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Summer was making its picture-perfect debut in New South Wales that day in October 2011, but Mr Greg Foran hardly noticed. Newly hired away from his role as head of Australia’s leading supermarket chain, Woolworth’s Supermarket Division, he was set to work as a senior vice president at Wal-Mart International, the fastest growing division of the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Corporation. However, what exactly he would be doing was still open to discussion. It was not until the sudden and somewhat mysterious departure of Mr Ed Chan, the president of Wal-Mart China, that Foran’s new role suddenly emerged. That Australian summer, far from the approaching winter back in

Nowadays, high-speed development of the technology has changed the daily life and the computer and the Internet have become the mainstream in China markets. The expansion of the Internet rapidly leads the e-commence to develop and change the operation way of Chinese business. At present, there are many people who want to start-up a business on their own. Ma seizes the opportunity to establish a great stage ‘Alibaba’ for

eBay first entered the Chinese market in 2002 by acquiring a 33% stake in its local counterpart, EachNet, followed by a full acquisition a year later in 2003. Critically assess eBay.s choice of market entry strategy for China (use Key Country Matrix), listing both the advantages and disadvantages of its acquisition strategy (use Drivers (YIP) -CAGE Matrix). 30%

Ebay a company that made its name for buyers to bid on items of interest and for users to browse through a search engine for a broad market of items online world wide. Ebay-Inc., was founded by a 28-year-old software developer in September 1995 by Pierre Omidyar 's San Jose living room. On eBay one can conduct worldwide person-to-person trading, or sales which could be in the a forms of a garage sales, flea markets,

Read the case carefully and answer the following questions: 1.Till 2005, eBay EachNet was the leader in the Chinese e-commerce market, controlling more than half of it. But eBay EachNet soon lost its market leadership position to Taobao.com (Taobao). In this context, analyze the reasons that can be attributed to Taobao’s edge over eBay. 2.a. To enable people to trade with each other, Pierre Omidyar created a marketplace in September 1995 which was later called eBay. By mid 1997, eBay received one million page hits per

Its dominance in the Chinese online retailing market was achieved through Taobao(C2C), China’s version of eBay, and Tmall(B2C), another popular shopping destination where major international brands like Nike and Samsung have online Stores.

Alibaba Group is one of the world’s most successful Chinese multinational corporations originally based in China. It is an e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business services through web portals for both international and domestic China trade. Alibaba launched various sites including Alibaba.com which was the first China’s commercial website launched in 1999. The purpose of Alibaba.com site is not just to connect Chinese supplier

The Alibaba group has thrived in the Chinese e-commerce sector from its inception in 1998. They currently account for over 70% of online shopping in China and delivered annual revenues of $636 million in the 12month period ending June 2009 (case p1-2). Alibaba’s successes are due to multiple factors that have allowed them to create corporate advantage, and thus establish market leadership in China (Case p1). The configuration and coordination of Alibaba’s

Founded just before the turn of the millennium in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba Group has to date become the largest online retail website worldwide in the planet, its total transactions surpassing the sum of both Amazon and eBay’s (Erickson, 2013). The report explains its business and operation model and market strategy, before moving to explore the reasons for Alibaba Group’s success such as its established market share in the large market of Mainland China and its efforts to promote the perception of the reliability and security of e-commerce. Comprising of its future plans in logistics improvement, expansion into developing nations, integration with social networks, venture into mobile

Its verticals in China are Taobao, Tmall, and Juhuasuan serving as the marketplace. It technology deployment in China is AutoNavi and Weibo. Alipay, CSN, Haier Gooddaymart, Cainiao Network, and Intime are the facilitator for online transaction. It has invested in Vendio, Auctiva, Quixey, and Tango Me. Lyft and Shoprunner are another investments made by Alibaba.

Alibaba is the largest leading e-commerce companies of B2B online retailer in China and it is giving a trading platform that associates worldwide purchasers to huge number of small medium enterprises to conduct business in their network. The market operate by Alibaba

The company eBay Inc. is an American multinational Internet consumer-to-consumer corporation. Founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar in San Jose, California, it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries including China and India. It’s main enterprise is eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website that allows people and businesses to buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services internationally. Millions of collectibles, décor, appliances, computers, furnishings, equipment, domain names, vehicles, services, intangibles and other miscellaneous items are listed, bought, or sold daily on eBay. Anything can be auctioned on the site as long as it is not illegal and does not violate the eBay’s Prohibited and Restricted Items policy.

The re-expansion of eBay into China seems to be a viable probability and a part of the companies plan for the near future. In 2002, eBay established a presence in china with the acquisition of leading auction site Eachnet to form eBay Eachnet. Up until 2005 eBay Eachnet was the leader of the ecommerce market due to their C2C platform. However, with the emergence of Alibaba owned subsidiary Taobao.com (Taobao), eBay Eachnet soon lost its stronghold on the market. This factor combined with a rigid Chinese ecommerce market drove eBay to withdraw business dealings in the country in 2006.

In May 2014, the Jingdong Group was officially listed in the U.S. Nasdaq Stock Exchange market. It became a large-scale integrated business platform of China which first and successfully listing in the United States. It was also ranked in the world 's top ten internet companies. In July of 2015, Jingdong was selected by its virtue of high-growth Nasdaq 100 and Nasdaq 100 average

It was started in 1999 by 18 members headed by Jack Ma in a small apartment. 52,504 million Yuan revenue earning Alibaba is headquartered at Hangzhou, China. It has around 274 million active buyers.