Alibaba plans Global Expansion to India, Southeast Asia, Europe

[mandy]

Alibaba.com Corp., China’s largest e-commerce company, plans to expand to India, Southeast Asia, and even Europe, Porter Erisman, vice-president of international marketing and business development, was quoted as saying in a report by the South China Morning Post.

The Hangzhou-based company plans to expand in the new regions in the next one or two years, and will triple the size of its overseas staff. It currently employs about 4,300 staff, including 40 in Hong Kong and 10 in foreign centers.

Erisman also indicated that the company will target trade magazine publishers as local partners to help in its overseas operations because of their relationships with local small and medium-sized companies...

full article: http://www.chinaknowledge.com/news/news-...px?id=4266

In other Alibaba news:

One of Jack Ma’s companies has 27 million registered users, but the Alibaba.com chief executive officer can think only of the people not using his site.

"We want to show how big the China market is," Ma said Saturday in an interview in Hangzhou, where Alibaba is headquartered. The group’s auction site, Taobao.com, claims 27 million registered users and about 70 percent of China’s consumer auction market. "I want the Taobao team to focus on getting more and more people and more and more transactions," Ma said, adding that "110 million [Chinese Internet] users are not using the site."...

full article: http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=24667

[regic]

A related article:

India’s numerous treasures are evidently too tempting to resist for the Alibaba of the dot-com age. The world’s biggest business-to-business (B2B) portal, which has vanquished heavyweight multinationals and established itself as the e-commerce emperor of China, is looking for new worlds to conquer, perhaps as early as next year. And India, it appears, is firmly in its sights

“India is definitely on our radar,” Alibaba.com’s CEO Jack Ma said in Hong Kong on Thursday...

“And I think that given Alibaba’s business model, and given the fact that India and China are so similar - with lots of groups of manufacturers and suppliers - India will be a successful market.”...

full article: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1054447