This year's Chinese mid-year shopping festival started in early May and will last until late June. The 2024 edition of the 618 shopping festival, the longest ever, spans over an extended period across various platforms rather than just a day or a week. The duration on different platforms...
SHANGHAI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Livestreamed fashion week, up to 50 percent discount vouchers and more convenient group purchase options were some of the new features of this year's mid-year online shopping festival in Shanghai. The "618" online shopping fest that took place on June 18 w...
HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) has kicked off this year’s “618 Mid-year Shopping Festival” from Taobao and Tmall, empowering brands and merchants to tap into China’s less-developed regions with 1.5 million new products and multiple promotional initiatives. Thi...
“The results of the ‘6.18 Mid-Year Shopping Festival’ are encouraging. It has proven to be a celebration that can match the enthusiasm and scale of the ‘11.11 Global Shopping Festival.’ More than 100 brands achieved a new sales record that surpassed the result from last year’s 11.11,...
During this year’s 6.18 Mid-Year Shopping Festival, Taobao and Tmall leveraged a suite of Alibaba technologies to help brands and merchants increase and deepen engagement with consumers across the country. Merchants from a wide variety of product categories, ranging from apparel and cosmetics, to...
Increased performance at JD.com's shopping festival over last year showcases China's buyer recovery potential, though recovery remains choppy.
BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- China's consumption recovery has gained impetus from the mid-year online shopping spree amid the country's efforts to improve domestic market demands and upgrade consumption. During the "618" festival, a large online shopping event held in the run-up to June 18...
BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Major Chinese online shopping platforms have posted strong sales growth in a mid-year shopping festival that underlines robust consumer spending in the world's second-largest economy. JD.com, the e-commerce giant which created the "618" online shopping event years...
During the 618 festival this year, Pinduoduo received 10.8 billion more orders. There are so many shopping festivals that some are known just by their dates, like 6.18, 11.11, and 12.12. Learn what these numerals mean and the significance of the festivals and how they came about below!
BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com posted strong sales growth in a mid-year shopping festival that ended on Thursday, grossing a record high 269.2 billion yuan (about 38 billion U.S. dollars) in online orders. ...