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The Future Of Shopping

July 13, 2020 By Mark Andrews

Alibaba is rapidly expanding its new offline retail food store chain, Freshippo (Hema in Chinese), with stores operating on cutting-edge innovations.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Innovation, Retail Tagged With: Alibaba, Freshippo, Online Shopping

Brave New Booksellers: The Rise of E-Reading

February 20, 2017 By Bennett Voyles

Digitalization has changed book reading, book production and book marketing, and it may ultimately even change the nature of books. Amazon’s Kindle e-reader sold out in 5.5 hours after it was first released in November 2007 and remained out of stock until April 2008. All over the world, a similar shift has been underway—slower in markets where bookstores and book sales are regulated, such as France and Germany; faster in more open markets, such as China, where more than 2 million digital book titles are now available and nearly half of all books sold are sold online. Yet surprisingly, most book buyers still end up with print books.

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, Technology Tagged With: Amazon, Kindle, Online Shopping

Ctrip Goes on a Round the World Trip

July 29, 2015 By Nicole Sy

Leading Chinese online travel company Ctrip now faces the dual challenges of overseas expansion and stronger competitors

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Know China, Tourism Tagged With: Chinese Consumers, Competition, Ctrip, Online Shopping, Outbound Market, Qunar, Slider, Tourism

An All-Click-No-Mortar Approach to China’s Fast Fashion Market

May 7, 2015 By Li Hui

Chinese fast fashion brand Handuyishe is beating well-established rivals by focusing exclusively on e-commerce. Why is that a good strategy?

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Infographics, Know China, Retail Tagged With: Apparel, Branding, Business Models, eCommerce, Entrepreneurship, Online Shopping, Slider, Tmall

Will WeChat Succeed in Mobile Commerce?

August 26, 2014 By Li Hui

WeChat, China’s wildly popular social messaging app, is experimenting with mobile commerce in a bid to become an all-in-one platform. What are the odds of success? Twenty two-year-old Yin Junyu has been selling fashion accessories made of synthetic pearls and designer jewelry replicas for the last two years at a small store in Beijing’s Tongzhou […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Mobile Commerce, Technology, Videos Tagged With: Dianping.com, Facebook, JD.com, Mobile App, Mobile E-Commerce, Mobile Payments, Online Shopping, Slider, Social Commerce, Tencent, WeChat

China Roundup: China Industrial Production Slows and the Alibaba-Alipay Relationship Restructured

August 15, 2014 By Major Tian

This week, China industrial production figures revealed a slower growth from last year; Lenovo and Tencent reported profits while sportswear manufacturer Li-Ning suffered yet another battering; and Alibaba restructured its relationship with Alipay. The Macro Picture  China’s GDP growth bounced back to the target rate of 7.5% in the second quarter, but newly released data […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Chinese Economy, Connections, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Economy, International Trade, Know China, Retail, Technology Tagged With: Alibaba, Chinese Company, Exports, GDP Growth, IPOs, Jack Ma, Lenovo, Li Ning, Loans, Online Shopping, Sina Weibo, Slider, Tencent, WeChat

What You Should Know About the Alibaba IPO

May 28, 2014 By Randy Wang

CKGSB Professor Teng Bingsheng, an expert on the Chinese e-commerce sector, walks us through the issues involved in the Alibaba IPO, such as disclosures, the company’s ownership structure and valuation. In a period that’s been characterized by rapid innovation in China’s high technology sector, Alibaba’s IPO—potentially one of the largest public offerings of all time—has been […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Finance, Stock Exchange, Strategy, Technology, Videos Tagged With: Alibaba, Alibaba.com, Business Strategy, eBay, eCommerce, IPOs, Jack Ma, Online Shopping, Slider, Taobao, Teng Binsheng, Tmall

In China’s Cosmetics Market Beauty is Pocket Deep

May 8, 2014 By Jill Petzinger

In China’s increasingly competitive cosmetics market who will come out ahead and who should re-evaluate?  Stepping into the cosmetics section of any Shanghai-based department store means entering a brightly lit wonderland of shiny displays, impossi­bly beautiful faces plastered on the wall, and a barrage of demonstrations. Groups of young, fashionable girls cluster around the stands, trying […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Connections, Consumers, Infographics, Marketing, Multinationals in China, Strategy Tagged With: Branding, Chinese Market, Consumers, Cosmetics, Garnier, Industry, L'Oreal, MNC Strategy in China, MNCs, Online Shopping, P&G, Revlon, Slider, Taobao

How Amazon and eBay influence the purchase decision making process

March 17, 2014 By Zhang Kaifu

As we buy online, little do we realize how online buying platforms such as e-commerce websites influence our purchase decision making process. Each time you buy something online, you don’t realize that your choice is not yours alone. Throughout the buying process your decision is influenced—both at a conscious and subconscious level—by an online procurement […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Videos Tagged With: Amazon, E-Commerce, eBay, Online Privacy, Online Shopping, Search Environment, Shopping, Slider

Fast Fashion in China: Revved Retail

January 27, 2014 By Xin En Lee and Suzanne Edwards

After years of extraordinary growth, has fast fashion peaked in China? In November, property consultancy CBRE reported that landlords in second-tier city retail properties were courting China’s main fast fashion brands to drive foot traffic, going so far as to waive a flat rent rate in exchange for a percentage of turnover to attract these […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Consumers, Know China, Retail Tagged With: Alibaba, Chinese Fashion Industry, Fast fashion, H&M, Inditex, Online Shopping, Retail, Slider, Taobao, Zara

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