"... über 100 Shops für Kleidung waren bei Ali und JD vertreten und Ali hat sie gezwungen zu entscheiden, entweder oder.
Und sie haben sich gegen JD und für ali entschieden...."
It was fairly big news that, at least according to JD.com, competitor Alibaba forced some smaller domestic Chinese apparel brands to choose between the two platforms. The result of that was that some 100 of these left the JD.com platform, and apparel revenues were flat for the quarter as a result.
Management argued that they have experienced similar ploys before but were always able to overcome these problems, from the Q3CC:
"our history experienced many of these competition, where our competitor would force the merchants choose one out of two platforms, almost every two to three years.... we have overcomed all those competitive pressures and have become the largest category leader in all of these categories. So, today out of the 14 major categories, we are the leader in 12 of them
And funny enough, apparel is one of these categories they are not leading in and the company again experienced this type of ploy. But management believes this too, will pass, from the Q3CC:
"even though our current quarter actually saw stagnant growth in the apparel category, which could also last two quarters to three quarters, but we are confident that past ? beyond the next two quarters to three quarters, we will see growth resume again and just as we saw in other categories reach inflection point.
Note also that these brands that left didn't leave completely, from the Q3CC:
"So you actually see these merchants still utilizing JD platform for other services such as advertising and marketing services.
Quelle:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/...91f29bd2fd80009f75195295&dr=1