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Alibaba Sales Surge as Chinese Consumers Defy Economic Gloom

  • Categories Innovation & Technology
  • Date May 9, 2016
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Alibaba, often regarded as a proxy for Chinese consumer spending, is capitalizing on the liquidity of households and expanding into rural areas, helping limit the impact of an economy growing at the slowest pace in 25 years. The company’s platforms, which link buyers and sellers, hit a 3 trillion-yuan milestone of goods sold during the period and the online emporium made more from mobile advertising and expanded overseas.

Net income rose 85 percent to 5.3 billion yuan, just shy of the 5.4 billion-yuan average of estimates. Affiliate Zhejiang Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group, which owns Alipay, incurred a net loss after spending to drive user growth. Adjusted earnings-per-share were 3.02 yuan, trailing analysts’ projections for 3.52 yuan.

The marketing push helped spur a 21 percent jump in active users to 423 million. That in turn underpinned a 41 percent jump in revenue on Alibaba’s Chinese retail e-commerce platforms. Mobile shopping on local retail sites almost tripled and now accounts for 63 percent of sales.

Alibaba expects last month’s $1 billion deal for control of Lazada Group SA, which gives it access to six Southeast Asian markets, will help Chinese merchants expand sales in the region.

Alibaba has also expanded into on-demand services and entertainment, areas that have shown promise but aren’t expected to yield much profit for now. Its cloud computing business almost tripled revenue to more than 1 billion yuan in the quarter, has more than half a million paying customers and is close to breaking even.

The company has also pulled out the stops to get its platforms in front of villagers, setting up free Internet-equipped computers and working with local officials to train potential buyers and sellers. It had a presence in 14,000 villages across the country by the end of March, out of about 600,000. That effort to diversify comes as Alibaba is trying to tap more of the 620 million Chinese who access the Internet from their smartphones and tablets.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-05/alibaba-revenue-beats-estimates-on-better-advertising-sales

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