What to expect from Double 11 2021? Pre-sales, new records and top brands

Double 11 2021

The Double Eleven Shopping Festival, also known as Single’s Day refers to the online promotion day on November 11 (11/11). 2021 is the 12th Double Eleven shopping festival in history. On this day, many online merchants conduct large-scale promotional activities on online platforms like Tmall, Jingdong and Taobao. As sales start at midnight, according to data from iiMedia Research, in […]

Checking the health of online clothing rental services in China

online clothing rental services in China

According to a report jointly released by Bain & Co. and the TMall Luxury Division, mainland China accounted for 20% of the world’s luxury industry last year and it is going to become the largest luxury market by 2025. Unlike the in the past, nowadays Chinese consumers’ reluctance to purchase pre-owned luxury clothing is gradually […]

2021 JD 618 DATA REPORT

2021 JD 618 shopping festival e-commerce trends

We teamed up with JD.com to share some Chinese e-commerce trends that arose during 2021’s 618 shopping festival. JD.com recently celebrated its 18th anniversary with its 618 sale, the anniversary marks the continuous growth of the ecommerce platform, with 2021 already indicating a 28% rise in sales from the previous year. Previously being known for […]

How and why brands are using the direct to consumers business model (DTC) in China

Direct to consumers (DTC) is a business model when a manufacturer sells product directly to the end consumer, bypassing all intermediaries. It also includes a wide range of instruments which help to be closer to the consumers. DTC in China makes use of four types of social e-commerce, Pinduoduo – social e-commerce, WeChat – one […]

Dewu app (Poizon): The anti-counterfeiting resale app where you can buy a Ferrari

Dewu second-hand anti-counterfeit e-commerce app in China

Dewu, also known as Poizon, is an online shopping app launched by Shanghai Shizhuang Information Technology Co., Ltd. Based on the traditional e-commerce model, the Chinese e-commerce platform has services for authenticating and inspecting products to combat counterfeits. It also has strict authenticity-checking measures for product listings, trading mechanism and unified delivery. Dewu’s unique selling […]

Double 12 2020: Winners and a dying trend?

Double 12 2020

Behind Double 11 and 618, Double 12 is the third largest shopping festival in China. Taobao started the first Double 12 on December 12, 2012, with the purpose to promote small and medium C2C and O2O Taobao sellers. Like all of China’s online promotion festivals, Double 12 now includes most Chinese e-commerce platforms, such as […]

China Paradigm Transcript #110: How an entrepreneur modified his product to create a successful platform enabling Western brands to optimize e-commerce performance in China

optimize e-commerce performance in China

Find here China Paradigm episode 110. Josh Gardner is an entrepreneur with a background in Academic anthropology, logistics, and e-commerce. Since 2014 he has been running Kung Fu Data in China, which helps international brands to optimize e-commerce performance in China.  Although business is going well now, things didn’t start way and Josh not making any […]

What made Double 11 2020 break records: Sales stats and new trends

Double 11 2020 image from NiPic.com

November 11th, also known as “Guang Gun Jie”, was invented at first to celebrate singles’ day, as opposed to Valentine’s Day. In order to boost sales, Alibaba turned it in to a shopping festival in 2009, in which year it earned a total revenue of 50 million RMB. From then on, each year brought more […]