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Alibaba Single Day sales hit $10 billion in Less than 30 minutes
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Alibaba Single Day sales hit $10 billion in Less than 30 minutes

E-commerce giant Alibaba's Singles' Day sales hit USD 10 billion in less than 30 minutes of the event going live. The Alibaba Group's various shopping platforms' total gross merchandise value (GMV) exceeded USD 10 billion in only 29 minutes and 45 seconds, while it took just 1 minute and 8 seconds to achieve a total GMV of USD 1 billion, after the Chinese e-commerce behemoth kicked off it's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. Within the first two hours, the total GMV exceeded 120.7 billion renminbi (USD 17.24 billion), surpassing the total GMV of 2016 11.11. Some of the top countries selling to China by GMV included Japan, United States, South Korea, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom and France. According to Alibaba, the number of orders created at the peak of the 2019 11.11 Glob...
Alibaba Singles’ Day Broke Last Year’s Record, 11 Hours Before End
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Alibaba Singles’ Day Broke Last Year’s Record, 11 Hours Before End

Alibaba's Singles' Day shopping bonanza has broke last year's all time high of $18.2 billion by 1:09 PM in Beijing with hours to go before the final bell. The annual frenzy had already hit $8.6 billion in sales in the first hour after starting at midnight, and by 8 a.m. some 82 brands had topped 100 million yuan in sales including New Balance, Samsung and Shiseido, according to Alizila, a blog run by the company. More than 90 percent of transactions were done via mobile. Shoppers from at least 192 countries and regions swarmed the e-commerce giant to scoop up discounted lobster, iPhones and refrigerators, at a rate of as many as 256,000 transactions per second. The Chinese company hosted a star-studded gala with tennis star Maria Sharapova and American rapper Pharrell Williams to pum...