Found some interesting stuff Sunday research:
In terms of scale, Alibaba is way bigger than Amazon. Allow me to give you a few stats to demonstrate the point. In 2015, Alibaba’s Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) was USD $500 billion across its two main e-commerce properties Tmall and Taobao (note that this is the value of goods being transacted by customers on their platform). By 2020, they more than doubled that to USD $1.2 trillion and this is only e-commerce without all of its other revenue streams. Meanwhile, eBay’s GMV for Q1 2021 was $27 billion ($108 billion annualised) and in the 12 months to December 2020 Amazon produced total revenue on all lines of business of USD $386 billion.
More particularly by 2025 analysts expect Alibaba’s GMV to double again to USD $2.5 trillion. “Is this realistic?” I hear you ask.
Well, consider this. Alibaba accounts for close to 25% of all retail spending in China. Alibaba is the go-to place for every Chinese consumer who goes on the internet. Alibaba achieved a historic milestone of one billion annual active consumers globally in the fiscal year ended March 2021 (by comparison the entire population of the US is 328 million, so Alibaba’s active customer base is 3x every man, woman and child in the US).
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