Alibaba has tied up with PostNord Denmark to help North European e-retailers reach Chinese consumers

Alibaba is collaborating with PostNord Denmark to let Danish and Nordic E-retailers reach Chinese affluent shoppers

Danish logistics company PostNord announced its collaboration with Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited. The postal operator claims this alliance will help “Danish and Nordic e-retailers to reach affluent Chinese consumers.”

The Nordic company added that the agreement would lead to an increase in the volume parcels sent from the European region to China. This deal has offered PostNord an opportunity to set up a Nordic platform on the Hangzhou-based company’s online marketplace, Tmall Global.

PostNord executive Peter Kjaer Jensen commented: “China has about 350 million consumers who shop online, and Alibaba Group is the biggest e-commerce player.” He further added that PostNord will help Nordic and Danish businesses by shipping their orders to China.

On the other hand, Amee Chande, Alibaba’s country manager for UK/Ireland and the Nordic area, said brands from the region will now be able to reach out to over 100 million Chinese buyers who look for high-quality international products. The Nordic logistics platform is suitable for Chinese startups looking for international expansion as well as companies that wish to broaden their ecommerce reach by targeting Chinese customers. For quite some time now, PostNord Denmark has worked with China Post, whose platform ule.com functioned as a gateway to China for various Danish ecommerce retailers.

PostNord Denmark was founded in 2009 through a merger of two postal companies, Danish “Post Denmark” and Swedish “Posten AB.” The Danish state holds 40% shares, while the other 60% is held by the Swedish state, making it the majority shareholder. However, both the states have equal voting rights.

In other news, Fruitnet has reported that the Chinese ecommerce giant is looking ahead to inaugurate a new online shopping festival named “Ali Chinese New Year Shopping Festival.” The company hopes to extend its reach to consumers living in rural areas, in order to heighten sales prior to the Chinese New Year on February 8, 2016. To make this happen, it is offering promotions across all its ecommerce websites.

The online retailer’s news website Alizila also reported that Chinese New Year promotions have already begun, as presales started January 14. People in the country are currently celebrating a 5-day festival that began on January 17.

CEO of Alibaba Group Daniel Zhang stated: “Chinese New Year is the most significant celebration through the year and is a time to maintain traditions. We aim to enable rural customers to access an extensive range of New Year goods from home and abroad, while making agriculture products from rural China more available among urban customers.”

 

Alibaba Ties Up With Chinese Steel Makers, Proclaims To Open Offices In Europe

Alibaba Group Holding and China’s steel makers join together to sell steel over the internet.

Alibaba Group is collaborating with China’s steel manufacturers. Chinese steel makers have taken a new initiative in the highly competitive market by shifting towards the internet and delivering their goods through a webpage backed by the Hangzhou-based enterprise. According to the details filed in the Shanghai stock exchange, the most populated country’s biggest state owned trader of metal, stated it had signed a contract with an organization supported by the online ecommerce giant to jointly develop a network that permits enterprises to carry out trading of steel.

Alibaba news exclaimed that Hangzhou Ali Venture Capital, an investment company in which Alibaba’s owner Jack Ma is holding 80% of the stock, stated that it would jointly develop an online steel trading network with the bigger state owned organization, Minmetals Development.

Hangzhou Ali Venture would pledge £32 million (316.8m Yuan) to the fast development of the network. This measure has taken place at a time when British steel manufacturers are urgently seeking assistance from their regime as they battle for survival when China’s steel is dumped on markets across the world.

The steel sector suffered from a crisis amidst an inflow of the second largest economy’s inexpensive steel imports, and is being pushed towards a breaking point as taxes have been imposed and costs of power are quite high.

Alibaba Breaking news affirmed that the ecommerce giant has tied up with Chinese steel makers at a time when it has announced that it is setting up offices in the European cities, Paris and Munich, the organization stated on Monday. The measure is the most recent in a series of moves that were initiated two years ago when the Asian enterprise began seeking business collaborations to lure more imported goods for sale to Chinese buyers on Tmall and Taobao.

Sales across the border let Alibaba differentiate its online markets from Chinese rivals such as JD, whereas also sating increasing demand in the People’s Republic of China for new goods from across the globe. Alibaba news today revealed that the company’s French and German offices – to be managed by country heads Sébastien Badault and Terry Von Bibra, respectively – would “serve as a ‘gateway to China’ for international brands and businesses of all sizes,” the company stated.

An official at Alibaba Group , Michael Evans stated “In Europe, our top priority is to engage with existing local partners and help European brands, retailers, small businesses, and government partners understand the opportunities China offers and how Alibaba can help them access this market,”

The company has earlier established offices to meet the same objective in Italy and United Kingdom last month. It is also based in the U.S. Its exponential growth is evident despite China’s economic slowdown.

 

Alibaba Opens Offices In Europe To Expand Business

Alibaba establish offices in Germany, France, and Italy, to lure merchants to its network.

Alibaba Group is about to expand itself in the global market. The Hangzhou-based company would establish offices across the European region in an attempt to lure merchants to its network, since it hired Michael Evans as president. The ecommerce giant would be opening so-called “embassies” in Germany, Italy, and France with an objective to position the firm as the “gateway to China” for European vendors.

“In the past, it was really only multinationals that could afford to sell their products internationally. But in the last 10 years, much has changed”, Mr. Evans stated, elaborating upon the plan as enabling “the world to sell to China and to help China sell to the world”. Alibaba News disclosed that Mr. Evans pointed to estimations that the Chinese middle class would grow from 300,000,000 to 500,000,000 in the upcoming decade. “This middle class consumer wants authentic, high-quality international products,” he stated.

Organizations ranging from luxury businesses, such as Burberry, Spanish clothing and accessories store, have established stores on the online trading enterprise’s eBay-like network, Tmall, which aims to lure branded vendors. Alibaba News today reported that nevertheless, the company’s image for failing to battle with counterfeit and bogus goods has played a role in keeping some merchants away. Its chairman, Jack Ma, confessed in a dialogue on Tuesday that the issue of counterfeits “leaves visible wounds on Alibaba.”

“I don’t believe success can be built on dishonesty”, he spoke to Chinese official press agency Xinhua, rejecting some opinions that the company benefitted from fakes, which increase sales and take occasional totals for the company.

Alibaba Breaking News affirmed Chinese giant’s CEO Daniel Zhang statement that it would be promoting the sale of goods from other states to Chinese customers as part of its Single Day sales fiesta on November 11. The said day is identified as singles day for its “double eleven” date, and promoted as the “anti-Valentine’s day” where clients purchase something for themselves rather than for a collaborator.

Singles Day is the People Republic of China’s biggest online purchasing day. In 2014, the company succeeded in setting a record as its trading platforms secured $9,300,000,000 in sales.

In 2015, Alibaba has been adversely affected by the most populated country’s staggering economy, which has decreased sales to their bottommost growth rates in over 3 years last quarter. The company’s decision to establish its offices in the European Union has been taken at a time when its cloud division, AliCloud, has established its first datacenter in the U.S.

It is quite likely that Alibaba’s initiative to open another U.S. datacenter would threaten the interests of its rivals. The scalability of business is an essential feature in growth and expansion of any organization. The same is a priority for Alibaba.