Taobao Special Edition announced a strategic upgrade, and the US second-hand e-commerce platform ThredUp went public

Taobao Special Edition announces strategic upgrade to create a full-category direct supply system

On March 25, Taobao Special Edition announced a strategic upgrade. In the next year, Taobao Special Edition will build a direct supply system for all categories, continue to subsidize daily consumer goods, and create a comprehensive e-commerce platform with the highest cost-effectiveness. It is understood that the core of the upgrade of Taobao Special Edition's direct supply system is the two major categories of fresh food and branded clothing. In addition to the "daily necessities on Taobao Special Edition" that has already formed a mindset, the affordable "new three things" of food, clothing and daily necessities are fully covered, thus Taobao Special Edition has also become a "general student" in the sinking market.

Beauty MCN "May Beauty" completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing

The beauty MCN "May Beauty" recently completed the A round of financing of tens of millions of yuan from Woyong Fund. After the completion of this round of financing, May Beauty will incubate more professional talents to optimize its layout in the e-commerce field, focusing on live broadcasting, celebrity store incubation, brand DP business, and supply chain optimization; at the same time, it will try to incubate its own beauty brands. May Beauty is a content-based MCN company that mainly incubates beauty talents. It produces more than 20,000 beauty videos every year and currently has a total of 200 million fans on the entire network (TikTok, Kuaishou, Xiaohongshu, TIKTOK, Weibo, and Taobao).

Amazon calls on Indian government not to change foreign investment rules for e-commerce, media says

Amazon appealed to the Indian government on Thursday not to change foreign investment rules until an investigation into Amazon's business practices is concluded, Reuters reported, citing sources. Earlier, Indian retailers accused Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart of creating complex structures to circumvent India's foreign investment rules and harm the interests of small merchants, and these retailers are an important part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's support base.

Kuaishou E-commerce held a gravity conference in Hangzhou

Kuaishou E-commerce announced that it will hold the "2021 Kuaishou E-commerce Gravity Conference" in Hangzhou on March 26. This is the first time that Kuaishou E-commerce has spoken to the outside world in the form of an industry conference since its establishment. At this "2021 Kuaishou E-commerce Gravity Conference", Kuaishou E-commerce will further release the "bonus plan" to release dividends for anchors, brands and service providers from the perspectives of products, marketing, traffic, etc., to help merchants achieve faster development in 2021.

Yancheng's first cross-border e-commerce "9710" enterprise export tax rebate completed

Recently, the Municipal Taxation Bureau successfully completed the export tax rebate declaration for Dongtai Jiangling Import and Export Co., Ltd. with an export value of US$78,200, and handled a total of 44,800 yuan in export tax rebates, and achieved the business of "accepting on the same day and completing it on the next day". This is also the first export tax rebate for a "9710" (trading mode is B2B direct export) enterprise in our city's cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone.

ThredUp, a US second-hand e-commerce platform, went public, and second-hand e-commerce became popular

ThredUp, an e-commerce platform focusing on second-hand clothing for women and children, will officially land on the Nasdaq. Its IPO price is $12 to $14 per share, and the market generally has positive expectations for its stock price performance. The RealReal and Poshmark, two major Silicon Valley second-hand e-commerce companies that went public before it, rose 44% and 141% respectively on the day of listing. So far, the three major second-hand fashion trading platforms in the United States have all successfully listed, and the second-hand sneaker resale platform StockX and the second-hand platform in the same city OfferUp have also lined up behind. Behind the prosperity of capital, it reflects the strong purchasing power of consumers in the second-hand market.

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