JD.com

jd.com
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: JD
Headquarters Beijing, China
Founder(s) Liu Qiangdong
Industry Internet, Online retailing
Revenue Increase CNY 181.287 billion (2015)[1]
Employees 94,615 (Sep 30, 2015)[2]
Website www.jd.com
Alexa rank Increase 88 (February 2016)[3]
Type of site E-commerce
Advertising Web banner
Launched 1998

JD.com or Jingdong Mall (Chinese: 商城; pinyin: Jīngdōng Shāngchéng), formerly 360buy,[4] is a Chinese electronic commerce company headquartered in Beijing. It is one of the largest B2C online retailers in China by transaction volume, and a major competitor to Alibaba-run Tmall.[5][6] Its English website, for worldwide shipping, launched on October 18, 2012.

The company was founded by Liu Qiangdong (a.k.a. Richard Liu) in July 1998, and its B2C platform went online in 2004. It started as an online magneto-optical store, but soon diversified, selling electronics, mobile phones, computers, etc. Jingdong Mall changed the domain name to 360buy.com in June 2007, and to JD.com in 2013.

History

Awards & Accomplishments

References

  1. JD.com Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results // JD.com
  2. "About JD.com". jd.com. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. "jd.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  4. China's B2C E-commmerce Giant 360buy Rebrands, Retrieved December 3, 2013
  5. "Selling on JD.com in China". Sampi. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  6. Lessons from an early failure, FT.com, Retrieved December 3, 2013
  7. Tencent to Buy 15% Stake in JD.com to Boost E-Commerce // Bloomberg, March 10, 2014

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