#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on July 19]

      Morning news: "Jingtan" is here on JD customer service system! Realize the "tailor-made" of full-scene solutions; Taobao Intangible Cultural Heritage Consumption Trend Report: 14 intangible cultural heritage industry belts have annual transactions of over 100 million yuan; Meituan Taxi" WeChat mini program is launched; Amazon's "purchase and delivery" service achieves three major upgrades involving new coverage sites, etc.; Vipshop's world's only central warehouse project is launched in the West Coast New District...

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1. The "Beijing Talk" of JD customer service system is here! Realize "tailored" full-scene solution

      On July 18, JD Retail Cloud officially released the full-process customer service system "Jingtan" as a customer service system that has grown and developed from JD Retail Ecology and logistics ecosystem. It will "tailor-made" full-scene solutions for enterprise-level customers, and strive to improve the speed, security and intelligence of enterprise customer service operation and maintenance. At present, the Jingtan customer service system has also fully supported the customer service businesses such as JD Mall and JD Logistics, with practical experience and tests on large-scale calls, and has high stability and maturity. (Yibang Power)

2. Taobao intangible cultural heritage consumption trend report: 14 intangible cultural heritage industry belts have annual transactions of over 100 million yuan

      July 17th news, recently, the Cultural and Tourism Industry Index Laboratory and Taobao jointly released a "Intangible Cultural Heritage Consumption Trend Report" at the Shanghai Taobao Creation Festival. The report shows that as of the end of June, 14 intangible cultural heritage industry belts sold over 100 million yuan on Taobao last year; the transaction scale of intangible cultural heritage time-honored brands has increased for three consecutive years; the number of active intangible cultural heritage handicraft stores on Taobao has exceeded 25,000, and nearly 5,000 intangible cultural heritage-related stores have joined the original protection plan. (E-commerce News)

3. Meituan Taxi” WeChat mini program is released

      According to July 19, Meituan recently launched the "Meituan Taxi" WeChat mini program. The mini program changed its name at the end of June, and changed from "Meituan Taxi Marketing Account" to "Meituan Taxi". The Meituan Taxi mini program is no different from the Meituan Taxi App, providing intelligent checking services and 23 types of car models. (Yibang Power)

4. News says Alibaba MMC has undergone personnel adjustments again

      It is understood that Chen Tongtong was the former head of the retail communication business department, but in June 2020, Alibaba's senior management personnel changed a lot. After the retail giant RT-Mart handed over to Lin Xiaohai, president of the retail communication business department, Chen Tongtong transferred to the Taobao department. After establishing the MMC business group, he returned again and was in charge of the commodity department. In fact, news came out last month that Alibaba MMC had made a new personnel adjustment. On June 24, Link Insight reported that Zou Zhijun, the former MMC business group channel leader, has been transferred, and his position in charge is taken over by Li Bo, the former B2B business group operation financial director. (E-commerce News)

Cross-border newsletter

5. Walmart establishes a partnership with fashion brand Justice

      On July 18, on July 15, local time, Walmart announced a partnership with fashion brand Justice. Through this cooperation, Justice will have more than 140 products sold in 2,400 Walmart stores and Walmart websites, covering a variety of categories such as clothing, jewelry accessories, bedding, backpacks, stationery, etc. Denise Incandela, executive vice president of clothing and private label at Walmart in the United States, said in a statement that Walmart has been working hard to expand its fashion category, and in the past few years, Walmart has added more than 1,000 national fashion brands. (E-commerce News)

6. Amazon's third-party brand acquisition company Unybrands receives US$300 million in financing

      According to reports on July 18, Amazon's third-party brand acquisition company Unybrand has recently received US$300 million in growth funds from Crayhill Capital Management. Public information shows that Unybrands was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Miami. It mainly provides Amazon with FBA, Shopify DTC, WMT and other e-commerce services. The company received US$25 million in seed financing in February this year. Unybrands said the company has completed multiple acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe since its seed financing in February, as well as more ongoing acquisitions, which will put the company on the horizon to exceed expectations of closing 20 deals in 2021. (Yibang Power)

7. Amazon's "Purchase and Delivery" service achieves three major upgrades involving new coverage sites, etc.

      On July 18, Amazon Global Store opened a notice yesterday stating that recently, Amazon's "buying and delivery" service has ushered in three major upgrades. Among them, the service coverage site has added Mexico and the Netherlands stations in addition to the original United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and India. Currently, there are 10 sites that can enjoy the "buy and delivery" service. (E-commerce News)

8. Vipshop's world's only central warehouse project is launched in the West Coast New Area

      July 17th news, recently, as a leading cross-border e-commerce company, Vipshop's world's only central warehouse project was launched in the West Coast New District. It is expected that the first-line import volume of cross-border e-commerce "1210" model will be realized in Qingdao this year. According to Wang Hongjiang, head of the warehouse of Vipshop Qingdao Center, the first phase of the project has a storage area of ​​about 40,000 square meters, a storage area of ​​30,000 square meters, and can store 4.5 million to 6 million parcels, and the daily peak order volume can reach 150,000 orders. This time, Vipshop once again tilted its national business focus to Qingdao, and upgraded it from a general bonded warehouse to a central warehouse. (E-commerce News)

Internet Information

9. Make a friend: The payment amount in the live broadcast room exceeded 100 million yuan on July 17

      On July 19, Luo Yonghao forwarded a friend's battle report on Weibo: As of 01:00 on July 18, the payment amount of a friend's live broadcast room exceeded 100 million yuan, the number of transaction orders was 283,900, and the cumulative number of viewers was 5.4579 million. (Yibang Power)

10. The new liquor retail brand "Jiaoting 1990" received tens of millions of yuan in Series A investment

      July 18th news, recently, the new Internet liquor retail brand "Jiuting 1990" announced that it has received tens of millions of yuan in the A round of investment of Chuangxiang Huanju Fund, a subsidiary of Pernod Riga. According to reports, Jiuting 1990 was established in 2018 and is operated by Shanghai Yinyu Industrial Co., Ltd. It was originally a pure e-commerce business, and then began to deploy offline retail. Later, it was committed to creating a new retail format that integrates online mall data reach and offline new retail trial experience. (E-commerce News)