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Retail Asia06/07/2018

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Alibaba’s digital marketing arm Alimama has unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered copywriting tool. Tapping the huge pool of content on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites Tmall and Taobao, the AI copywriter uses deep learning and natural language-processing technologies learn from millions of top-quality existing samples to generate copy for products. Brands and advertisers can insert a link to […]

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Retail Asia26/06/2018

Alibaba Group’s rural initiative – Rural Taobao – plans to expand its coverage to 1000 counties and 150,000 villages across China during the next three years. Launched in October 2014, Rural Taobao is one of Alibaba’s three main strategic projects in addition to globalisation and cloud computing. It aims to buttress trade between China’s remote regions […]

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Retail Asia07/06/2018

China’s millennial generation is the driving force behind the shift from “Made in China” to “Created in China.” To celebrate this new generation of makers, and the consumers who are increasingly looking for unique, niche brands and products to express themselves, Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) will host its Taobao Maker Festival from September 13-16, 2018 at the iconic […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2018

Alibaba’s C2C e-commerce site Taobao aims at seniors and their families on a newly launched shopping channel on its platform. Taobao for retirees aims to be easier for seniors to register an account and browse products, delivering an improved user experience that includes personalised recommendations and after-sales service, says Taobao head of development Ding Jian. […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2018

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Continuing momentum in Alibaba Group’s New Retail business helped drive a 56 per cent year-on-year growth in sales for the quarter to December 31. The performance of the New Retail category – which combines its online (non-marketplace) and fast-growing offline retail businesses, including investments in Sun Art Retail and other established businesses – was a […]

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Retail Asia16/01/2018

Taobao has been added to the USTR counterfeit blacklist for the second successive year for selling suspected fake items on its shopping platform. However, the Chinese e-commerce giant says the listing does not reflect its IP-protection efforts. Owned by Alibaba Group, it is one of 25 online markets along with 18 physical markets to make […]

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Retail Asia10/01/2018

Macy’s, the iconic US bricks-and-mortar retailer, has taken a digital-first approach in its effort to crack the complicated China market by using innovative virtual reality and influencer strategies. “When we came into China, we started digital first, and we started building big digital homes,” Dustin Jones, Executive Vice-President and Managing Director of Macy’s China, told […]

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Retail Asia23/11/2017

In 1999, when Alibaba was founded, the first association people would make was “Ali Baba” from the Arabian literature masterpiece “One Thousand and One Nights”. Jack Ma said he chose it for this reason, it was a name able to resonate in people’s mind all over the world. In less than 3 years, the name […]

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Retail Asia26/04/2017

A Lazada loyalty program for Singapore shoppers looks set to be expanded to other Asian markets. Alibaba-owned Lazada has teamed up with Netflix and Uber Technologies – the first time the companies have jointly created an online rewards program, according to Lazada CEO Maximilian Bittner. The program is aimed at consumers who primarily go online […]

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Retail Asia28/03/2017

China’s Alibaba Group has teamed up with online retailer Lazada to bring popular shopping site Taobao to Singapore, in a move to deepen the reach of the Chinese e-commerce giant into Asia ahead of US rival Amazon. Last year, Alibaba made headlines with a US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) deal for control of Lazada, giving the […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2017

Alibaba’s bringing its teeming Taobao internet marketplace to Singapore. Alibaba Group Holding and Lazada Group are teaming up to sell select Taobao products direct to shoppers in the affluent island-state, striking their first partnership since the Chinese company took control of Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce operator a year ago. Lazada is launching a dedicated website that […]

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Retail Asia17/03/2017

Alibaba plans to form independent research and development teams to build up core technologies that support its vision of serving 2 billion people in the future. The giant e-commerce and technology company unveiled its grand plan at its inaugural tech summit, “New Technology, New Future”, at its Hangzhou headquarters in China. About 5000 engineers attended, […]

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Retail Asia05/03/2017

Thanks to the rapid development of China’s e-commerce industry, over 1,000 “Taobao villages” across the country are turning poor communities into huge online retail hubs, creating more than 840,000 job opportunities. These villages are so-named because at least 10 per cent of the population living in these rural communities makes its living by selling products […]

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Retail Asia05/03/2017

In just over a year, clothing retailer Hang Ten has closed more than a third of its stores. The 12 outlets, in suburban malls, had been bleeding money. Consumers were spending less but Hang Ten’s landlords were still charging high rents, said its general manager Andrew Kee. “We started to close non-profitable suburban shops since […]

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Retail Asia31/01/2017

Taobao.com, founded by Alibaba in 2003, has become the single most popular e-retailer in China with 423 million active registered shoppers by the end of March 2016. The figure has also far surpassed American e-commerce giants Amazon and eBay. Taobao has not only transformed China’s retail marketplace by providing products and online convenience to rural […]

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Retail Asia30/01/2017

Pushing advertisement online and offline has been the typical strategy of China’s e-commerce giants to bring in customers, explaining why e-commerce sector is one of the toughest battlegrounds for freshly born startups since they have little money to spend on advertising. However, the trend is changing. As startups like Bolome, combining live streaming into cross-border […]

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Retail Asia18/01/2017

Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba has teamed up with some of the world’s most-counterfeited brands to fight against copycats. Collaborating with such global brands as Louis Vuitton, Samsung and Swarovski, Alibaba will provide its members with big data and other support to help them block, identify and even take down listings from its marketplaces such as […]

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Retail Asia25/11/2016

Like many college students in China, Song Yang buys most of the things she needs for daily life by shopping on the internet. But while her peers have to satisfy the urge to splurge with the occasional new smartphone or pair of branded sneakers, Song doesn’t worry much about living on a student’s budget. A […]

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Retail Asia08/11/2016

While China’s economy goes through a sluggish patch, internet shopping mall giant Alibaba Group has announced a sparkling quarter in which profit beat expectations, its fledgling cloud computing business more than doubled sales, and its entertainment income quadrupled. “Our results reflect our increasing ability to monetise our 450 million mobile users through new and innovative […]

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Retail Asia01/11/2016

Alibaba Group Holding, the world’s largest e-commerce company, is expected to report another strong quarter of sales in the three months to September 30, as its preparations intensify for the Singles’ Day online shopping festival next week. Analysts estimated New York-listed Alibaba’s total second-quarter revenue for its fiscal year that ends March would increase about […]

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