Alibaba to sell its US shopping subsidiary 11 Main
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Having reportedly failing to gain traction in the market, China's e-commerce titan It said it would retain a minority stake in the combined entity, which would carry 50,000 brands. The stake size or the reasons for the sale were not specified by them.
Reports said Alibaba would also sell to OpenSky three support and logistic subsidiaries for 11 Main - Auctiva, Vendio and SingleFeed.
When 11 Main was launched in June last year Alibaba's chairman of US investments Michael Zeisser said it "brings something incredibly unique to the US market".
Alibaba has a hugely dominant position in Chinese e-commerce, with its Tmall.com platform believed to command more than half the Chinese market for business-to-consumer transactions. Its Taobao platform holds more than 90 per cent of the consumer-to-consumer market.
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But its overseas expansion has remained slow, although it acquired a more than nine per cent stake in US online retailer
"We wish to have 40 per cent business in overseas market, so far our overseas business only accounts for two per cent," its founder and executive chairman
The company, based in the eastern Chinese city of
The IPO was priced at $68 and the shares rocketed to $120 in November. But since then they have been hammered by poor third-quarter results and a row with Chinese authorities who accused Alibaba of allowing imitation goods to be sold on its platform.
Alibaba said last month it would replace its chief executive despite a 45 per cent gain in revenue in the January-March quarter. Profits plunged by nearly half in the period.
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