Alibaba Business Anaysis
Luoweihua Xie
University of Bridgeport
Alibaba Business Analysis
Alibaba group Introduction
Alibaba group is a Business to Business e- commerce company which was founded in 1999 by Jack Ma. Ma used to be an English teacher from Hangzhou, China. With more than 40 million users and 5 million virtual storefronts, Alibaba has become one of the most useful online businesses. Alibaba Group’s mission is to connect Chinese manufacturers to other companies all around the world. It operates mainly in two different marketplaces: first, connecting Chinese importers and exporters with the global market; second, offering the platform to domestic suppliers and buyers in China. (Liquori, T., 2009)
Alibaba like other e-commerce companies such as eBay and Amazon does not have specific products, but offers many different items and brands. These products almost include everything range from Chemicals to Transportation. Alibaba has 6 major subsidiary companies, which include Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com)- A Chinese online retail marketplace, T-mall (www.tmall.com)- China's leading online mall for quality, brand-name goods, Alibaba (www.alibaba.com)- A leading global wholesale platform for small businesses, AliExpress (www.aliexpress.com)- Popular international e-marketplace for consumers, Alibaba Cloud Computing (www.aliyun.com) – An advanced data- centric cloud computing service platform, Alipay (www.alipay.com)- A third- party online payment platform. (Alibaba, 2014)
Alibaba has offices in more than 50 cities in China, Korea, Japan, the USA, Europe. Since September 2009, Alibaba.com had gained 45.276 million registered users, which add up to be an increase of 27% since the previous year. Of th...
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Exhibit 1 Ningbo Green Textile Website on Alibaba
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world, the world’s largest online retailer, the largest Web-hosting company in the world, the most serious competitor to Netflix in streaming video, the fourth-most-popular tablet maker, and a sprawling international network of fulfillment centers for merchants around the world. (para 4) This paper explores the technology that has made these achievements possible.
The SWOT analysis: The study of the firm's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats called SWOT analysis, a key step in flushing out known performance issues that are important to the growth of the organization addressed in the corporation strategic plan. The issues identified in the SWOT analysis help leadership to come up with a plan and strategy to achieve the overall mission of the company (Strategic Planning, n, d). Target Corporation is one of the largest public retailing company in the US having more than 1700 stores serving guests nationwide. Target group and its brand position are evaluated in the market using SWOT analysis.--
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World Bank Group - the group that consists of five organizations created in different times and functionally united,organizationally and geographically, the purpose of which is providing financial and technical assistance to developing countries.
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The company should make sure that they invest heavily on products that are unique and that pose greater opportunities to double in terms of sales, including the tablets. In addition, it should make sure that it maximizing the areas such as China that have proven to be beneficial in terms of sales (Luo, 2001). In neutralizing the threats, the company should work on producing unique products, that are highly effective and affordable.