Company
Listed
Alibaba
Alibaba Group Holding Limited was founded in 1999 and operates commerce, logistics and cloud computing businesses. It is listed in New York and Hong Kong and headquartered in Hangzhou, China.
Its marketplaces connect buyers and sellers rather than holding much inventory, earning from advertising, commissions and services sold to merchants. Alibaba Cloud is a substantial computing business in its own right, and the group has been reorganised more than once under regulatory pressure at home.
For African importers and traders, Alibaba’s platforms are a working supply channel, which makes its logistics, payment and trust mechanisms a practical business matter rather than a distant one.
