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Traded as | : BABA |
Founded | 4 April 1999 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
Headquarters | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner |
Jack Ma (7.8%) SoftBank Group (28%) |
Founder(s) | Jack Ma, Peng Lei |
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Industry | Internet |
Products | E-commerce, Online auction hosting, Online money transfers, Mobile commerce |
Services | Online shopping |
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Employees | 50,092 (2017) |
Subsidiaries | Alibaba.com, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao F.C., Taobao, Tmall, UCWeb, AliExpress, Juhuasuan.com, 1688.com, Alimama.com, Ant Financial, Cainiao, Lazada, Youku Tudou, Alibaba Cloud |
Slogan(s) | To make it easy to do business anywhere |
Website | www |
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Simplified Chinese | 阿里巴巴集团 | ||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 阿里巴巴集團 | ||||||||
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Hanyu Pinyin | Ālǐbābā Jítuán |
IPA | álìpápá tɕǐtʰu̯ǎn |
Coordinates: 30°11′31.12″N 120°11′9.79″E / 30.1919778°N 120.1860528°E
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Chinese: 阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司; pinyin: Ālǐbābā Jítuán Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a Chinese e-commerce conglomerate that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers. In 2012, two of Alibaba's portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales. Suppliers from other countries are supported (with more stringent checks than for Chinese companies), but the company primarily operates in the People's Republic of China (PRC). At closing time on the date of its initial public offering (IPO), 19 September 2014, Alibaba's market value was US$231 billion.