China’s high-speed increase of e-commerce industry in the past decade seems to drawing to a close in recent years. According to report released by China e-Business Research Center, Chinese e-commerce volume sales increased by 43.9% YOY from 754.2 billion yuan (around US$123 billion) in H1 2013 to 1.08 trillion yuan in H1 2014. The whole-year sale […]
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Rural China: The Next Battlefield for Domestic E-commerce
China’s urban e-commerce market is nearing saturation after years of explosive growth, a trend leading China’s online retailers to address the untapped markets in rural areas. Nearly 50% of the country’s 1.36 billion population lives in rural areas; however, less than 30% of rural residents are online and only 10% have bought things online, according to […]
U.S. Black Friday Versus Chinese Double-Eleven Day
Black Friday, the kick off to the holiday season for brick-and-mortar retailers, has been envied, and then been borrowed and repainted into the Cyber Monday by U.S. etailers. Black Friday in this year recorded more than US$ 1.04 billion in sales, according to comScore. As for Cyber Monday, sales is expected to hit US$1.5 billion. […]
Suning Shopping RedBaby and Masa Maso for Expansion?
We just heard spreading rumors claiming that Suning is looking to acquire RedBaby and Masa Maso, two vertical B2C services with focus on maternity-children items and men’s apparel respectively. Chinese B2C service Suning ranked No.3 among its peers by market share, according to a latest report, though its share of 2.35% trailing behind Tmall’s 37.38% […]