#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on December 19] Tmall Smart Maternity and Baby Room was launched in Shenzhen for the first time and entered the municipal public space; Wuxing Electric Appliances: 4,000 stores in 2025; Daily Special Sales Double 12 Results: Selling more than 10 million warm household items; YTO Express: November's express product revenue was 2.8 billion yuan, an increase of 21% year-on-year; Didi's 27 measures have been implemented to rectify, and hitchhiking has removed social functions...
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1. Tmall Smart Maternity and Baby Room is launched in Shenzhen for the first time and will be opened into municipal public spaces.
Tmall Mobile Maternal and Child Room has been launched in Shenzhen for the first time, with eight openings in Yantian District Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Youth Activity Center and Administrative Service Hall. This is also the first time that Tmall Smart Maternal and Child Room has been opened into municipal public spaces. The space of about 1 square meter is equipped with baby care tables, hand sanitizer, tissues, automatic induction trash cans, fire extinguishers and other equipment. As of December 1, 200 smart mother and baby rooms on Tmall have been built, covering 12 provinces, cities and special districts including Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, and Hong Kong. (Europe)
2. Wuxing Electric Appliances: 4,000 stores with sales of 80 billion in 2025
On December 18, the 20th anniversary celebration of Wuxing Electric Appliances was held in Nanjing. More than 200 well-known electrical appliance brands including Haier, Midea, Hisense, Siemens, Sony, Samsung, Sharp, Skyworth, AO Smith, Panasonic, Dyson, etc. gathered together.
At the meeting, Pan Yiqing, president of Wuxing Electric Appliances, announced the latest strategy of Wuxing Electric Appliances to expand the "pan-home appliance" ecosystem. By 2025, the total number of Wuxing Electric stores will reach 4,000, and annual sales are expected to reach 80 billion yuan. At the same time, we cooperated with our parent company Jiayuan to build 20 Jiayuan five-star squares, promote the omni-channel digital transformation with five-star characteristics and export experience to the outside world, and gradually become a retail service platform enterprise. (Yibang Power Network)
3. YTO Express: November's express product revenue was 2.8 billion yuan, an increase of 21% year-on-year
On December 18, YTO Express issued an announcement, disclosing the main operating data of express delivery business in November: In November, the company's express delivery product revenue was 2.803 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.39%; the business completed volume was 818 million tickets, a year-on-year increase of 30.54%; the single ticket revenue of express delivery product was 3.43 yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 7.01%. (Sina Finance)
4. Luckin Coffee joins hands with Meituan to deliver takeaways through Meituan.
According to the South China Morning Post, people familiar with the matter revealed that Luckin Coffee plans to cooperate with Dianping to deliver coffee and other food to customers through the latter's takeaway network.
Before the two companies announced their cooperation, their subsidiaries also announced their cooperation in August this year. Before working with Ele.me, Starbucks faced a slowdown in sales growth and lacked official distribution channels in China. (TechWeb)
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5. The new policy for withdrawal of deposits was introduced for 18 hours ofo platform to apply for a refund of nearly 900 million yuan.
Tencent's "First Line"'s application for withdrawal from detention on the ofo APP shows that the current ranking of withdrawal users has exceeded 9 million. Ofo's current user deposits are mainly 99 yuan and 199 yuan. If the conservative user deposit is only calculated at 99 yuan per bit, then the total user deposit of these more than 9 million users is close to 900 million yuan. (Tencent News Frontline)
6. Daily Special Sale Double 12 Results: Selling more than 10 million warm household products
Taobao’s “Daily Sale” data shows that on Double 12, it sold more than 10 million warm household items, and warm babies, hot water bags, and leggings are the most popular three-piece sets for winter. Behind the "hot products" is the beginning of Taobao's efforts to digitally transform the "Tiantian Factory".
The mid-tube wool socks cost 2.98 yuan per pair, the warm baby is 0.64 yuan per piece, the paper is 1.2 yuan per pack, and the 4 kilograms of laundry detergent for free shipping for 9.9 yuan... These latest "hot products" on Taobao's daily special sale have one thing in common: the ultimate cost-effectiveness. (Yibang Power)
7. Didi’s 27 measures have been implemented and rectified, and hitchhiking has removed social functions
On December 19, Didi will fully implement rectification in 27 measures in 7 aspects in accordance with the rectification requirements of the Ministry of Transport, among which it will continue to be offline to ride-sharing indefinitely. The social function of the ride-sharing in the rectification has been removed. Establish an emergency command mechanism led by the Safety Committee; set up safety departments in each subsidiary and branch to strengthen the construction of offline safety forces; continue to expand the customer service team, and at present, all safety-related incoming lines are undertaken by their own customer service. (Beijing News)
8. Hubei 5G Industry Alliance was established
On December 18, the Hubei 5G Industry Alliance was officially established in Wuhan. The alliance was established by China Mobile Hubei Company in multiple parties. According to reports, Hubei Mobile will invest RMB 1 billion in 2019 to build 2,000 5G base stations. In addition, we will also rely on China Mobile's 5G Joint Innovation Center to establish a local innovation incubator to provide innovation incubator services such as R&D resource package, capital docking, and technical support. (Titanium Media)
Cross-border e-commerce
9. Miniso filed a bankruptcy application for Canadian agents, and the headquarters responded: Try to ensure the normal operation of local stores
On December 18, in response to media reports that Miniso's agents in Canada have submitted bankruptcy applications to the court, Miniso's headquarters stated in a statement: "Minso adopts an agency business model in Canada. Due to problems with local agency companies' operations, Miniso's headquarters filed a bankruptcy application for it. Miniso is very popular in the Canadian market and has good market operations. The headquarters will try its best to ensure the normal operation of local stores." (Interface)
10. New list of "Top 500 World Brands": Amazon, Google and Apple are among the top three
According to news on December 18, among the latest "Top 500 World Brands", Amazon, Google and Apple rank in the top three. Judging from the country distribution of the number of brands, the United States occupies 223 seats, France and the United Kingdom have 43 and 42 brands on the list, ranking second and third respectively. Japan, China, Germany, Switzerland and Italy have 39, 38, 26, 21 and 15 brands respectively. (E-commerce News)
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