Alibaba Group news

To save you time, we’ve picked out and summarised our most popular news in January. This month, we’ve looked at how retailers and manufacturers are striving to add logistical capacity, expand their omnichannel offering and contribute to a more sustainable world. Mars UK’s investment in two new depots (read here ) Mars UK has teamed up with logistics provider DHL to invest £350m in it...

Unilever has teamed up with Alibaba to create Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered recycling machines that are able to automatically sort plastic packaging. “Waste Free World” The initiative, called “Waste Free World”, is due to accelerate the process of returning high grade plastic back into a closed-loop recycling system, and to contribute to changing consumer behaviour through the incent...

Alibaba’s Taobao Live is helping more industries in China digitise their operations. Live streaming in agricultural and retail sectors Alibaba is increasing Taobao Live’s reach and accessibility. Taobao Live announced that it would offer training to 200,000 farmers in ongoing efforts to increase business in rural areas across China. The livestreaming platform aims to generate CNY15bn (US...

Chinese e-commerce players Alibaba and JD have launched logistics solutions for the medical workforce that combats the coronavirus epidemic in China. Technology at the service of medical staff On the one hand, Alibaba has introduced a global B2B sourcing platform that connects the medical frontline staff to medical goods suppliers. The goods purchased on this platform will be delivered to h...

With people significantly reduce the time spent outdoors, online grocery sales are soaring in China. Retailers saw explosion of online orders With Chinese nationals being advised to stay at home during Chinese New Year holiday amid the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, demand for fresh food and household items has soared. Walmart’s delivery business, JD Daojia, reported a five-fold increase ...

Alibaba is opening up a new digital platform to small and medium sized sellers in the US in a bid to expand its global presence within the B2B e-commerce sector. $23.9 trillion According to Alibaba, the new platform will help connect US businesses to the $23.9 trillion global B2B e-commerce market, which is six times larger than the consumer ecommerce market. In order to promote the platfor...

China-based Alibaba has signed an agreement with the Belgium government to create an ecommerce trade hub. The agreement is part of Alibaba’s Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP), of which Belgium is the first European country to join. Logistics division Cainiao to invest €75m… Alibaba’s logistics division, Cainiao, will initially invest €75m (US$85m) in the project, which will commence in...

In the lead up to the world’s biggest shopping day, Alibaba’s logistics affiliate has opened a facility that uses 700 robots. Introducing the Cainiao Future Park The Cainiao Future Park in Wuxi, near Shanghai, has opened just in time for Singles Day (11 th November), the world’s largest shopping event. The facility uses technology and over 700 robots to control everything from temperature ...

At its annual Global Smart Logistics Summit, Alibaba’s logistics arm, Cainiao unveiled its ‘smart’ system to manage logistics facilities at scale. Introducing the Cainiao Future Park The new solution, the Cainiao Future Park, takes away the traditionally labour-intensive operations, including manual loading, scheduling and monitoring. It replaces them with systems based around Internet of...

Alibaba, along with its logistics affiliate, Cainiao Network, has agreed to invest US$1.38bn in ZTO, a leading express delivery company in China. Nationwide logistics network ZTO is one of China’s largest express delivery businesses, incorporating pickup and last-mile solutions, as well as value-added logistics services. Its delivery network covers over 96% of China’s cities and counties an...