Alibaba Group

Alibaba is a family of Internet businesses that cover retail and payment platforms, business-to-business online marketplaces, shopping search engine and data-centric cloud services. Its services are designed to make the benefits of the Internet accessible to small businesses and consumers. It operates primarily in China and has three major marketplaces; the English language marketplace alibaba.com serves to bring together importers and exporters. The China marketplace 1688.com is developed for domestic business-to-business trade in China. Alibaba also offers a transaction-based wholesale platform called AliExpress which allows smaller buyers to buy small quantities of goods at wholesale prices.

Publisher URL: www.alibaba.com