One executive told me to watch for a Tmall spin-out soon from the rest of Taobao.
And Tmall and 360Buy are just growing share and spending a ton on marketing and advertising.
One executive told me about the power Ma holds with such great traffic to Taobao and Tmall.
At the moment within the business-to-consumer space, Tmall is the clear leader with 33.5% market share according to Enfodesk.
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Many items sold through Tmall generate a much higher take rate for Taobao.
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With Tmall just recently launched, Taobao could grow massively in the coming years.
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Alibaba, which operates online shopping sites Taobao and Tmall, is by far the biggest competitor in China's growing e-commerce market.
It has expanded in consumer e-commerce with its Taobao and Tmall platforms, which are among the world's busiest online outlets.
Overall, the average take rate for Tmall at the moment is 3.38% (based on publicly listed rates on the site).
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The company operates online platforms Alibaba.com, Taobao and Tmall, which connect small sellers and major companies with consumers and business partners.
Ma is currently on the warpath in customer acquisition for Tmall.
In 2008, Taobao launched a merchant service for consumers called Tmall.
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Through Alibaba.com and Tmall, and with the help of Export Now.
Its Tmall business-to-consumer service, where they can charge up to 15% take-rates for certain products in certain prime locations on the website is also a growing force.
They make money off of advertising, some listing fees, and the big hope is their new Tmall service which could make Taobao the Amazon (AMZN) of China.
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Of the roughly 16 million parcels handled daily in China, over 10 million are generated by clicks on Taobao and TMall, a marketplace for brands and larger vendors.
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Jack Ma may even see this as an opportunity to make his own logistics service for Taobao and Tmall also available (for a fee of course) to smaller competitors, but do they want to partner with him?
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Zopo's now accepting pre-orders for the first 5, 000 C2s and will be shipping before the end of the month, so if you have an account on Tmall and don't mind being a guinea pig then go for it.
One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
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