Home
News
In Focus
Business
Metro
Nation
World
Sports
Feature
Opinion
View more »Opinion Columns
Wan LixinOpinion deputy editor of Shanghai Daily
Restaurants get off to a quick start thanks to game-changing policies
High service charges on event ticket refunds call for further regulation
Sunday
- Subscribe
Related News
Alibaba suffers 16% drop in Q1 net
By Ding Yining |
May 8, 2009, Friday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
ALIBABA.COM suffered a 16-percent tumble in net profit in the first quarter of this year from a year earlier as the Chinese e-commerce company boosted spending and investments, which offset a revenue rise.
The net income for the first three months totaled 253.4 million yuan (US$37.1 million), a 16-percent drop from 301.7 million yuan in the year-earlier period, the company said in a statement to Hong Kong's stock exchange late Wednesday. Its revenue hit 807 million yuan, a 19-percent jump from 680 million yuan in the previous year.
By March 31, a total of 40.3 million users had registered on the company's online market, representing a 36-percent rise from a year earlier, or 6-percent climb from the fourth quarter of 2008.
The firm also saw an increase in paying members to 481,575 in the last quarter, a surge of 47 percent year on year.
"We are seeing clear trends in growing penetration of e-commerce despite weak economic conditions and we'll be committed to executing strategies to drive customer penetration and retention," said David Wei, CEO of Alibaba.com.
The revenue from the portal's export-oriented International Marketplace division, mainly made up of sales to Chinese exporters posting products on its Website, rose 8.9 percent to 505.6 million yuan in the first quarter and 3 percent quarter on quarter. But this slowed from the full-year growth rate of 23 percent in 2008 due to the global recession.
The revenue from its China marketplace hit 301 million yuan, a 39-percent year-on-year growth but a 5-percent quarter-on-quarter drop.
The net income for the first three months totaled 253.4 million yuan (US$37.1 million), a 16-percent drop from 301.7 million yuan in the year-earlier period, the company said in a statement to Hong Kong's stock exchange late Wednesday. Its revenue hit 807 million yuan, a 19-percent jump from 680 million yuan in the previous year.
By March 31, a total of 40.3 million users had registered on the company's online market, representing a 36-percent rise from a year earlier, or 6-percent climb from the fourth quarter of 2008.
The firm also saw an increase in paying members to 481,575 in the last quarter, a surge of 47 percent year on year.
"We are seeing clear trends in growing penetration of e-commerce despite weak economic conditions and we'll be committed to executing strategies to drive customer penetration and retention," said David Wei, CEO of Alibaba.com.
The revenue from the portal's export-oriented International Marketplace division, mainly made up of sales to Chinese exporters posting products on its Website, rose 8.9 percent to 505.6 million yuan in the first quarter and 3 percent quarter on quarter. But this slowed from the full-year growth rate of 23 percent in 2008 due to the global recession.
The revenue from its China marketplace hit 301 million yuan, a 39-percent year-on-year growth but a 5-percent quarter-on-quarter drop.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
