Alibaba is a Chinese e-commerce company founded in 1999 by Jack Ma. It operates online marketplaces like Taobao and Tmall, handling more transactions than Amazon and eBay combined. With hundreds of millions of users, Alibaba dominates China's online shopping market. It has expanded into cloud computing, digital payments, and new strategic investments as it seeks to maintain growth and compete in an increasingly mobile environment.

1. DONE BY : JINAY SHAH

2. WHAT IS ALIBABA ?
 Alibaba is the most popular destination for online
shopping, in the world's fastest growing e-
commerce market.
 Transactions on its online sites totaled $248
billion last year, more than those of eBay and
Amazon.com combined.
 Its three main sites — Taobao, Tmall and
Alibaba.com — have hundreds of millions of
users, and host millions of merchants and
businesses.
 Alibaba handles more business than any other e-
commerce company.
 80% of china’s online shopping market is
dominated by Alibaba.

3. HISTORY
 Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce
company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-
consumer and business-to-business sales services via web
portals.
 It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping
search engine and data-centric cloud computing services.
 The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website
Alibaba.com, a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese
manufacturers with overseas buyers.
 In 2012, two of Alibaba's portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170
billion) in sales.Suppliers from other countries are supported
(with more stringent checks than for Chinese companies), but
the company primarily operates in the People's Republic of
China (PRC).
 At closing time on the date of its initial public offering (IPO), 19
September 2014, Alibaba's market value was US$231 billion.
However, the stock has traded down and market cap was about
$212 billion at the end of December 2015.

4. THE MAN BEHIND ALIBABA
 Alibaba founder Jack Ma is the company’s
spiritual leader.
 When Alibaba needs a new innovation, it goes
back to his old apartment for inspiration. Mr. Ma
stepped down as CEO, but Alibaba’s current
corporate structure will let Mr. Ma and other top
brass nominate more than half of Alibaba's
board members.
 Alibaba chose to list in the U.S. because the
Hong Kong exchange refused to accept the
structure.

5. WHAT IS THEIR MARKETING STRATEGY
 Jack Ma's philosophy - Investors can get a taste from a
letter Mr. Ma sent to employees, on the day Alibaba filed its
IPO prospectus. In it, Mr. Ma warned about the ruthlessness
of the capital markets and pledged the company would stay
true to Alibaba's principles, which put customers before
shareholders.
 After the IPO, Mr. Ma became China’s richest man with a
net worth of $25 billion, according to the Hurun Rich List. Mr.
Ma owns a 7.8% stake in Alibaba and a 46% stake in the
Alipay electronic payment affiliate.

6. THEIR VALUATION
 PAST :- Alibaba -------------------215M
(USD)
Ranked #4 in 2016
 PRESENT :- Alibaba --------------- 389M
(USD)
Ranked # 8 in 2017

7. THEIR FUTURE PLANS
 The Challenges :- The world is going mobile, and Alibaba is competing
for China's smartphone users with new rivals. In its search for growth,
Alibaba is forging into new businesses — and bumping into powerful
players like Chinese banks and regulators. And will U.S. investors buy the
IPO of a company that is still largely unknown to them?
 SELLING THE ALIBABA STORY :- Alibaba's IPO is the largest in the
world. China's e-commerce market is still going strong and expectations
for Alibaba are high. Still, Alibaba is facing a slew of new business
challenges.
 THE RACE TO GO MOBILE :- China's 600 million-plus Internet users
are migrating to smartphones, setting off a scramble among the country's
Internet giants. Alibaba's toughest rival is Tencent, which runs the WeChat
mobile messaging application, with 355 million users. The companies are
spending billions of dollars to invest in businesses that can help them
compete.
 NEW FRONTIERS :- The newest frontier for Alibaba is financial
services. You can use Alibaba's Alipay payments app to buy theater
tickets and pay for taxis. You can also use it to invest in a money-market
fund. That fund, called Yu'e Bao, has already collected $87 billion in
assets. China's banks and regulators are starting to get alarmed.

8. COMPANIES OWNED BY ALIBABA
 BABA
 LAZADA
 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
 AUTONAVI
 TAOBAO
 ALIPAY
 ALIZILA NEWS
 ALIBABA PICTURES GROUP
 ALIWANGWANG AND LAIWANG

9. MY CONCLUSION OR MY VIEW ON THE
COMPANY