Alibaba – 25 Amazing Stats and Facts

1. What does Alibaba do :
   • Alibaba is a wholesale marketplace where you can buy products in bulk, affordably. Alibaba is the world’s largest retailer and e-commerce company and is on the list of largest Internet companies.
2. Launch year: 1999
3. Company Name: Alibaba Group
4. Headquarters: Hangzhou, China
5. Founder(s) : Jack Ma
6. Three main sites: Taobao, Tmall, and Alibaba.com
7. Total Number of Alibaba employees: 117,600
8. Number of monthly active users: 755 million
9. e-revenue for 2020: US $ 41.7 billion
10. Revenue: US $ 54 billion (In 2K19)
11. Products sold by Alibaba: Agricultural Products, Online Wholesale Marketplace, Retail Marketplace, Pay-for-Performance and others.
12. Number of most transactions handled by Alibaba on Single day: 1.48 billion transactions on 2017
13. Total number of countries uses Alibaba: 240+ countries
14. Top 5 Alibaba Subsidiaries: AliExpress, Taobao, Alipay, Juhuasuan and Tmall
15. Number of sellers Alibaba have: 150,000 sellers
16. Alibaba cloud customers: 1 million plus
17. Number of warehouse robots Alibaba employs: 700 robots
18. Market value of Alibaba: US $ 480.8 billion
19. Brand value of Alibaba in 2020: US $ 152.525
20. Top 5 Competitors or similar products : Amazon, JD.com, Walmart, Shopify, Otto
21. Slack History: Jack Ma and his team of 17 friends and students founded Alibaba.com in his Hangzhou apartment.
22. One Interesting fact about Alibaba : More than 50% of parcels sent in China are Alibaba parcels
23. Awards: Alibaba won the National Technology Invention Award and the National Science and Technology Progress Awards for the company’s two projects in Cloud computing and application of coding camera that was jointly launched with top Chinese universities.
24. Criticism : In the year 2018, Alibaba was criticized in Human Rights Watch report for ‘men only’ job culture

+ One latest news about Alibaba:

Chinese Tech Giant Alibaba’s Servers Found to Be Involved in Data Theft, At-least 72 Servers Sending Data to China