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Alibaba merges domestic, global ecommerce units

Alibaba Group will merge its domestic and overseas ecommerce operations into one unit.

This restructuring represents Alibaba’s most significant organizational change since dividing into six units earlier in 2023.

The new ecommerce group will integrate existing Alibaba operations such as Taobao and Tmall Group, Alibaba International Digital Commerce, 1688 Marketplace, and Idle Fish.

Jiang Fan, the former head of Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, will lead this unified ecommerce entity and report directly to Eddie Wu Yongming, Alibaba’s CEO.

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