DHgate & Alibaba.com

Alibaba.com, the largest Chinese B2B marketplace, launched a proper channel for the feasibility of small U.S retailers. The purpose is to introduce the upcoming brands of Chinese products like electronic stock, home appliances, apparel and others items to the small retailers and businesses in the U.S. that are looking to discriminate. The channel in on Ali Express and currently 30 brands are launched. These brands contain AKseries, DeereMarchi, Dilong, Etonian Kidd, Justmatch, Mbox, rip, and VANCL.

According to the general manager of Alibaba.com in U.S Mr. Annie Xu, “We think that the small retailers of U.S want difference and uniqueness in retailing the products. That’s why we decided to open that channel specially for U.S retailers due to which they can find efficient and quick ways to retailing the products”. Alibaba’s another channel Taobao.com is widely used by Chinese manufacturers. So this channel will support them too to find global opportunities to expand their business not only in U.S but also in all the world.

Annie Xu said that for this channel, Alibaba.com has made a number of strict policies to give 100% satisfaction to the U.S retailers. The manufacturers will have to provide customer service the whole 24 hours. Also, he/she has to ship the required product within 24 hours. In the condition of wrong product shipping, the return shipping has no charges. In addition, a manufacturer will have to put a certain amount of money in the form of deposit with Alibaba due to the cases of any dispute refund to the customer (if demanded).

Alibaba.com which is the largest online B2B marketplace of the world announced its Q4 profit for new members. According to the officials, quarterly net profit which recorded is up 46% from new membership sign ups. It is a record in the history of Alibaba. The organization’s officials said that now we will focus on the customer acquirements and will make strong their services to 100% satisfy their customers by providing quick and cost effective services.

About 40% sales of Alibaba is owned by Yahoo which is closely tied to the exports of China due to its website that is connected uncountable international buyers with Chinese suppliers and manufacturers. After the shock of resigning two top executives of the company due to increase in fraudulent transactions on its website, it is a good news for Alibaba which increases the confidence level of its staff. Recently in the start of this year, the company increased the price of its package of Chinese Gold Supplier which is most popular in the world. Analysts said that this could be the reason of increasing revenue in sign up.

According to Alibaba officials, its paying members increased 7.8% from the previous quarter and now quantity has arrived to 809,362. The profit of the company in October and December increased 46% to 410.4 million yuan which was 281.2 million yuan last year. Because of this, revenue of Alibaba.com has grown 37.6% which is now equivalent to 1.52 billion yuan. So this recent increase in the revenue of Alibaba will also increase the confidence level of suppliers and buyers of the company. Also, the negative impact of the company which was appeared due to the fraud cases will be decreased.

The world’s leading B2B organization of the world Alibaba.com announced that companies of Peru can now expand their businesses with the help of international trade union of Peru named Comexperu. With receiving assistance from Comexperu, the companies can get lower costs and profit increasing margins through directly working with 10 million members above in almost 240 regions around the world at Alibaba international. This program is planned by Alibaba with the collaboration of IDB-MIF and Comexperu.

This deal capacitate member as well as registered companies of Comexperu to connect with Alibaba as free members. At initial level, the registration will contains general information of the company. As a result, an e-mail notification will be sent to each company inviting further participation in the program. Through this platform, small as well as medium businesses of Peru and their products will be introduced to the global marketplace.

Alibaba, Comexperu and the IDB-MIF will try to broaden the level and value of business opportunities for Peru organizations not only on national but also on international basis through Alibaba platform. They will be allowed to access to new markets via e-commerce business. The process is that the Peru companies will join Alibaba.com and then will launch an online promotional campaign to participate in different businesses due to which the visibility of Peruvian goods and services at an international level will increase.

According to the latest news from a Chinese e-commerce industry, the purchasing of Chinese goods online from mobile phones is rapidly increasing. This information is shared by Taobao which is the largest online auction and shopping website of China officially operated by Alibaba.com, in its first annual data sharing event held on 6th January 2011. According to the officials of Taobao, mobile e-commerce got marvelous use in last year and more than 17 million unique users visited Taobao thorough their mobile phones on daily basis.

Taobao officials said that the highest range of one-day mobile e-commerce transaction was U.S.$5.58 million. According to the company, the top selling products on Taobao through mobiles were men’s and women’s apparel, skincare items, electronic products, online game cards, food, snacks and other dry food products, handbags, sports shoes, auto accessories, magazines, books and other printing and publishing items. These top goods categories contained 73% of all the mobile shopping transactions which is the highest so far.

The company also showed that 3-quarters of the mobile shoppers were young (age from 19 to 28). Women’s apparel was the most non digital selling product sold over mobiles and two-thirds were men. This is a good news for Alibaba.com. The company can research and try to introduce a new plan or packages for shopping through mobile phones as it is boosting its sales. It is also a good news that the use of digital technology is increasing in China and people are now getting awareness to buy their needed products online not only from pc but also from mobile phones.

The largest B2B online marketplace of China Alibaba.com participated in a Treasure Hunt event at the world wide famous Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar named “Kapalicarsi” on 23rd November 2010.  In this event, Alibaba briefs about its operations in Turkey. Also, media were present with the officials. The company told to the media about its detailed vision, operations and development in not only the Grand Bazaar but also the whole Turkish online market. Alibaba keep continuing its working in Turkey in the past but now it has re-introduced its plans to boost in the Turkish market.

In the lunch time of that Treasure Hunt, Alibaba’s official Mr. Ken Ardali gave an overview of Alibaba successes in Turkey from start till date. He also put forward the upcoming plans of the company for the year 2011 to the media. The Turkish media also took interest to know more and more about Alibaba and talked to the company’s officials in a friendly manner. All media outlets that attended this event published this news in their publication. Coverage of the meeting was all very supportive which is a clear sign that Alibaba will be successful to grow in the Turkish market more than past. Company’s reputation is increased and media totally focused on the talks of the growth commitment between Alibaba and Turkish market.

To create awareness about the information of the fast growing e-commerce industry, Alibaba.com has launched Alizila. It is a web-based news tutorial that provides the users of Alibaba all the success stories and information about the products and services of Alibaba and also the information of the global b2b and online trade. This information will be provided in the form of many useful ways such as articles, news, blogs, videos, etc.

Alizila.com is specially designed to help those people who use Alibaba services and who want to keep up-to-date themselves about what is going on in the e-commerce industry of the world. The editor of this site is Jim Erickson who is a longtime journalist as well as former senior editor for business and technology for the Asia edition of TIME magazine. He said, “our intent is to provide coverage of developments at Alibaba that otherwise might go uncovered, and to do so with traditional journalistic rigor and skepticism. Our hope is that our target audience, customers, industry analysts and other journalists will come to see us as a credible, useful news source.”

John Spelich who is the vice president of international corporate affairs of Alibaba.com, indicates that Alizila is a good news platform that provides latest information related to Alibaba products, services and b2b industry to the internet users. This site is being operated in beta since it is launched. This site formally debuts on the eve of Alibaba Group’s annual summit for e-commerce entrepreneurs, known as AliFest. In this summit, the speakers were Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group and Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California.

After entering into the the market of India, now, the largest e-commerce company of the world Alibaba.com intends to expand its operations in the growing markets of United States and Japan. In Hangzhou, the CEO of the company Mr. David Wei said, “Outside China, these countries are very critical to Alibaba’s success. We want to expand our operations in these countries because a huge quantity of U.S and Japanese buyers are the core base of sellers in China. Investment in these countries will also be stable our presence in China.”

In August, Alibaba published report about its quarterly profit in two years according to which the firm had the bank balance of $1.15 billion. Now, to grow and expand in the markets of U.S and Japan, Alibaba will use different business methods like acquisitions, partnerships and organic growth. In the past same month, Alibaba has also bought a listing and marketing tools providing U.S based site Auctiva. Not only this but also the company has bought an e-commerce firm Vendio earlier in the year.

Alibaba.com said that it was keen for getting more acquisitions. Due to this, it could add technology or commercial applications that are already proven to the firm’s lineup and had more deals in progress. Alibaba is also preparing a plan to open a customer service center in India that will employ up to 100 workers to serve Alibaba.com’s paying sellers there, now numbering around 5,000.

Alibaba.com and famous actor of Hollywood as well as Governor of California state Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an initiative to provide employment and provide awareness to the emerging entrepreneurship in the state. Due to this program, a platform will be provided to the youth of California to enhance their entrepreneurial skills in the digital economy of the world by supplying an Entrepreneur Startup Kit to students. This education will be given through lecture as well as websites. Also, it will be provided at a very low fee or free of cost from Alibaba platforms. This program will give youngster a successful introduction of online business, e-commerce, selling and purchasing.

According to this program, Alibaba will invest US $3 million for the education of Entrepreneur to the California youth. The details of this program is still under process and will be officially started  throughout 2011 in the collaboration with 15 state-owned colleges as well as universities throughout the state. California is one of the largest buyer market of Alibaba in which importers and exporters take full advantage of products and services at no cost to themselves to cut costs and grow their businesses. In the past few months, Ailibaba created two big acquisitions of some Californian e-commerce companies who are well-established as well as it also increased its employment in the state from 25 to nearly 200.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said, “California has the 8th largest economy in the world as well as the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. It is also a great cultural and economic platform for United States and the world. While launching this program, we hope that we will provide the employment to the people that will enhance the global progress of the state”. Furthermore, CEO of Alibaba David Wei said, “Due to the downturn of the economy, more and more students are willing to join different organizations upon graduation and are thinking to start their own businesses while still in college or university while sourcing their products through Alibaba.com. So we want to make all the process of these students easy and provide them a platform where they use their energies and talent in a right way.”

With the massive growth of B2B in India, now Alibaba.com which is the largest B2B portal in the world has started to spread its services and operations in India. Recently in a press conference in China, the CEO of Alibaba Mr. David Wei gave a detail briefing about his plans of investment in India. Alibaba is planning to specially focus the four countries that are China, United States, Japan and India.

In the press conference, Alibaba gave clear sign of highly investment in India. The CEO said that the opportunities of investment in India are unlimited and we will continue our efforts and struggle to penetrate Indian B2B market. Alibaba has created a brief plan to explore itself in India according to which it will facilitate Indian exporters to sell their products around the globe and then an online payment function will be introduced to make payment process easy for users. Alibaba is also focusing specially jewelry and textile industries as these two industries of India have huge demand in the international export market.

However, the factors that are becoming hurdles in the success of Alibaba are the Infrastructure and penetration of broadband. One more important thing is that Alibaba is not spending its money on the advertisement and marketing. It is spending a massive amount (almost 50%) of its revenue on providing the development of service centers, training to not only its employees but also its users and making the bridge of success stories of Alibaba.com to reach at the top.

The new millennium of 21s century revealed various successful inventions in general business sector, where it also managed to produce marvellous development in order to provide tailor made accessibility for every newbie. The concept of trading via internet accomplished by Alibaba.com tremendously, being one of the pioneer in Business to Business Alibaba.com serving as finest resource by connecting millions of buyers and sellers towards each other. Over these years Alibaba.com also developed tons of lucrative features to provide better trading efficiency between the traders.

Over the years the b2b industry also enriched with number of reliable portals so it means that the buyer of different categories got variety of options to make best deals with the world-wide sellers. Generally, there are millions of products listed on Alibaba.com the smart buyer should target only those products which can give best Return on investment, low cost shipping charges and impressive profit rate. The product category includes products from Apparel, Automobiles, Beauty Care Products, Chemicals, Computer Hardware & Peripherals, Electronics Gadgets and More.

For making an ultimate choice make sure that your targeted location can satisfy the needs of the products  ordered from Alibaba.com then go ahead for the deal, some times due to high competency factor similar kind of product display several results so before finalizing the deal assure that the product price is unique and gives better satisfaction to you. Don’t buy products which are heavy in size because the sizing factor includes high rate of freight charges and induce more risks these days small traders keen to invest money on fast moving items such as Computer items, electronic gadgets, fashion apparels and office products.