The campaign called “10 billion yuan of subsidies” – a typical mainland marketing phrase used to tout large online allotments – will be given to an initial batch of 1,000 Chinese brands and merchants, including those who have already opened a store on Alibaba’s domestic retail platform Tmall, according to an AliExpress statement on Monday. … Read more
By March 2023, Alibaba had lost three quarters of its value from the peak in October 2020, as the e-commerce giant, once seen as China’s answer to Amazon.com, faces questions on whether it can recapture its former glory while dealing with China’s economic slowdown, regulatory scrutiny and fierce competition from old and new rivals. The … Read more
While employees have started to receive their bonuses for the past year based on their performance review, those who were rated “M” or higher will be rewarded extra payment of between 5 per cent to 15 per cent of their original bonus, according to Hua Wei, head of human resources at ByteDance, in an internal … Read more
Hangzhou-based Cainiao will launch an “entrepreneurship incentive plan” that will double the bonus pool allocated for the financial year ending March 31, 2025, according to company chief executive Wan Lin in excerpts from an internal letter seen by the South China Morning Post. That means employees will receive their standard year-end bonus in April 2025 … Read more
Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post, has cut its GoGoX stake four times over the past two months, slashing its equity holding to 8.89 per cent as of late December from 12.23 per cent in mid-2023, according to Hong Kong stock exchange records. Following those moves, the biggest shareholder of GoGoX remains billionaire … Read more
