Alibaba breaks record with $9b sales in 12 hours on Singles' Day
The big screen shows live data of gross merchandise volume of the 2015 Tmall Global Shopping Festivalon Nov 11, 2015
Alibaba Group saw its gross merchandize volume breaking last year's record within half a dayafter the
24-hour online shopping festival kicked off on Nov 11.
The ecommerce giant announced earlier Wednesday its unaudited figure, saying the grossmerchandize
volume on its Tmall platform reached 57.1 billion yuan ($8.98 billion) at 11:50 amand about 71.61
percent out of the volume generated from mobile channels, such assmartphones and tablets.
Statistics from Alibaba showed that online shoppers from China's developed eastern andsouthern cities
made major contribution to the boost in Nov 11 sales. Guangdong province,Zhejiang province, Jiangsu
province, Shanghai and Beijing were the top-buying regions in Chinabefore noon.
Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba, said in an interview on Wednesday, that there is stillhuge
potential in China's domestic demand and there is no better way to tap this potential in ashopping carnival
like the Nov 11 Tmall shopping festival.
"We want to hold Nov 11 online shopping festival for 100 years. There is still 93 shopping eventto go," he
said.
Ma said the Nov 11 shopping festival is gradually becoming a global event. Statistics fromAlibaba's
Tmall platform showed that this year's 24 hour sales will cover 200 countries andregions and more
than 5,000 overseas brands have participated in Alibaba's shopping festival.
Logistics remains Jack Ma's number one concern for this year's carnival, said the tycoon in aninterview
with the CCTV. "The Double 11 puts China's infrastructure as well as Internettechnology into a big test."
He added that cold weather would encourage more buying as people prepare for the winter, butit would
also make delivery more challenging.
The company saw its gross merchandise volume reach 10 billion yuan ($1.57 billion) within 12minutes
and 28 seconds after the festival started on Nov 11.
Last year, it took 38 minutes and 28 seconds to reach that mark.
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