World's leading B2B online marketplace collaborates with India's largest B2B media company to provide Indian SMEs with the best solution for domestic and global trade
MUMBAI, 29 April 2008 - Alibaba.com Limited (SEHK: 1688), the world's leading B2B
e-commerce company, and Infomedia India Limited, India's largest Yellow Pages and special interest publishing company, today announced a multi-year strategic partnership designed to benefit small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in India.
The Alibaba.com and Infomedia partnership will combine the power of traditional print publishing with online media and e-commerce, providing Indian SMEs with a one-stop solution for global and domestic trade. Together they will create a strong online community of Indian business people and provide them with a single cost-effective channel to promote their products and source from quality suppliers in India and around the world. It will also provide SMEs in India with the latest industry news and technical developments in multi-media formats.
Prakash Iyer, Managing Director, Infomedia, said, "As India's largest Yellow Pages company – and now as part of the Network 18 group – Infomedia is delighted to bring Alibaba.com's strength and global reach to Indian businesses. We have a long history of helping SMEs grow their business and this partnership will help Indian companies realize their fullest potential worldwide. The Infomedia-Alibaba.com partnership will bring value to Indian SMEs by giving them a larger, multi-media business platform encompassing domestic and global trade services."
David Wei, Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba.com, said,"With its huge growth potential, India is a very important and strategic market for Alibaba.com and is a top priority for our global expansion plans. While Alibaba.com is the expert in helping small businesses trade internationally, Infomedia brings us a strong understanding of the Indian SME and B2B market. With Infomedia we have a strong local partner who can provide on-the-ground support for our members, including sales, marketing and customer service. We believe this alliance will help us become the dominant online B2B marketplace in India by the end of 2008."
India has more than 8 million SMEs, which account for almost 40 per cent of India's industrial output and employ around 30 million people. It is estimated that 3 million SMEs are engaged in B2B trade and around 1 million are in the export business. Alibaba.com has more than 400,000 members in India, already making it one of the country's largest B2B online marketplaces by member count. Alibaba.com launched a special India Channel in October 2007 to help Indian suppliers find local and global buyers for their products and services. The India Channel has been well received by members, with more than 20,000 Indian companies signing up each month since January 2008.
Founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba.com has built a global community of more than 27 million members from over 200 countries and regions. Thanks to Alibaba.com, small businesses around the world are going global and buyers and sellers of everything from automobile parts to evening dresses are finding their perfect trading partners faster and easier than ever before.
India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world. It had a GDP growth rate of 9.6% for the fiscal year 2006-2007 and is expected to grow by 8.7% this year. China, the world's fastest growing economy, is India's third largest export country. The Alibaba.com and Infomedia tie-up will help bridge two of the world's fastest growing economies and further promote trade between India and China.
source: http://news.alibaba.com/
Foshan Ouyad Electronic Co., Ltd is a manufacturer specialized in developing and producing new energy and power supplies. We focus on producing wind power system and solar power system. In addition to research and development departments for wind powered generator systems, we also have our own factories and assembly lines for producing and assembling wind powered generators. Besides, Ouyad enjoys independent Solar Panels, grid connect and off grid inverters, batteries production lines, etc. Our products are exported to countries and regions all over the world.
At first, we were only a registered member of China Alibaba.com, and meanwhile advertised on many foreign trade websites. But after several months’ trial and comparison, we found that Alibaba offered much more information than others and was really effective. So we kept on cooperating with Alibaba. Several years later, with the development of the company, we decided to explore more opportunities overseas. So we entered Alibaba trust pass and became a Gold Supplier in 2008. We receive some 10 to 15 inquiries every day from buyers worldwide and 80% of them are sincere inquiries. After we joined Alibaba.com, the number of orders from the overseas grew rapidly!
Alibaba does not only provide us valuable information and bring us more business opportunities; it also helps us make great progress in promotion and marketing. By attending the training courses held by Alibaba.com regularly, we learnt a lot from basic topics such as international trade etiquettes to more complicated subjects such as how to differentiate our company to stand out from our competitors. With those helpful advices and experiences, Ouyad will make every endeavor to reduce cost, improve quality of products and upgrade services so as to create a better tomorrow.
Source: http://news.alibaba.com/
Shenzhen Aoxing Audio Visual Equipment Co., Ltd., established in 1987, is a professional manufacturer of audio and visual equipments and related high-tech products. Specializing in supplying AV equipment and related peripheral products, our main product series now include projection screens, whiteboards, easel boards, overhead projectors, AV solutions and so on. As a professional global supplier, Shenzhen Aoxing is a modern enterprise of researching, producing, marketing and servicing as a whole. Focusing on ODM and OEM manufacturing, we are acknowledged as a professional global supplier. You are welcome to Aoxing at any time!
We got to know Alibaba.com since 2002 when Aoxing mainly focused on home market. But after contacting with Alibaba.com, We realized that it is a good international trading platform containing a big quantity of potential customers. So we decided to do foreign trade and presented our products to international market. We established good relations with Alibaba.com since then. It keeps on bringing big surprises to Aoxing's development. After 7-year cooperation with Alibaba.com, our company has developed into a large modernized enterprise of over1000 employees from a small factory with only a dozen men.
The Inquiry Operating System of Alibaba is very good and practical. It can timely provide suppliers with international inquiry information so that suppliers can reply the buyer's requirement and offer service immediately. It really plays a very important role in our transactions.
Among our present five major clients, there are two who established business relationships with us though this platform. They were looking for suppliers on Alibaba.com and sent inquiries to us. Only after 2 month's communication, we became good business partners.
source: http://news.alibaba.com/
Established in 1995, Hong Weilida Plastic Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer of all kinds of cosmetic bags, shopping bags, packaging bags, promotional bags and promotional gifts. We have a factory building covering an area of more than 6000 square meters and 500 employees. The factory enjoys heat sealing line and sewing line at the same time, so there are various materials for selection, such as PVC, EVA, TPU, non-woven, canvas, jute and other fabrics. Except for hundreds of standard items, with our own design department, we can conduct OEM business. Our products sell well in Europe, America, Japan, Korea and other countries and regions.
We should say "THANK YOU" to Alibaba, who helped us realize such a great achievement. At the beginning, we mainly targeted on domestic market. Ever since being a member of Alibaba, we started our foreign trade business. Through Alibaba, we knew many high-quality customers, one of whom keeps on purchasing the cosmetic bags every year, and the annual purchasing amount is usually more than $200,000.
Nowadays, more and more buyers know Alibaba, they will visit Alibaba website when they want to purchase the goods from China. There are lots of potential customers on Alibaba.com, so we believe our future is bright!!
source: http://news.alibaba.com/
GUANGXI YULIN JIABAO MANUFACTURE OF COMMODITY CO., LTD, founded in 1997, is a professional manufacturer that specializes in household articles and kitchen units made from wire, rattan , wood and bamboo. Its standardized production workshops cover a land area of 70000 square meters. Since the establishment of the company, JIABAO has always attached great importance to the development of overseas market. The Overseas Sale Division is composed by 10 energetic young elites.
"To be of best quality, best service and best credit" has always been JIABAO's principle. With the efforts of our employees, our products enjoy good sales in EU, America, Africa, the Middle East countries, etc. During the past few years, our main outlets for export are introduction and promotion of our old customers and friends, company website presentations and fairs both at home and abroad. There are two points in common for buyers who are collected through traditional ways: 1st, they’ve already had settled suppliers; 2nd, they normally pay more attention to the current styles which are hot in their market instead of other new designs.
At this time when there has been an increasingly fierce competition in both domestic and foreign markets, to realize a better development of JIABAO, there is a need to continue to innovate and be creative. However, innovation under the traditional methods is far from enough. Therefore, we decided to have a try of network trade. Choosing a good network platform which has exciting influence is crucial for network trades. JIABAO started to choose B2B website in 2007 and finally, we selected Alibaba.com and became a "Golden supplier" in 2008. The reason why we chose Alibaba.com is that there are many professional traders who come from all over the world getting together in Alibaba.com. What's more, it has good reputation worldwide.
At the beginning, we didn't know how to make our products attractive and how to search big buyers on the B2B website. The service staffs of Alibaba Company come round in person to our company to teach us how to search big buyers and maintain our website. When we got in difficulties in our operation, we can call the Service Line “400-826-1688” for Golden Supplier for help, and could get the good solution from them at the very first time. We also have learned many precious experiences and methods through website traders' forum periodically held in Nanning and some professional training courses provided by Alibaba Company.
With our careful maintenance and constantly update, we gradually got some enquiries from many professional buyers overseas, and got to know many friends from every country by trade manager. One of them is a big American buyer who will visit our booth during The Spring Fair this year to conduct a face to face negotiation with us. Meanwhile, we grasped the market’s trend through this B2B website so that we can keep on designing and creating products to win the end-users' favor.
Source: http://news.alibaba.com/
Henan Boom Gelatin Co., Ltd. was founded in Oct, 2005. We started cooperation with Alibaba.com for products promotion and company propaganda since the establishment of the company.
We make a full use of this platform and pay a lot attention to it such as uploading the pictures of products timely and update the window array regularly. We receive many inquiries every week and always pay close attention to those valuable inquiries. On the basis of our main products such as gelatin and agar-agar, we also set foot in food additive and products of chemical industry in 2007. With the sustained business conception of "credit is the basis, quality is the first, and delivery just-in-time", we gained the high trust and good reputation from customers, which also laid a solid foundation for our strategy of diversification production and marketing.
We grew up with Alibaba in 2008. In 2008, we developed some new products, realized annual sales of $4 million, and made new progress in product and market diversification.
Source: http://news.alibaba.com/
Popular women's apparel designer Linda Hipp and her company, LIJA, celebrate the arrival of the brand's Spring 2009 collections with a Customer Appreciation event with offer at LIJAStyle.com through May 17.
Coinciding with the launch of LIJA's online showroom, the promotion encourages customers to explore the website and the brand's newly-introduced range of tennis and active apparel. With a focus on innovative style, femininity and superior quality, these collections feature a variety of luxurious, lightweight performance fabrics designed to enhance functionality, comfort and movement.
"As LIJA continues to expand, we wanted to thank our customers for their support," says Hipp. "Many of them have been with us since we introduced our golf collection more than a decade ago, and we want them to be some of the first to experience the pieces from our newest categories."
For Spring 2009, in conjunction with the launch of its new active and tennis collections, LIJA has debuted more than 200 pieces of golf and sportswear. Inspired by the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age and American Spirit of the 1950s, these trend-setting styles span a diverse color palette ranging from Daiquiri and Margarita to Black and Silver.
LIJA is a staple in finer golf and non-golf retailers across North America, including world-renowned resorts and clubs like Riviera, Kiawah Island, The Greenbrier and Whistling Straits. The company's clothing is worn by scores of women golf professionals worldwide, including LPGA Tour star Leta Lindley, the 2008 LIJA Tour Style Leaders Grand Prize winner.
Source: http://www.fibre2fashion.com/
Hong Kong, May 9, 2007 - Alibaba.com, the leading B2B e-commerce company in China and one of the largest B2B marketplaces on the Internet, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Kenfair International (Holdings) Limited, a leading exhibitions organizer in Asia. Alibaba.com will be the official trade media partner for two Kenfair trade shows in October, promoting the events to its online community of more than 20 million small-and medium-sized enterprise customers in over 200 countries and territories.
Alibaba.com launched its Trade Show Partnership program in February 2006 to help trade show organizers increase attendance and extend the reach of their events by leveraging the resources of one of the world's largest online communities of importers and exporters. Alibaba.com's first successful cooperation with Kenfair was in October 2005, when it helped to attract significantly more qualified visitors to the 2005 Mega Show.
Herbert Ip, Chairman of Kenfair International (Holdings) Limited, said, "We are delighted to have Alibaba.com as the official trade media partner for Kenfair's trade shows. Our partnership will continue to unite the online and offline trade community and generate much wider exposure for our shows through Alibaba.com's huge network of members."
David Wei, President of Alibaba.com, said, "Kenfair and Alibaba.com are bringing the physical trade show and virtual marketplace together to give global buyers and sellers more opportunities to meet and trade. We will introduce our international buyers to two great shows in Asia and provide our suppliers with a new offline channel to market their products. We will continue to work with leading trade show operators around the world to create value for our customers."
Mega Show Part 1 is the largest Hong Kong trade show for gifts, housewares and toys and attracts 3,500 exhibitors and an average of 60,000 visitors every year. It will be held this year from October 21 to 24. Mega Macao will be the first large scale international trade fair in Macao for gifts, premiums, home textiles and consumer electronics and will run from October 18 to 20.
Source: http://news.alibaba.com/
Shenzhen Yada Cosmetics Co., Ltd. (Sino-American Joint Venture Enterprise), founded in 1992, is located in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Based on OEM business, we specialize in researching and producing plastic color cosmetics, ranging from packaging to finished products. For the past 17 years, adhering to the principle of "Quality is the lifeline of the Enterprise", we have been keeping on improving the company's management and products development ability so as to adapt quickly to new developments.
During the initial stage of founding, we mainly sold our own brand—YADA, and supplemented by conducting foreign trade. Since 2000, we began to follow the way of OEM and OBM business. Due to the lake of knowledge on international market and necessary certificates required by foreign countries and absence of qualified foreign trade staff, we met a lot of unexpected difficulties. Luckily, we overcame all of the difficulties and the company developed faster and faster. Today, our products are directly exported to many countries and regions such as Europe, America, Africa, etc.
However, while we well maintained the relationships with our long-term clients, we came across a bottle-neck in developing new clients. At that moment, the E-business came into our mind. But there were so many B2B platforms that it puzzled us on how to choose the most effective one on the premise of limited budget. Then, we got to know Alibaba.com, and selected it as our platform without hesitation. We chose Alibaba, not because it offered a favorable price. We could not help impressing by its perfect training system and good image at home and abroad. We do trust Alibaba.
Our cooperation with Alibaba has already entered the third year now. Although we felt a little disappointed as we didn't gain what we expected last two years, their sincerity keeps us cooperating with them this year. With their patient and sincere support, we believe that our company will have a promised prospect in the New Year.
Source: http://news.alibaba.com/
MyTradeBook.com on Thursday announced the launch of a free web based B2B marketplace tool that allows businesses to build networks, engage in interest groups, advertise products and services to buy and sell, recruit human resources and partner with organizations related to their business ecosystem.
The tool will be initially launched in India and United Kingdom followed by other English speaking countries and major world economies.
Given the current economic scenario, this tool which is targeted at the SME (small and medium enterprises) segment offers Indian businesses a free online platform that helps create new markets and reach out to potential global customers.
Announcing the launch of the MyTradeBook.com, Mr. Richard Tunstall, Managing Director, MyTradeBook.com said, “There are many small & medium businesses that have products & services with global appeal, but are constrained with limited marketing budgets, which become even more pronounced in the current economic scenario. MyTradeBook.com is designed to cut through the clutter of the existing B2B marketplaces by offering users effective ways to reach out, collaborate and showcase their products and services in a much more targeted fashion. What’s more important is that they can do it for free.”
Amalgamating the concepts of business networking and B2B marketplace, this unique tool allows users to join as well as create Interest Groups. This facilitates collaboration and discussion between users on their areas of interest opening up avenues for generation of new ideas and business leads.
Users can also advertise their products and services for free in the Trade Pages of the tool. These posted adverts, as well as being viewed by all site visitors, can also be linked to and displayed in various Interest Groups based on product categories, offering users an opportunity to target their adverts to the most relevant people.
Apart from offering users, the ability to search Trade Page adverts, crucially MyTradeBook.com, also allows users to share Trade Page posts with other social networking sites and via email, creating viral marketing opportunities.
Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/
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