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  • Made-in-China.com increases website traffic with cloud

    Made-in-China.com increases website traffic with cloud

    Made-in-China.com, a global trade commerce company, has grown its website traffic over 2000 percent using a managed cloud portfolio.

    The dedicated hosting solution from Backspace, which is part of its managed cloud offering, allows the company to have full control over its servers while also enjoying high levers of speed and performance.

    “As an ecommerce company that connects worldwide buyers with Chinese suppliers, it is critical that we provide a user-friendly and quality experience to our customers around the world,” said Tao Yan, IT Manager, Made-in-China.

    The company started working with Racks[ace in 2006 and has since then grew its website traffic from 1 to 2 million to 25 to 35 million today. Revenues also increased from CNY43 million (USD6.9 million) annually in 2006 to approximately CNY500 million (USD80.5 million) a year today.

    “Because of the company’s support, we’ve been able to focus on growing our business year-over-year, as opposed to investing our time handling IT issues, as we did with our previous provider,” Tao Yan added.

    In the eight years that Made-in-China has worked with Rackspace, the company’s infrastructure has also grown dramatically, from just two servers in 2006 to a total of 23 servers hosted in the US, as well as seven cloud servers hosted in Hong Kong.

    While Made-in-China is based in Nanjing, China, over 70 percent of Made-in-China’s web traffic comes from overseas, meaning it needed a reliable hosting provider that could support its business globally.

    “With more and more China-based companies expanding West, demand has spiked for stable and flexible hosting solutions that can manage traffic around the globe,” said Ajit Melarkode, managing director, Rackspace Asia-Pacific.

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  • Tmall growing out of Taobao’s ‘little brother’ role

    Tmall growing out of Taobao’s ‘little brother’ role

    Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has for the first time unveiled the trade details of its major global business unit Tmall Global, revealing a tenfold increase since it was founded 10 months ago, reports the Shanghai-based China Business News.

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  • Site set to be ‘Alibaba’ for food sector

    Site set to be ‘Alibaba’ for food sector

    Chinese popular chain restaurants, including Shanghai Min, Waipojia and Ajisen China, will upgrade their unified e-commerce platform this year to help cut cost and improve food safety standards.

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  • Amazon’s third-party merchants are a growing piece of the sales pie

    Amazon’s third-party merchants are a growing piece of the sales pie

    To help fuel its growth, Amazon.com is increasingly turning to the millions of businesses that use its site to sell their own goods. That’s a good thing for Amazon, because those third party sales tend to have higher margins, according to some analysts, and it’s an inexpensive way to fill out its online catalog.

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  • Brands now targeting online and stores differently

    Brands now targeting online and stores differently

    In order to steer clear of the war between online and offline retailers, consumer brands may soon ensure that their products on e-commerce platforms such as Flipkart and Amazon are different from those retailing at traditional brick-and-mortar outlets. For example, Taiwan-based BenQ, manufacturer of LCD monitors and projectors, has already diversified its portfolio.

  • Luxury brands’ missed opportunity: YouTube

    Luxury brands’ missed opportunity: YouTube

    Luxury fashion brands sashayed their way to substantially more YouTube views in 2014. But they still have a lot of runway ahead for growth on the social media platform.

    According to a new report by think tank L2, conducted in partnership with YouTube ad buying platform Pixability, fashion brands increased views on the video site by 204 percent as of October, as compared to the prior year’s total. The 90 brands examined also boosted their subscriber base by 87 percent, with Chanel, Dior and Burberry leading the way.

    Despite this improvement, the report noted fashion brands “consistently fail to optimize their YouTube presence,” in part because the majority of their content fails to appear in the top slot of search results for their respective brands.

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  • Online Friday sale reaches USD7.2m in Vietnam

    Online Friday sale reaches USD7.2m in Vietnam

    Traders recorded a sale of VND154 billion (USD7.23 million) in the first ever Online Friday event in Vietnam, announced the Vietnam E-Commerce and Information Technology Agency (VEITA) on Monday.

    VEITA said that more than 1,000 traders who showcased 3,226 products participated in the shopping event held on the first Friday of December (5 December) via two websites, ngaymuasamtructuyen.vn and onlinefriday.vn.

    The VEITA said that hi-tech devices, fashion and consumer products accounted for more than 80 per cent of the total orders.

  • After Delhi-NCR, Snapdeal to offer home services in other metros

    After Delhi-NCR, Snapdeal to offer home services in other metros

    E-commerce giant Amazon.com might be planning to launch local handymen services in the Indian market after having done it in the US a few months ago, but Snapdeal.com has already started providing plumbing, electrical and other household services in some cities.

    The Gurgaon-based company, the second largest online marketplace in the country, is betting big on the growing needs of consumers for such services.

    After a pilot project in Delhi and NCR in October, the company has started offering the services in Bengaluru last month, and will go live with Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune in January. By March next year, it plans to target about 10 more cities, where people can call for a plumber, electrician, hardware professionals, carpenters and home cleaning services online.

  • Wildcraft to add 50-60 stores in India by 2016, eyes overseas markets

    Wildcraft to add 50-60 stores in India by 2016, eyes overseas markets

    Even as global active lifestyle brands are rushing into India, home-grown outdoor gear brand Wildcraft has said it is eyeing opportunities to take its brand to West Asian and South Asian markets.

    “We have designed our products keeping in view the local climatic conditions. West Asian and South Asian markets can well do with our kind of products. We are planning to venture into those countries with the distribution model,” Gaurav Dublish, co-Founder, Wildcraft, toldBusinessLine.

    In India, Wildcraft has 120 retail outlets, largely company-owned and operated. “We plan to add 50-60 stores by 2016,” said Dublish, adding the investment outlay is expected to be about INR18 crore (INR180 million, USD2.8m). Wildcraft stores are typically 500-600 square feet.

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  • Pricey Singapore: Savvy shoppers go online

    Pricey Singapore: Savvy shoppers go online

    A recent Visa study found that 26 percent of Singaporeans shop online at least once a week – the highest in Southeast Asia. And analysts say that with mobile phone apps that allow consumers to hunt for bargains anytime in a city that is ranked most expensive in the world, the potential for growth in the online retail sector cannot be underestimated.

    Lazada, also known as “Asia’s Amazon” for its online offerings of electronics, toys and other general items was founded almost three years ago and is one online retailer that has made headway in Singapore in recent years. Others include fashion website Zalora and online grocer RedMart.

    There is 19 percent year-on-year growth in e-commerce transactions performed by Visa cardholders in the city, Visa Country Manager for Singapore and Brunei Ooi Huey Tyng was quoted in the local media last month as saying.

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  • Zalora offers same-day delivery in 5 ASEAN nations

    Zalora offers same-day delivery in 5 ASEAN nations

    Zalora, Asia’s online fashion destination, on Thursday announced its new same-day delivery service, making it the only regional online fashion retailer to offer such a facility.

    Its regional managing director Michele Ferrario said in a statement that customers can choose the same-day delivery option at checkout on selected items for a nominal fee.

    “With the new service, we are further committing ourselves to customers who lead busy lives. It also comes with other customer-centric services such as free shipping for orders over a certain amount, self-collection and cash on delivery.”

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  • Australia’s slow economy puts brakes on online retail

    Australia’s slow economy puts brakes on online retail

    Online retailing has been belted by Australia’s economic woes, with November’s sales figures recording the slowest monthly and annual growth since the series was first compiled.

    And some bricks-and-mortar retailers are also doing it tough, with shares in outdoor equipment retailer Kathmandu plunging 20 percent after poor Christmas sales forced the company to issue a profit warning.

    According to National Australia Bank, not only are November’s online sales down 0.2 percent on October, they are only 3.9 percent higher year-on-year.

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  • Lotte Mart opens 10th supermarket in Vietnam, to have 60 stores by 2020

    Lotte Mart opens 10th supermarket in Vietnam, to have 60 stores by 2020

    The South Korean retailer Lotte Mart on Thursday opened its 10th supermarket in Vietnam in Tan Binh District of HCM City, contributing to its expansion nationwide.

    Located at 20 Cong Hoa Street, Lotte Mart Tan Binh has investment capital of USD9 million and covers an area of over 8,500square metres.

    The supermarket operator, which came to Vietnam in 2008, plans to have 60 stores nationwide by 2020.