassess, chinese, items, revenue, décor, china. -
JD Worldwide to introduce more Korean brands in China
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JD Worldwide has teamed with LG and Korea International Trade Association (KITA) to introduce more Korean brands to Chinese customers.
Topics: jd, kita, china, introduce, lg, korean, chinese, partnership, brands, worldwide, south, products. -
JD fosters local stalls and small stores in China
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Chinese e-commerce giant JD is moving to stimulate small and medium enterprises nationally by providing supply chain and service support for the employment of more than 5 million people.
Topics: small, supply, support, stores, local, china, stall, stalls, employment, jd, economy, firm, fosters, provide. -
JD wants its My Pet Profile to transform animal lives across China
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JD has launched the “My Pet Profile Initiative” so its customers can receive recommendations for pet products and services.
Topics: improve, customers, lives, transform, owners, wants, pets, products, china, animal, initiative, profile, marketing, jd, pet. -
Jack Ma talks about the key to Alibaba’s success
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Forbes Media has presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Alibaba Group founder and partner Jack Ma, hailing the impact of Alibaba since its launch.
Topics: small, talks, businesses, million, forbes, key, success, consumers, alibabas, china, entrepreneurs, alibaba, jack, ma, financial. -
Japan’s Lixil Group launches online in China with JD
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Japanese housing equipment company Lixil Group has launched a flagship store on JD, where it will showcase four of its brands: Grohe, American Standard.
Topics: china, products, chinese, bathroom, japans, jd, online, lixil, launches, solutions, flagship, kitchen, highend, group. -
Kindle’s China future in doubt after disappearing from online shelves
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Since Kindle began shipping in China nearly nine years ago, the e-book giant has garnered a loyal following in the country. The journey has never been easy, thanks to regulatory hurdles around digital content. Recently, there are signs that the Amazon-owned e-book business is scaling back some of its operations in China. Kindle’s official store […]
Topics: china, shelves, techcrunch, doubt, amazon, books, official, disappearing, kindle, versions, store, online, chinese, future, ebook, kindles. -
Little romance likely for China retailers on Valentine’s Day
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The coronavirus outbreak is set to rob retailers of all the romance on Valentine’s Day tomorrow according to analysts from OC&C Strategy Consulting.
Topics: restaurants, consumers, occ, outbreak, retailers, martin, orders, little, day, retail, romance, valentines, online, likely, china. -
Livestream e-commerce: Why companies and brands need to tune in
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Livestreaming is a new pillar that brands must consider when building omnichannel marketing strategies, joining the trinity of in-store experiences, traditional e-commerce and social media.
Topics: livestream, brands, shop, techcrunch, buy, million, shopping, china, raised, companies, livestreams, ecommerce, commerce, products, need, tune. -
Livestreaming in China booms during coronavirus crisis
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Taobao Live, Alibaba Group’s livestreaming platform, saw a sharp rise in brand activity this past month as merchants slowly resumed their operations and looked for ways to reach consumers in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
Topics: china, million, live, online, booms, taobao, sales, consumers, coronavirus, stores, cent, brand, livestreaming, crisis. -
Lower-tier cities drive boom in online shopping in China
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Online shopping in China is booming during the coronavirus outbreak, with twice the number of first-time users in lower-tier cities moving online compared to those living in upper-tier cities.
Topics: cent, china, cities, gfk, shopping, products, drive, consumers, lowertier, consumer, commerce, purchase, boom, online. -
Markai raises $4M from Pear VC, Sea Capital and others to buy Chinese e-commerce brands
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China has attracted yet another e-commerce roll-up to enter its gargantuan e-commerce market. Markai, founded by two Stanford business school grads, has joined the fray to buy out Chinese brands seeking global consumers. So-called brand roll-ups, or e-commerce aggregators, have cropped up in Europe and the U.S. over the past few years. Usually venture-backed, they […]
Topics: aggregators, brands, supply, chinese, ecommerce, brand, team, raises, china, vc, small, sellers, spencer, capital, pear, sea, techcrunch, markai, buy. -
McDonald’s China links loyalty program to Ele.me app
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McDonald’s customers in China can now earn loyalty points when they order a Big Mac through Ele.me, Alibaba Group’s on-demand delivery platform.
Topics: loyalty, mcdonalds, links, eleme, virtual, app, program, china, membership, members, delivery. -
Missfresh racks up $495 million in funding as China’s e-grocery booms
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The COVID-19 lockdown around the world introduced online grocery to many shoppers for the first time, boosting an industry that had long drawn skepticism. In China particularly, the older generations often worry about buying perishable food items without scrutinizing them in person. Still, venture investors are bullish on the future of online grocery. One beneficiary […]
Topics: online, china, racks, investors, venture, funding, egrocery, million, grocery, delivery, lockdown, techcrunch, missfresh, chinas, capital, booms, research. -
Moda Operandi launches in China
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Fashion-discovery platform Moda Operandi has appointed Ming Yang as the firm’s new MD for China.
Topics: moda, strategy, launches, chinese, platform, operandis, china, operations, operandi, ming, luxury. -
Muji convenience-store concept opens at JD HQ
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A 605sqm Muji convenience store called Mujicom, has opened in the headquarters of e-commerce giant JD with 71 seats for dining in.
Topics: jd, opens, goods, concept, china, retailer, store, mujicom, muji, workshop, convenience, food, hq, working, conveniencestore. -
Nestle starts selling Starbucks-branded coffee in China
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FMCG giant Nestle started selling Starbucks-branded coffee in Mainland China today, seeking to tap growth in a market where it says coffee consumption per capita remains low compared to global standards. Nestle last year paid US$7.15 billion for exclusive rights to sell the US chain’s coffees and teas globally, and began selling Starbucks-labelled products in […]
Topics: starbucksbranded, selling, products, capsule, nestle, capita, china, coffee, compared, consumption, starts, market. -
News Cart for August 14th
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Greetings, Fuelings! This week’s News Cart tackles tariffs, Tumblr and terminated shipping contracts. Trump slapped China with another 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of imports, but it won’t go into effect on some items until mid-December. Merry Christmas, everyone! FedEx and Amazon keep their domestic breakup amicable, but there’s one last box of [...]
Topics: 14th, tumblr, international, aug, china, chinese, tariff, billion, wont, cart, worth, contract. -
News Cart for July 31st
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Hey there ECFuelers, Time to refill the tank! Some of our high-octane e-commerce stories include an eBay fulfillment service, Salesforce’s expansion into China and Walmart’s $1 billion in e-commerce losses. We won’t judge you for rubbernecking as Facebook collides with antitrust regulators and a lawsuit over its heavily criticized $5 billion privacy settlement. It’s all [...]
Topics: ecf, 31st, data, privacy, antitrust, amazon, store, facebook, cart, china, ecommerce, billion. -
Online shopping guide SMZDM surges 44% on China stock market debut
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When Chinese internet companies seek initial public offerings, they tend to look to the United States, where rules for profitability are less strict. SMZDM, an online shopping guide that few people outside China have heard of, has joined a small rank of internet startups that are trading on public markets in mainland China. SMZDM, short […]
Topics: wu, public, content, online, debut, china, million, yuan, techcrunch, guide, ecommerce, surges, users, stock, smzdm, community, market, chinese, shopping. -
Pandas wants to give Latin American businesses buying power in Asia
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Pandas connects Latin America's small businesses directly with Asian manufacturers to reduce logistical problems and high fees often imposed by importers and intermediaries.
Topics: capital, china, wants, buying, xin, pandas, techcrunch, america, ventures, technology, latin, preseed, power, american, asia, businesses. -
PayPal’s ambition and uphill battle in China
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Over the last few months, PayPal has been quietly gearing up for its expansion in China. At the recent Boao Forum for Asia, China’s answer to Davos, the American payments giant said its strategy for China is not to challenge the duopoly of Alipay and WeChat Pay. Instead, it wants to focus on cross-border business […]
Topics: fees, merchants, battle, paypals, crossborder, chinese, techcrunch, china, uphill, pay, overseas, payments, ambition, payment, foreign, paypal. -
Plant-based grocer Green Common takes first step into Mainland China
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Hong Kong plant-based grocery shop and cafe Green Common will launch online on Tmall Global at the end of this month, during the marketplace’s Black Friday event.
Topics: takes, green, including, tmall, restaurant, plantbased, step, brands, common, taste, products, omnipork, food, grocer, china, mainland. -
Russia and China partner to control trackable package flow
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Russian Post and China Post have agreed on the joint development of the cPacket logistics service. With this service, the two postal operators want to control the flow of small traceable packages that will be exchanged between Russia and China. The joint development is the latest effort of both countries… Continue reading
Topics: service, delivery, data, logistics, post, russia, control, trackable, package, partner, russian, china, crossborder, flow, quality. -
Selling to China: The World’s Largest Economy with Extraordinary Purchasing Power
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China is one of the world’s largest economies with an extraordinary purchasing power and a growing population. Even though starting…
Topics: worlds, economy, social, western, consumers, brands, sellers, shopping, local, online, chinese, china, selling, largest. -
Sephora China launches Tmall flagship
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Sephora China has launched a flagship store on Alibaba's Tmall Global, featuring brands including Fenty, Bon Parfumeur, Farmacy and Dermalogica.
Topics: sephora, launches, global, tmall, products, beauty, flagship, brands, vuchot, store, china. -
Shiseido and Alibaba to co-create products for Chinese consumers
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A new joint Shiseido and Alibaba office will house a team of around 20 Shiseido employees by next year
Topics: products, china, consumers, sales, alibaba, shiseido, brands, cocreate, tmall, consumer, chinese, shiseidos, cent. -
Shopify and China’s JD.com team up to capture cross-border sellers
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Two of the world’s largest e-commerce players are joining joined hands. Major Chinese online retailer JD.com has formed a strategic partnership with Ottawa-based Shopify to help global brands tap China’s enormous appetite for imported goods, as well as help Chinese merchants sell overseas. The news is turning heads in China’s cross-border e-commerce community. The first […]
Topics: jd, chinese, ecommerce, shopify, chinas, china, jdcom, capture, team, brands, goods, amazon, sourcing, crossborder, sellers, techcrunch. -
Singapore brands get gateway to China through Kinofy-run festival
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Singapore brands from the beauty, health and lifestyle sectors are about to gain additional exposure in Mainland China.
Topics: kinofyrun, crossborder, consumers, project, companies, brands, china, singapore, gateway, social, festival, chinese. -
Singles' Day Sales in China Hit $ 1 Billion in 85 Seconds for Alibaba
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This happened despite the tariffs and other challenges to Chinese technology.
Topics: online, billion, singles, china, hit, day, event, seconds, sales, alibaba, festival, products, worth, shopping. -
Starbucks China and Sequoia Capital launch technology investment plan
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Starbucks is to partner with investment company Sequoia Capital to invest in new technologies which will propel the company’s digital innovation in Mainland China.
Topics: innovations, digital, retail, investment, starbucks, china, sequoia, launch, companies, technologies, technology, capital, plan. -
Starbucks China launches world-first Starbucks Now store
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Starbucks China has opened its first Starbucks Now store – an express retail experience that integrates Starbucks physical and digital customer touch points.
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Starbucks and Alibaba team up in ‘Genie-us’ delivery service
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Starbucks and Alibaba have teamed up to allow consumers in China to order coffee using their Tmall Genie smart speaker.
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Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era
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The global trade crisis is a setback, but also an opportunity for logistics startups to show the value of digital platforms in an analog industry.
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Suning to open 10,000 new China stores next year
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Chinese O2O retailer Suning plans to open 10,000 new stores next year, capitalising on 'consumption upgrade' in China.
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Supply Chain Problems Upend the Global Economy
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Nothing highlighted the United States’ reliance on foreign manufactured goods more than the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Switzerland first on ecommerce index
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Switzerland is the new number one on the B2C E-commerce Index of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. It surpasses the Netherlands, which ended first in the previous two editions. For a few years now, UNCTAD ranks 152 countries on their readiness to engage in ecommerce. As usual,… Continue reading
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The Beginner’s Guide to ePacket Delivery: Everything Your Need to Know
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If you have any plans to ship some of your products from China, ePacket delivery is one of the most common options to do so. It's becoming rather typical for online stores and many types of business owners to purchase…
Continue reading The Beginner’s Guide to ePacket Delivery: Everything Your Need to Know
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The US, China tariff war: surge in imports and what it means for holiday shopping
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With consumer spending fueling 70% of the US economy, what impact is this tariff war having on shoppers? And with a 15% duty raised on imports to hit US soil by December 15th, how does this all impact retailers holiday shopping strategy?
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Tmall designers line up for New York Fashion Week
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Alibaba Group’s B2C platform Tmall has announced its lineup of designers that will hit the runway at New York Fashion Week this September.
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Tmall targets 1000 online cosmetics stores this year
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Alibaba’s Tmall has announced that it expects international and domestic cosmetics brands to open 1000 online cosmetics stores this year.
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Tse Sui Luen profits plummet as Hong Kong protests impact sales
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Tse Sui Luen profits plummeted in the first half as Hong Kong protests took their toll, especially during the September quarter.
Topics: china, trade, stores, retail, cent, luen, hong, mainland, sales, plummet, network, protests, kong, impact, profits, sui, tse. -
U.S., China Trade War Is Impacting Ecommerce
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The trade war between the United States and China has been going on for over a year. A new round of U.S. tariffs on additional Chinese goods is looming. What follows is my analysis of the effects on ecommerce in both countries and possible future consequences.
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Valued at $50M, Body404 wants to bring Chinese indie brands to the world
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Over the past few years, Shein has taken over online fast fashion by exporting affordable wear from China to customers around the globe. Its success has attracted a wave of imitators, but a startup called Body404 believes China isn’t just about cheap runway knockoffs. The country is also seeing a budding generation of cosmopolitan designers […]
Topics: 50m, bring, brands, wants, world, valued, body404, wear, zhang, million, indie, return, designers, fashion, chinese, startup, china. -
Victoria Beckham Beauty range launched on Tmall Global
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Victoria Beckham Beauty has launched a flagship store on Alibaba’s Tmall Global platform, marking the brand’s debut in China.
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Viya, China’s top livestreaming influencer, vanished from cyberspace after receiving a $210m fine for tax evasion.
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On December 20, 2021, the State Tax Bureau of China announced that Viya would be fined $ 210 million(¥1.34 billion) for tax evasion. This is the highest fine levied on an individual in the country's history. Later on the same…
Continue reading Viya, China’s top livestreaming influencer, vanished from cyberspace after receiving a $210m fine for tax evasion.
Topics: products, cyberspace, vanished, livestreaming, receiving, china, market, chinas, evasion, sales, viya, ecommerce, tax, influencer, livestream, kols, fine, product, shopping, taobao. -
Watsons China launches WeChat Work and Cloud stores
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Health-and-beauty retailer Watsons has partnered with Tencent’s WeChat Work platform to establish an online presence and launch cloud-based WeChat stores this quarter.
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What Is ePacket Delivery?
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ePacket delivery is one of the most popular shipping methods offered by merchants from China and Hong Kong. For good reason – it’s one of the fastest delivery options for international shipping with the ability to monitor your ePacket tracking numbers through China Post. Products purchased from China were previously […]
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What will a Wish IPO look like? We may know soon
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Wish, the San Francisco-based, 750-person e-commerce app that sells deeply discounted goods that you definitely don’t need but might buy anyway when priced so low — think pool floats, guinea pig harnesses, Apple Watch knockoffs — said yesterday that it has submitted a draft registration to the SEC for an IPO. Because it filed confidentially, […]
Topics: know, look, soon, world, goods, wish, china, certain, merchants, company, countries, techcrunch, ipo, customers. -
Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding
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Back in 2006, Joseph Heller went to China where he spent the next decade learning about the manufacturing business. Based on that experience he eventually built a startup called The Studio. The idea was to help connect people with a small business idea to manufacturers in China in a fully digital way. By 2016 he […]
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Will China’s coronavirus-related trends shape the future for American VCs?
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There may be dark horses waiting to break out when this pandemic is over. Paraphrasing "A Tale of Two Cities," this is the worst time, but also maybe the best time.
Topics: future, china, coronavirusrelated, deals, usbased, american, investment, chinas, slowdown, trends, techcrunch, week, vcs, shape, vc, venture. -
Wish wants to be the Amazon for the rest of us; will retail investors buy it?
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Most people know Wish as a site that sells throwaway doodads from China, but in anticipation of its impending IPO, the 10-year-old San Francisco-based company has begun portraying itself as a kind of Amazon for the rest of us. Judging by what we’ve read and heard from sources in recent months, Wish wants to paint […]
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YC-backed LemonBox raises $2.5M bringing vitamins to Chinese millennials
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Like many overseas Chinese, Derek Weng gets shopping requests from his family and friends whenever he returns to China. Some of the most wanted imported products are maternity items, cosmetics and vitamin supplements. Many in China still uphold the belief that “imported products are better.” The demand gave Weng a business idea. In 2018, he […]
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‘Shein and Temu are clogging the air freight market’
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Shein and Temu send tons of goods daily from China to Europe. In Germany alone, it is estimated to be around 400,000 packages per day, or nearly 150 million per year. This has serious consequences for the air freight market, experts say.Shein and Temu ship most of their products directly…
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‘Starbucks Now’ to join four Alibaba apps
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Starbucks Coffee is introducing its own mobile order and payment system in the Mainland Chinese market as a feature on four Alibaba platforms.
Topics: alibaba, mobile, system, starbucks, china, beverages, online, feature, digital, join, apps, service.