ABOUT ALIBABA

Alibaba is China’s — and by some measures, the world’s — biggest online commerce company. Its three main sites — Taobao, Tmall and Alibaba.com — have hundreds of millions of users, and host millions of merchants and businesses. Alibaba handles more business than any other e-commerce company.

Alibaba is the most popular destination for online shopping, in the world's fastest growing e-commerce market. Transactions on its online sites totaled $248 billion last year, more than those of eBay and Amazon.com combined.

ABOUT GLOBAL SOURCES

Global Sources is a leading business-to-business media company and a primary facilitator of trade with Greater China. The core business facilitates trade between Asia and the world using English-language media such as online marketplaces (GlobalSources.com), trade shows, magazines, and apps. With more than 1 million international buyers, including 95 of the world's top 100 retailers, use these services to obtain product and company information to help them source more profitably from overseas supply markets. These services also provide suppliers with integrated marketing solutions to build corporate image, generate sales leads and win orders from buyers in more than 240countries and territories. Now in its fifth decade, Global Sources has been publicly listed on the NASDAQ since 2000.

ABOUT SUNING

1990
Suning was established in Nanjing as a distributor of air conditioners;

2005
Suning completed its retail network layout in all the primary markets of China;

2010
Suning expanded into online sales when its e-commerce store platform went live;
Suning’s chain business expanded into the tier-three and tier-four cities of China;

2013
Suning implemented the same pricing strategy for online and offline stores; transformed  to become an open marketplace; operates 1,600+ physical stores in 700+ cities and is  considered to be one of the largest privately-owned retailers, logistics networks and  online store platforms in China.

ABOUT TMALL HK

Tmall.com is an open business-to-consumer (B2C) platform enabling businesses world-wide to reach China’s vast and growing consumer market. Tmall.com has established itself as the destination for quality, brand-name goods catering to increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers and is the most visited B2C online retail website in China.

As an open platform marketplace, Tmall.com provides the infrastructure to host your storefront and unfiltered access to hundreds of millions of shoppers. Operating a Tmall.com storefront is much like operating your own B2C website, offering autonomy from design to operations to fulfilment and logistics.

ABOUT JD.COM

Jingdong (JD.com), formerly known as 360Buy, is one of China's largest B2C online retailers and now listed on NASDAQ. JD.com started with a focus on online direct sales selling electronics products on 360buy.com. As it gained popularity, it started accepting other retailers as an e-commerce marketplace.