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Chinese giant Alibaba is courting Italian luxury houses

Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group Holding's Lazada is eyeing Italian luxury houses such as Giorgio Armani and D&G, in a bid grow e-commerce sales to 100 billion dollars by 2030. Having premium European fashion and design brands in its portfolio would stave off other Asian competitors, reported Bloomberg. The company's executives recently...

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Alibaba reportedly injects 634 million dollar capital into Lazada

Chinese marketplace giant Alibaba Group is believed to have injected a further 634 million dollars into its Southeast Asia e-commerce subsidiary, Lazada. The reported amount brings Alibaba’s total investment into the firm to over 1.8 billion dollars this year, according to Tech in Asia. It comes as Alibaba continues to readjust strategies to...

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Lazada Group announces leadership succession plan

Southeast Asia’s leading e-commerce company, Alibaba-owned Lazada Group, has announced that its executive president Pierre Poignant will succeed Lucy Peng as CEO of the Lazada Group with immediate effect as part of the group’s succession planning. Peng will remain executive chairwoman of the Lazada Group. “Pierre is a well-respected Lazada...

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Alibaba doubles investment in SE Asia e-commerce firm

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Monday it will appoint one of its founders as head of Lazada and inject another $2 billion into Southeast Asia's leading online shopping firm, boosting its regional expansion. Alibaba, which already owns 83 percent of Lazada with two investments totalling $2 billion as of June last year, has been trying to...

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Alibaba financial affiliate valued at 60 US billion dollars

China's top internet finance company, e-commerce giant Alibaba's affiliate Ant Financial, could start the process of going public this year, reports said Monday, with the firm's latest fundraising valuing it at 60 billion US dollars. Ant Financial Services Group, which owns and operates the Paypal-like service Alipay, has met the Chinese listing...