Insight Report | May 10, 2018 Premium China Tech Briefings: Alibaba to Bring Its Tmall Genie Smart Speaker to Mercedes, Audis and Volvos in ChinaThis is our inaugural China Tech Briefings In this series, we will track news and developments related to China technology companies and share our viewpoints on how these will impact the retail sector and the overall economy. Read More
Company Earnings Update | May 8, 2018 Register for Free Access Alibaba (BABA) 4Q18 Results: Strong Revenue Growth, Although Margin Was SqueezedAlibaba reported 4Q18 revenues of ¥61.9 billion, up 61% year over year. The company attributed the strong results to the robust revenue growth from its core commerce segment, as well as the Alibaba Cloud business. Read More
Insight Report | May 7, 2018 Premium Chico’s Brand Apparel and Accessories Will Be Sold on Amazon Later This MonthChico’s FAS announced that it will offer Chico’s brand apparel and accessories on Amazon.com beginning in mid-May 2018. Read More
Event Coverage | April 18, 2018 Register for Free Access World Retail Congress 2018, Day 1: Hearing About the “Retail Apocalypse,” Chinese Retail and the Need for Change in Brick-and-MortarThe Coresight Research team is attending World Retail Congress 2018 in Madrid this week. Here are our top takeaways from day one of the conference: Read More
Event Coverage | April 18, 2018 Register for Free Access Key Takeaways from the JD.com AI Innovation SummitThe Coresight Research team attended the AI Innovation Summit hosted by JD.com in Beijing, China, on April 15. JD.com has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) research and application in China and its inaugural AI summit was attended by top scientists, industry analysts, retail executives and technology professionals. Read More
Flash Report | April 10, 2018 Register for Free Access Quick Take: Prime Members Drive Amazon Sales Across All CategoriesThis brief report looks at the results of our recent survey which asked US consumers what they had bought on Amazon in the past year. We split out Amazon Prime members to chart how significant these shoppers are to Amazon’s overall shopper penetration. Read More
Flash Report | April 5, 2018 Register for Free Access Alibaba Takes Control of Food Delivery Startup Ele.meAlibaba announced on April 2 that it will acquire Shanghai-based online delivery and local services platform Ele.me in a transaction that values the company at US$9.5 billion. Read More
Insight Report | March 28, 2018 Premium Digital Red Packets: WeChat’s Successful Foray into Mobile PaymentSending and giving red packets, or red envelopes, containing cash is a long-held Chinese tradition at Lunar New Year. Leveraging on this, WeChat, China’s most-used messaging app, introduced a function to send digital red packets back in 2014. Read More
Insight Report | March 15, 2018 Premium Amazon Apparel: Who Is Selling What? An Exclusive Analysis of Nearly 1 Million Clothing Listings on Amazon FashionIn this report, we present an analysis of Amazon’s clothing offering based on aggregated data on almost 1 million women’s and men’s clothing products listed on the company’s Amazon Fashion US website. Read More
Insight Report | March 13, 2018 Premium WeChat Mini Programs: Opening Up New Pathways for Selling WeChat Mini Programs are mobile applications of less than 10 megabytes that WeChat users can access directly through the platform’s messaging app—users do not have to download these mini apps separately or register to use them. In this report, we explore some of the new ways of selling that WeChat Mini Programs have enabled. Read More
Flash Report | February 28, 2018 Register for Free Access Amazon Offers 5% Back for Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card Users at Whole FoodsOn February 20, Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced that Amazon Prime Rewards Visa cardmembers would earn 5% back on Whole Foods Market purchases. Read More
Insight Report | February 22, 2018 Premium Amazon’s Patents: Measuring the Tech Giant’s Intellectual PropertyIn this report, we explore Amazon’s patent initiatives and history and examine some of the company’s latest inventions. Read More
Deep Dive | February 15, 2018 Premium Amazon Apparel – US Survey Reveals What Shoppers Buy, Which Retailers They Have Switched from and Their Attitudes Toward Amazon as a Fashion RetailerOur survey of US shoppers has uncovered a wealth of findings on Amazon Fashion including Amazon Prime purchases, competition with Target, private label offerings, demographics and shopper satisfaction. Read More
Insight Report | February 14, 2018 Premium US Retailers Ready to Cater to Chinese New Year Shoppers with Mobile PaymentsMany Chinese tourists are currently preparing to travel overseas during the Lunar New Year celebration, which begins on February 16 and runs through March 2 this year.In the US, hundreds of thousands of retailers and service providers are ready to cater to these tourists by offering them the mobile-wallet payment options they prefer, such as Alipay. Read More
Insight Report | February 12, 2018 Premium Retail Reworked – Part 3: The Future of Physical Stores – Four Areas of OpportunityThis report concludes our three-part Retail Reworked series, which considers changes in spending trends and consumer demand. As e-commerce skims off ever more purchases—particularly those that are planned, functional in nature or of higher-value products—physical stores can benefit by focusing on one or more of the following propositions: Read More
