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Singles Day is world's biggest shopping event

The world's biggest shopping extravaganza is not Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Neither is it Christmas, Boxing Day or anything to do with retail giant Amazon. The shopping festival that surpasses all sales by numbers is China's Singles Day on Alibaba's platforms and it is happening this weekend. The 10th anniversary of Singles Day will occur on...

Retail

In Graphs: Impossible Growth of Singles Day in China

Started as a anti-valentines joke amongst university students, and later on adopted by Alibaba as a sales event to buy themselves a gift to celebrate the beauty of being single, it has since burgeoned into the world’s largest online shopping festival. Rarely do we see financial graphs that points so dramatically upward, and so consistently - but...

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Alibaba revenue jumps ahead of shopping bonanza Singles Day

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Friday posted a 54 percent boost in revenue in the second quarter and saw profits rebound ahead of Singles Day, the largest shopping holiday of the year in China. Alibaba reported a net profit of 20 billion yuan (2.9 billion USD), a 13 percent year-on-year increase, with strong revenue from its core business....

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That's (retail) entertainment - the rise of China's Singles Day

What started as a modest marketing event with just 27 participating merchants, has become one of the world's biggest sales events in just nine years. This is Singles Day of course, invented by Chinese online giant Alibaba and since renamed “Global Shopping Festival“, which broke all records this year for Alibaba with a gross merchandise volume...

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JD.com raises 19.14 billion US dollars during its Singles' Day sale

London - Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com gave Alibaba a run for its money during Singles' Day, otherwise known as 11.11, the online shopping sales day. JD.com reported sales of 127.1 billion yuan, 19.14 billion US dollars for the shopping event, a 50 percent increase compared to last year. However, unlike its rival Alibaba, which reported sales...

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Singles Day breaks all records - again

Happy faces at Chinese online giant Alibaba: the inventor of Singles Day as a commercial event (now officially called “Global Shopping Festival“) announces ever increasing sales on 11th November each year; the sky seems the limit. Last year's record of 120.7 billion yuan (17.8 billion US dollars) was broken by midday on Saturday and increased by...

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11.11 to bring in 24 billion dollars, leaving Black Friday in the dust

London - 11.11, others known as Singles' Day, is set to leave Black Friday, Cyber Monday and even Amazon's Prime Day eating its dust, as becomes the leading online shopping bonanza. Occurring annually on November 11, Alibaba's shopping holiday is estimated to generate a record 158 billion yuan, 24 billion US dollars of sales this year according...

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Forget about Black Friday, Singles' Day is where the money is at

London - As Americans are waking up today to a plate full of stuffing, turkey and corn bread, retailers across the country - and overseas in the UK - will be counting down the minutes to tomorrow: Black Friday. Traditionally seen as the start to the holiday shopping period, as well as the day retailers go from the red into the black, this...

Fashion

'See now, buy now' real winner at Tmall's 8-hour fashion show

Chinese internet giant Alibaba has kicked off its annual Singles Day online shopping festival on November 11 - bigger than Black Friday and Cyper Monday combined - in style and spared neither cost nor effort to demand full attention. Via its online platform Tmall, the internet giant presented an eight-hour-long fashion show in Shanghai on Sunday...

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VR, Fashions Shows & Katy Perry: Alibaba to make this year's 11.11 its biggest yet

London - Chances are you have heard of ‘Black Friday’ - the promotional, discounting frenzy which follows on from the US holiday Thanksgiving. Once seen as one of the biggest shopping days of the year, Alibaba Group - the world’s largest e-commerce company - is set to make its own online shopping festival, known as Singles’ Day, the shopping...

Report

China Alibaba founder says assisting US probe: Xinhua

Alibaba's founder Jack Ma has said the New York-listed Chinese e-commerce giant is "actively assisting" an investigation into its accounting by the US stock market regulator, China's state news agency reported Friday. In an interview with Xinhua Thursday, Ma said that Alibaba has provided requested information to the Securities and Exchange...

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