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阿里巴巴策划线上展会,以援助美国中小企业

阿里巴巴策划线上展会,以援助美国中小企业

Maria Aspan 2020-06-03
阿里巴巴集团目前的核心业务依然是淘宝和天猫这两个中国境内的网上商城,但它也渐渐开始在全球范围内谋划新的业务拓展。

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阿里巴巴集团最近正试图用一揽子援助计划打动美国企业,鼓励它们在阿里巴巴批发网上进行货物交易。

阿里巴巴批发网(Alibaba.com)是阿里巴巴集团旗下的一家子公司,负责国际B2B商务交易业务。本周二,阿里巴巴批发网推出新一轮面向美国中小企业的融资资助及货运服务计划,同时还表示,公司正在为美国众多的制造商和批发商量身定制一场线上贸易展会,旨在帮助这些企业找回那些“消失的订单”,度过疫情下的财政难关。

阿里巴巴批发网的北美及欧洲地区总裁约翰•卡普兰在网络发布会上说:“我们会竭尽所能地助力美国中小企业的繁荣发展。”

提升中小企业在平台上的交易率,一直都是阿里巴巴集团的夙愿。对该公司而言,美国是一个有吸引力但又棘手的市场。

阿里巴巴集团目前的核心业务依然是淘宝和天猫这两个中国境内的网上商城,但它也渐渐开始在全球范围内谋划新的业务拓展。下一步,集团计划将阿里巴巴批发网打造成一个跨国家的B2B批发交易平台,任何企业都能在全球范围内从任何一个国家的生产商或批发商那里购买到自己所需要的货物。

去年7月,阿里巴巴批发网首次上线美国,立刻显现出了惊人的商业潜力。截至2020年3月31日,上一财年中,阿里巴巴集团国际商务批发业务的收入同比增长了17%,达到14亿美元。

尽管和470亿美元的中国零售业务相比,这个数据只不过是小巫见大巫,但是我们依旧可以发现,已经有1,000多万家企业开始从阿里巴巴批发网采购货物。卡普兰表示,去年一年,平台上美国企业的用户数量无论是在买家还是卖家方面都是增长的最快的。

我们一直习惯拿亚马逊和阿里巴巴对比,但这次的情况又略有不同。阿里巴巴最新宣布的这项针对美国中小企业的融资及货运资助计划,很容易让人联想起另外两家科技巨头Paypal和Square的商业策略,这些企业都很善于通过提供后端支持服务来笼络自己的中小企业客户。

“马云创立阿里巴巴的初衷是想让‘做生意’这件事情本身变得更容易。”卡普兰说道,“对于美国乃至全球的中小企业而言,这将会是一个重大的里程碑。”(财富中文网)

编译:陈怡轩

阿里巴巴集团最近正试图用一揽子援助计划打动美国企业,鼓励它们在阿里巴巴批发网上进行货物交易。

阿里巴巴批发网(Alibaba.com)是阿里巴巴集团旗下的一家子公司,负责国际B2B商务交易业务。本周二,阿里巴巴批发网推出新一轮面向美国中小企业的融资资助及货运服务计划,同时还表示,公司正在为美国众多的制造商和批发商量身定制一场线上贸易展会,旨在帮助这些企业找回那些“消失的订单”,度过疫情下的财政难关。

阿里巴巴批发网的北美及欧洲地区总裁约翰•卡普兰在网络发布会上说:“我们会竭尽所能地助力美国中小企业的繁荣发展。”

提升中小企业在平台上的交易率,一直都是阿里巴巴集团的夙愿。对该公司而言,美国是一个有吸引力但又棘手的市场。

阿里巴巴集团目前的核心业务依然是淘宝和天猫这两个中国境内的网上商城,但它也渐渐开始在全球范围内谋划新的业务拓展。下一步,集团计划将阿里巴巴批发网打造成一个跨国家的B2B批发交易平台,任何企业都能在全球范围内从任何一个国家的生产商或批发商那里购买到自己所需要的货物。

去年7月,阿里巴巴批发网首次上线美国,立刻显现出了惊人的商业潜力。截至2020年3月31日,上一财年中,阿里巴巴集团国际商务批发业务的收入同比增长了17%,达到14亿美元。

尽管和470亿美元的中国零售业务相比,这个数据只不过是小巫见大巫,但是我们依旧可以发现,已经有1,000多万家企业开始从阿里巴巴批发网采购货物。卡普兰表示,去年一年,平台上美国企业的用户数量无论是在买家还是卖家方面都是增长的最快的。

我们一直习惯拿亚马逊和阿里巴巴对比,但这次的情况又略有不同。阿里巴巴最新宣布的这项针对美国中小企业的融资及货运资助计划,很容易让人联想起另外两家科技巨头Paypal和Square的商业策略,这些企业都很善于通过提供后端支持服务来笼络自己的中小企业客户。

“马云创立阿里巴巴的初衷是想让‘做生意’这件事情本身变得更容易。”卡普兰说道,“对于美国乃至全球的中小企业而言,这将会是一个重大的里程碑。”(财富中文网)

编译:陈怡轩

China’s Alibaba Group is bulking up its U.S. business—and its enticements for American entrepreneurs to buy and sell goods on its platform.

Alibaba.com, the international business-to-business arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant, on Tuesday unveiled new financing and freight-shipping services for small and medium-size businesses. The company is also programming virtual “trade shows” for manufacturers and wholesalers based in the United States, as part of what executives called an effort to help American small-business customers deal with the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Everything we can do to help a small business thrive is what Alibaba.com is all about,” John Caplan, the company’s president of North America and Europe, told reporters during an online presentation.

Boosting small-business sales has long been Alibaba’s stated goal in the U.S., an attractive but tricky market for the Chinese e-commerce giant.

But while the company’s core businesses remain online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, it has also slowly retrofitted its original business, Alibaba.com, into a platform where non-Chinese companies can buy wholesale goods from global manufacturers and wholesalers, including those based outside China. That platform opened to American suppliers last July, and has seen promising growth; in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, Alibaba reported a 17% year-over-year increase in revenues, to $1.4 billion, from Alibaba.com’s international commerce wholesale business.

That’s still tiny compared with Alibaba’s core Chinese retail business, which racked up nearly $47 billion in revenue last year. But more than 10 million businesses are buying goods via the international wholesale platform, and Caplan says that the U.S. has been Alibaba.com’s fastest growing market in the past year, in terms of both the number of wholesale suppliers and business buyers signing up.

Amazon is often cited as Alibaba’s top American rival. But Alibaba’s new financing and shipping options are reminiscent of services offered by other tech giants, like PayPal and Square, which have also tried to deepen their relationships with small-business customers by providing multiple types of back-end services.

“When Jack Ma started the company with his partners, the mission was to make it easy to do business anywhere,” Caplan said, adding that Alibaba.com’s new services “are a substantial milestone in making that true for more and more global and American small businesses.”

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