2014). Alibaba‚ the miracle creator‚ used only 15-year’s development to take the seat in the Wall Street and build an e-commercial empire. The NYSE’s IPO is the signal to tell global investors and competitors that Alibaba is ready to join the global market competition. For Alibaba‚ going global means new frontier‚ however‚ the new frontier could be either a barren cliff or cornucopian grassland. In this essay‚ we will mainly discuss that why Alibaba want to expand global markets‚ and how Alibaba is going
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2.2 Analysis on the Alibaba’s development Development process Process and B2B2C mode Mode analysis of Alibaba 2.2.1 The Development of Alibaba Alibaba aAs a model of global B2B e-commerce model‚ from the launch site for the first time since it was founded at the end of 1998 to till right now‚ it Alibaba has has possessed more than 15 years of’ history. After four years of the establishment of the website‚ which is the end of 2002‚ . Alibaba get got its the first profit for the first time with‚ over
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Individual Research Report 1. Background 2. Business Model 3. Five Forces Analysis 4. The Financial Analysis 5. SWOT Analysis 6. Conclusion 1. Background Alibaba Group(Chinese: 阿里巴巴)has operated in Hangzhou which is a e-commerce and e-auction company and specializing in global trading. It was founded in 1999 by Ma Yun operates total six e-commerce sub-companies. Alibaba Group operate different aspects of trading tomakes it easy for anyone to buy or sell online anywhere
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largest online business-to-business global trading marketplace‚ with 2.5 million and 14 million registered users in its international and Chinese domestic marketplaces respectively (refer to Appendix 1 for key development milestones). In 2004‚ the Alibaba websites boasted an estimated combined transaction volume of more than US$4.5 billion. Alibaba.com also owns and operates Taobao.com‚ a business-toconsumer and consumer-to-consumer marketplace; Alipay‚ an online payment system in China; and Yahoo
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that these brands just did not understand the Chinese consumer. Chinese culture is very different than‚ than American’s in this case. The‚ consumer’s expectations and needs are different too. While eBay didn’t want or think to adapt its strategy‚ Alibaba perfectly adapted to the local culture. By looking at the Tobago website you can tell that‚ it is a Chinese platform. To compete with eBay‚ Jack Ma (Alibaba’s founder) has given a strong local identity to Taobao(website). First‚ every member of
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of Yahoo to Alibaba changed over time since 2005? 2005 was a tough year for Alibaba. Because of the US$100 million investment in China by eBay‚ Alibaba and its subsidiary – Taobao fell into a severe price war against eBay which hindered the profitability of the group and much more capital was needed for operational and technological improvement in order to win the battle. Under this circumstance‚ Alibaba formed a partnership with Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo invested US$1 billion in Alibaba and transferred
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1. How does Alibaba create a competitive advantage? Is this advantage sustainable? a) Alibaba hoped to pool enough stable transaction volume to negotiate bulk discounts from service providers and capture part of that discount for itself. As Ma put it‚ “If one million users are transacting daily‚ Citibank and UPS will come to me. We can offer a discount to customers in exchange for a commission. b) It also helped that Alibaba Group offered a host of services promoting online trade including:
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PART III: COMPREHENSIVE CASES ICMR ISS Cenler for Management Research www.lcmrlndlo.oig Case 5 Alibaba in 2011: Competing in China & Beyond "Alibaba has a first-mover advantage that makes it very hard for competitors to chip away at their lead in the rnarket."i -DICK WEI‚ Analyst‚ J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.‚ 1 in 2007. "For LIS‚ the goal has been to build a company that lasts 102 years and a company that changes China. We ’re only six years old‚ so while other people may call us a success‚ we
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Case write-off Alibaba Group Introduction: Jack Ma‚ who has a foreseen‚ started the Alibaba Company after his visit to U.S. He found that China jump into the online commerce market really soon. The company was focused on B2B business and its initial goal is to help small Chinese manufacturers connect with buyers. Alibaba grew quickly and still growing. It launched several wholly owned subsidiaries‚ such as Taobao‚ Alipay‚ Alisoft. Alibaba group is considered to be a huge success among
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1. Introduction Alibaba Group is the world’s outstanding business-to-business e-commerce service company‚ which provides an efficient online trading platform for buyers and suppliers all over the world. It is China’s largest e-commerce group which was founded by Jack Ma in 1999‚ and has developed into seven affiliated groups‚ namely Alibaba International Business Operations‚ Alibaba Small Business Operations‚ Taobao Marketplace‚ Tmall.com‚ Juhuasuan‚ e-Tao and Alibaba Cloud Computing (News‚ 2012)
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