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Alibaba reports skateboard trend in China

2022-06-22T14:13:00Z

Chinese technology company Alibaba reports a surge in sales of skateboards. In China, skateboarding is considered an outsider sport or culture, not least because of its U.S. influences. Source: Elon Shi via Alizila Skateboarder Elon Shi in Shanghai However, as Alizila, Alibaba’s news platform, writes, skateboarding’s reputation ...

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Alibaba cracks mark of 1 billion Chinese consumers

2022-05-30T13:18:00Z

For the last fiscal year, Alibaba reported a record 8,317 billion yuan renminbi (€1,160 billion) in global gross merchandise value. However, revenue in the quarter ended March 31, 2022, climbed only 9 percent year-on-year to RMB 204.1 billion (€28.5 billion). This is the slowest growth ever, which the company attributes ...

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AC Milan launches official store on Tmall

2022-05-03T06:10:00Z

AC Milan has announced the launch of an official flagship store on Tmall, the largest online retail platform in China, part of the Alibaba Group. It will be the sixth e-commerce store of the football club in China, a country in which AC Milan boasts more than 146 million fans. ...

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The Olympics are beneficial for Alibaba

2022-02-09T14:06:00Z

Chinese people like to use the days around Chinese New Year to do some shopping. According to the technology company Alibaba, the most popular shopping products this year include items related to the Olympic Games, skiing and ice sports. During the the New Year’s holidays (Jan. 31 ...

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Puma’s gains from Singles’ Day rise by 50%

2020-11-16T18:23:00Z

Puma collected 2.8 million orders worth the equivalent of more than €80 million through this year’s Singles’ Day festival organized by Alibaba, 50 percent more than a year ago, when it already booked an increase of 40 percent. Puma says its China team spent two months preparing the promotion, planning ...

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China dominates e-commerce

2020-11-02T18:17:00Z

Citing figures from Activate Consulting, Diffusion Sport reports that four Chinese e-tailers now account for 42 percent of the world’s e-commerce, more than tripling Amazon’s share. With its 13 percent share, Amazon is not, in fact, the top player in the sector. That distinction goes to Alibaba, with 15 percent. ...

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NPD measures the impact of Covid-19 in Europe and China

2020-07-04T06:29:00Z

The NPD Group estimates that there was a drop of around 24 percent in sales of sports shoes during the first half of 2020 in Germany, France, Italy and Spain – the four European countries where it uses a retail panel of multi-sport specialty stores, combined with sell-out data from ...

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New records for Alibaba’s Singles Day

2019-11-28T00:00:00Z

The gross merchandise value (GMV) generated by Alibaba’s 11th Singles Day hit a record of 268.4 billion yuan renmimbi (€34.7bn-$38.3bn), eclipsing last year’s score by 26 percent, thanks in part to a longer pre-sales period, a larger assortment of discounted products, the extension of the festival to new markets outside ...