The story appears on

Page A14

September 20, 2011

GET this page in PDF

Free for subscribers

View shopping cart

Related News

Home » Business » Consumer

Taobao Mall projects sales to blossom

TAOBAO Mall, Alibaba Group's business-to-consumer shopping site, forecasts transactions may reach 100 billion yuan (US$15.6 billion) this year and double to 200 billion yuan in 2012.

Taobao Mall yesterday unveiled 38 domestic independent online retailers, including online department store Yihaodian.com and consumer electronics retailer 51buy.com, on the B2C site as it bids to transform into a comprehensive shopping platform.

"Taobao Mall will not become a retailer itself and we welcome all kinds of service providers, brand owners and logistics companies to contribute to the shopping platform," Zhang Yong, president of Taobao Mall, said in Beijing yesterday.

In the second quarter, Taobao Mall took 32.8 percent share of the domestic B2C market, whose transaction volume was worth 54.3 billion yuan, according to research firm Analysys International.

Consumers can access over 70,000 brands and 50,000 retailers on Taobao Mall.

Liu Guanwu, chief analyst at Analysys International's capital market division, said: "Independent B2C sites will see their sales rise as they benefit from the huge user base of Taobao Mall."

Alibaba Group in June split its e-commerce business into three units - consumer-to-consumer site Taobao.com, branded retailer site Taobao Mall and search engine ETao. The split allows the three units to focus on their own business and adapt faster to changing market conditions.




 

Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.

沪公网安备 31010602000204号

Email this to your friend