French luxury house Cartier has become one of the biggest success stories on Tmall Luxury Pavilion since launching on the platform a year ago. Despite Covid-19, Cartier pulled out all the stops to meet Chinese consumers digitally and closed out the year as the top-selling brand on Alibaba Group’s dedicated site for high-end brands. Each channel has
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The Alibaba News Roundup is a weekly digest of events and happenings across the company. This week, learn how museums and other tourist attractions in Europe continue to connect with aspiring travelers in China under Covid-19 travel restrictions.
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Here’s the dirty, not-so-little secret about a record-breaking 11.11: An all-time high in gross merchandise volume means many more packages than a year earlier – and potentially even more waste.
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Tea is the most-popular drink in the world after water, a fact that inspired Walter Whittard to open his first tea shop on London’s Fleet Street in 1886.
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Global brand recovery will be a key focus of this year’s 2020 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, Alibaba said Tuesday. Alibaba publicly kicked off the world’s largest shopping event with a media event in Shanghai, emphasizing it views 11.11, now in its 12th year, as an important growth driver for domestic and international merchants whose business took
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When Alibaba first launched its luxury platform a short three years ago, top-tier brands still viewed e-commerce with caution. How times have changed.
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