Posts Tagged: group buy


China's daily deals market 2013

China’s Daily Deals Market Hits $1.7 Billion in Q1, Not So Fragmented Any More

It’s time to check back in with China’s massive daily deals industry and see how all the Groupon-like sites are progressing in Q...

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  • May 27, 2013
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Alibaba launches Juhuasuan in Hong Kong and Taiwan

In a Challenge to Groupon, Alibaba Takes Daily Deals to Hong Kong and Taiwan

China’s top e-commerce player, Alibaba, also runs the nation’s leading daily deals site. Run under the familiar Taobao brand name and UR...

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  • April 8, 2013
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China’s Top Make-Up Deals Site on Track to $100 Million in Profit for 2013

If you asked 100 Chinese people where they buy online deals for discounted restaurant meals, then I suspect most would give wildly different...

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  • March 12, 2013
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In China’s Daily Deals Market, You Now Need $32+ Million Monthly Revenue to Be a Player

We’re following China’s daily deals market very closely, digging into quarterly market share data as soon as we can get our hands on it....

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  • February 8, 2013
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Taobao Juhuasuan sales revenue

China’s Top Daily Deals Site Sees $3.3 Billion in Sales in 2012

After the initial kerfuffle over Groupon clones in China a couple of years ago, the daily deals sector in the country ended up being dominat...

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  • January 7, 2013
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China’s Boldest Groupon Clone to Launch Open Group Buying Platform: a World First?

Innovation isn’t something you would normally expect fron Tuanbao, China’s most blatant Groupon clone. After all, Tuanbao CEO Re...

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  • December 7, 2012
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China daily deals market share 2012

Huge Consolidation of Market Share in China’s Daily Deals Sector [CHARTS]

We’ve been seeing China’s hotly-contested daily deals industry settle down a bit in the past year – and now new data for 2...

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  • November 22, 2012
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Groupon Opens Doors on Another Retail Store, This Time in Hong Kong

The doyen of daily deals, Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN), opened a new brick-and-mortar store in Hong Kong earlier today. It comes just over four mon...

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  • November 16, 2012
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Meituan Nearing $155 Million/Month in Transactions

After a lively explosion a couple years ago, most of China’s group buy sites have long since died out. But Meituan, which has been a t...

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  • May 3, 2013
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Rumor: Baidu Interested in Buying Aibang

TechWeb yesterday reported quite an interesting rumor: Baidu is interested in buying the commerce search and group buy company Aibang. Aiban...

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  • March 20, 2013
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Baidu new daily deals site

Baidu Launches a Daily Deals Site (But Not for the First Time)

We tend to write about daily deals sites in China shutting down, not opening up. So this week’s quiet launch of a new deals portal run...

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  • February 28, 2013
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24Quan Closes For Good

Chinese group buying site 24Quan, once in the country’s top five deals sites, has been in the rough for some time now, and it suspende...

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  • January 11, 2013
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One Chinese Daily Deals Site Finds Unobtainium, Holy Grail, and Profitability

China’s daily deals market is about as crowded as a Beijing bus in a rainy rush hour, and so a lot of Groupon-like sites are struggling on...

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  • December 27, 2012
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The Impact of Vietnam’s Fallen Group Buying Star

Although Nhom Mua, Vietnam’s leading group-buying site, is finally back online, the news of its investigation by authorities – and t...

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  • December 3, 2012
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Mogujie Looks Beyond Pinterest Roots, Launches Daily Deals Channels

Entering China’s ferocious daily deals sector – where thouands of sites go out of business every year – seems about as att...

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  • November 21, 2012
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24Quan, Once China’s 5th-Biggest Daily Deals Site, Suspends Operations

The troubled Chinese daily deals site 24Quan.com has announced that it is suspending its business for a few weeks – and that it “...

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  • October 19, 2012
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