Alibaba.com

C1. Alibaba.com 1. Alibaba.com was an early entrant into the B2B portal market in China. In about 100 words, explain how this might have created a lock-in effect, especially given the types of businesses he site attracts. Alibaba.com does translation as well as listings for small to mid-sized businesses who want to do business. In so doing there is a lot of time and effort put into this business venture by these businesses. Once they are established and have spent the money to get there they

C1 ALIBABA.COM 1. Creating other successful portal in the future will be hard given that the lock-in effect makes the task difficult. Alibaba.com as an early entrant into the B2B portal market in China has built a strong advantage over its competitors; anyone who would want to challenge them will face some barriers to enter the market because as a starter, people will show preference for Alibaba.com, because of the experience, some people also develop loyalty or simply because they know the company

figure was more than eBay and Amazon transaction volumes combined. Marketing strategies are so essential for the success of any business. To understand this better, I can briefly discuss the Alibaba’s marketing mix. The Alibaba’s main product is Alibaba.com, their E-commerce portal. It is the leading business-to-business portal in the entire world (Bhasin, 2016). Alibaba focuses on B2B market where it is the leader while most of other E-commerce portals such as Amazon sell business to

The cost for selling is the big cost for this company. The advertisement for Alibaba.com is the important suppliers which are the company’s supply, such as the famous websites, newspapers, and magazines, It is seems to be impossible for the firms to demand higher price special for Alibaba.com. It is because these suppliers are not a union and the price is common based on the market, the supplier bargaining power is stable and limit

company Alibaba.com (NYSE: BABA) went public on the New York Stock Exchange and raised a record-breaking $25 billion through share trading, with more than 100 million shares changing hands in the first 10 minutes. With the present state that the world’s economy is in, many small businesses are struggling and to cut costs are seeking to outsource to overseas suppliers to produce their products. Finding a reliable overseas outsourcer however can prove very difficult. This is where Alibaba.com comes in

Brief Company Background On November 6, 2007, Alibaba.com debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising US$1.5 billion to become the world’s biggest Internet stock offering since Google’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. On the first trading day, frenzied purchases of the stock pushed prices up to by 193%, the fourth largest first day gain in Hong Kong’s stock exchange in three years. The closing price of US$5.09 per share gave Alibaba.com a value of about US$25.6 billion, making it the

the world. Its business includes: Alibaba.com, which is for small firms to find customers and suppliers without going through middlemen, has 57million users, nearly in every country. Another marketplace, Taobao.com, is for individuals buying goods from each other; it has 300million customers and $29 billion-worth of goods. Also, China Yahoo!, One of China's leading Internet portals, was acquired by Alibaba in 2005 as part of its

Alibaba: Competing in China and Beyond Individual Report Intercultural Management Professor: Dr. Jacobo Ramirez Aalto University School of Economics Bachelor´s Degree Program in International Business Mikkeli Campus September 3, 2012 Matti Uusivirta Introduction In this report I will examine the case “Alibaba: Competing in China and Beyond.” Alibaba under the leadership of Jack Ma, its founder has transformed into one of the most successful e-commerce companies in China. In

5.3 Additional services Alibaba.com is collaborating with LendingClub, which US manufactures can approach financial aid when they go for purchasing on Alibaba.com (Merced 2015). Loan lending partnership is also cropped recently with Iwoca and Ezbob, where a credit line is set up in Alibaba.com for UK SMEs to purchases products for Chinese suppliers (Titcomb 2015). Financial loan for the SMEs can also be accomplished by collaborating with local bank. For instance, the introduction of Trade Facilitation

5W1H What is Alibaba? Alibaba.com is a trading platform mainly targeted for B2B businesses. It is. It links manufacturers from different countries such as China, United States, Thailand and others with buyers from all around the world. It enable the businesses to search and get for the products that they need from the largest manufacturing hub in the world-China. (Queena, 2016) The coverage of products is wide in terms of varieties and deep in assortments. Users are able to found beauty care products