Alibaba vs Amazon: A Battle Of Two E-Commerce Giants

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• Alibaba is often mistakenly thought of as the
  Chinese Amazon. Its easy to see how people
  arrive at this description after all, the two
  companies each dominate their respective primary
  markets.
• Quick look at the numbers for 2016 shows
• Amazon had 310m customers to Alibabas 454m
  most of whom are in China.

Amazon.com Alibaba.com
2015 99,28bn 12,88bn
2016 136bn ?to 27 23bn ?to 56
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The Distributor vs The Marketplace

• Amazon makes the bulk of its revenue on items
  from its own inventory. Amazon buys and resells
  stock its retailer logic, explains Yves
  Martin, director of analysts Wavestone and a
  specialist in mass consumption.
• And though income from third-party sales via its
  marketplace are now nudging 50 of Amazons
  revenues, it retains close control over these via
  Fulfilment by Amazon, which allows other sellers
  using its platform to store stock in its
  warehouses. In the fourth quarter of 2016, FBA
  units represented over 55 of total units sold by
  third parties, the group announced at the start
  of this year.
• As a retailer, Amazon has really made its mark
  with things like its Kindle e-reader, which it
  followed up with a range of tablets and even
  smartphones...Continue reading

• For its part, Alibaba focuses on connecting
  buyers and sellers much like eBay. Each year,
  its platform processes transactions adding up to
  547bn. The site has more than 20 million active
  sellers, and 507 million monthly users on mobile
  alone. 40 million packages are shipped each day
  following transactions that take place via its
  services.
• But its important to remember that Alibaba
  restricts itself to the role of intermediary as
  Yves Martin puts it, its more of a technical
  platform in the first place, like a virtual
  shopping mall. The company doesnt control the
  delivery of products, and this makes for lower
  costs and bigger margins the bottom line being
  a whopping 5.9bn profit on last years 23bn
  turnover...Continue reading

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Subscription vs Commission Advertizing

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