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Alibaba First Steps in Taiwan in 2010
Alibaba Group plans to release its business-to-consumer (B2C) online mall service Taobao Mall as well as its business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce site Alibaba.com (1688.HK) paid services TrustPass and Gold Supplier Starter Pack in Taiwan next year, Sina reported quoting Alibaba.com CEO David Wei on November 3. Wei added that if it can reach 10,000 users in Taiwan, it will introduce its Alibaba Finance, Alibaba Education, and SME IT Business Department services to the island. The move marks the first time Taobao Mall and TrustPass have been opened to an overseas market, the report said.
Wei said the company has 2,500 corporate members in Taiwan after establishing an office on the island in last July. Currently Alibaba.com employs a workforce of 56 in Taiwan, the report said.
According to Wei, Taobao Mall in Taiwan will mainly emphasize B2B e-commerce, while the TrustPass service will help Taiwanese users to enter the mainland wholesale market, predominantly to make manufacturing industry purchases, and the Gold Supplier Starter Pack will help expand overseas orders for exports-oriented companies.
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