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Global E-Commerce: China’s Jingdong Steps Out

August 26, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan and Iris Mir

Jingdong, China’s second-largest business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce site, recently went global. It debuted its English-language global site in October 2012. The company ships to 35 countries across the world, including places in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Shi Tao, Vice President (Retail), Jingdong, hopes that in 2-3 years, the company will clock yearly revenues […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, C-Suite Interview, Connections, Conversations, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Globalization, Know China, Logistics, Strategy, Videos Tagged With: 360buy.com, JD.com, Jingdong, Shi Tao, Slider

Jingdong leads the e-commerce charge in China

August 23, 2013 By Neelima Mahajan and Iris Mir

Jingdong (JD.com, which was formerly known as 360buy.com) began as a brick and mortar electronics retail company in Beijing’s Zhongguancun market in 1998. But the 2003 SARS epidemic hurt business as people stopped going out for shopping. The ingenious founder Liu Qiangdong smelt an opportunity here and dabbled in an experiment in selling his goods […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Know China, Logistics, Retail, Videos Tagged With: 360buy.com, JD.com, Jingdong, Shi Tao, Slider

Logistics revolution in China: Will delivery companies deliver?

June 24, 2013 By Iris Mir

China’s logistics sector owes its rapid growth to the country’s e-commerce boom, but can it keep pace? Express delivery in China is cheap and fast. Buy something online and most likely you’ll have a kuaidi (Chinese word for courier) at your door step in just a day or two for a small delivery fee of […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Know China, Logistics, Retail, Strategy Tagged With: 360 Buy, 360buy.com, Alibaba, Cainiao, JD.com, Jingdong, Jingdong Mall, Rufengda, Slider, Suning, Taobao, Vancl

China’s E-Commerce Companies Go Global

June 3, 2013 By Iris Mir

Can China’s e-commerce companies like Jingdong Mall and VANCL replicate their success in international markets? Just a few weeks before stepping down, Jack Ma, the founder and former CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, addressed the students of Stanford University. While talking of his humble start in China’s e-commerce industry and his rise to the […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, China, Connections, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Globalization, Know China, Logistics, Retail, Strategy, Supply Chain, Technology Tagged With: 360 Buy, 360buy, 360buy.com, Alibaba, Amazon, Asos, E-Commerce, eBay, eCommerce, Jingdong, Jingdong Mall, Slider, Vancl, Zara

China’s E-commerce Consumers Wise-Up

April 25, 2013 By Engen Tham

Increasingly sophisticated online consumers are pushing China’s cyber retailers to the next level Just as clever marketers have whittled the meaning of Christmas down to the goods that are gifted on the 25th of December, festive days in China are quickly following suit. Singles Day—a celebration of bachelorhood on the 11th of November—seems to have […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Innovation, Know China, Logistics, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: 360buy.com, Alibaba, Alibaba.com, Alipay, E-Commerce, E-Commerce in China, Gome, Slider, Suning, Taobao, Tmall, Vancl, Yihaodian.com

Digital Promised Land: Retailers Look to E-Commerce to Succeed in China

April 15, 2013 By Daniel Garst

Can Western retail brands make it big in China’s e-market? In September 2012, The Home Depot announced that it was closing all seven of its megastores in China. After eight years of consumer research and a $100-million 12-store acquisition, The Home Depot called it quits in China after realizing that China isn’t a sure return […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Globalization, Know China, Mergers and Acquisitions, Retail, Strategy, Supply Chain, Technology, Winning in China Tagged With: 360buy, 360buy.com, Best Buy, E-Commerce, E-Commerce in China, Home Depot, Jingdong, Jingdong Mall, Macy's, Slider, The Home Depot, Tmall, Wal-Mart, Yihaodian, Zara

Invisible Hand Revealed: Games Firms Play

October 10, 2012 By Brian Viard

CKGSB, Brian Viard

  Why the price wars in Chinese e-commerce might end up becoming a race to the bottom for the companies involved. When you were a child, your parents might have warned you to be careful what games you play lest you get hurt. The same advice might be needed for some of China’s biggest retailers […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Digital Economy, eCommerce, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Retail Tagged With: 360buy.com, E-Commerce in China, Game Theory, Gome

E-tail versus retail: Can upstart company 360Buy succesfully compete with the two reigning giants of the appliance market?

November 9, 2009 By CKGSB Knowledge

When the top two Chinese home appliances retailers, Gome and Suning gained a third of the consumer market for the home appliance industry, they probably never considered the possibility of any potential threats from smaller appliance retailers with fewer resources. But over the past seven years, the domination of the appliance market by these two […]

Filed Under: 2009, All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Know China, Logistics, Marketing, Retail, Strategy Tagged With: 360buy, 360buy.com, E-tail, Etail, Gome, Logistics, Retail, Suning, Supplier Management

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