{"id":3131,"date":"2009-04-17T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T05:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2009-04-17T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T05:02:42","slug":"uniqlo-starts-online-sales-in-mainland-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/uniqlo-starts-online-sales-in-mainland-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniqlo Starts Online Sales in Mainland China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3143\" title=\"Uniqlo's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/uniqlo_logo.gif\" alt=\"Uniqlo's Logo\" width=\"62\" height=\"61\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3134\" title=\"Alibaba China's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/alibabachina_logo.gif\" alt=\"Alibaba China's Logo\" width=\"170\" height=\"42\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3135\" title=\"Taobao's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/taobao_logo.png\" alt=\"Taobao's Logo\" width=\"167\" height=\"43\" \/><br \/>\nJapan-based casual clothing retailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastretailing.com\/eng\/\">First Retailing<\/a>(its brandname, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniqlo.com\/us\/\">Uniqlo<\/a>) started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniqlo.cn\">its online sales in Mainland China[C]<\/a>, in tie-up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taobao.com\/\">Taobao[C]<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Taobao is China&#8217;s largest\u00a0online shopping\u00a0mall by the e-commerce giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/\">Alibaba<\/a>, and it engages more than 100 million frantic shoppers in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first independent entry by a Japanese large retailer to China&#8217;s e-commerce market.\u00a0\u00a0 Uniqlo&#8217;s CEO Tadashi Yanai unveiled the company is aiming to grow its online sales up to 10% of Uniqlo&#8217;s entire retail business in Mainland China.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3136\" title=\"TransCosmos' Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/transcosmos_logo.jpg\" alt=\"TransCosmos' Logo\" width=\"95\" height=\"48\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcosmos-cn.com\/EN\/\">Shanghai Transcosmos<\/a>, a local subsidiary of Japan&#8217;s large BPO (business process outsourcing) provider, handles all the back-end processes for Uniqlo&#8217;s new e-commerce site.\u00a0\u00a0 Transcoscmos has call center facilities in Beijing and Shanghai, and\u00a0the two sites have\u00a0560 seats for call center representatives.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3137\" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Uniqlo China's EC Site\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/uniqlochina.jpg\" alt=\"Uniqlo China's EC Site\" width=\"459\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Japan-based casual clothing retailer First Retailing(its brandname, Uniqlo) started its online sales in Mainland China[C], in tie-up with Taobao[C].\u00a0\u00a0 Taobao is China&#8217;s largest\u00a0online shopping\u00a0mall by the e-commerce giant Alibaba, and it engages more than 100 million frantic shoppers in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first independent entry by a Japanese large retailer to China&#8217;s&hellip; 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