The company's Rural Taobao arm is training Taobao assistants in villages and building logistics branches in rural areas, says Li Tianyu, a project manager at Rural Taobao. It is also promoting agricultural products on the front pages of online shopping websites, providing unsecured loans for farmers and analyzing big data to provide feedback to help farmers to improve production efficiency, says Li.
The company, based in South China's Guangdong province, sold more than 4 million TV sets in the US market in 2017.
The company was waiting for the granting of an immovable property rights certificate, an indispensable document for banks to lend money to it.
The company said although International Women's Day, which has been dubbed the "queen's day" by retailers in China, fell amid the outbreak of COVID-19 this year, sales of more than 20,000 brands participating in promotional retail events in China on the day doubled from the previous year, with both old and new brands experiencing a sales surge.
The company, which recently introduced Sunday delivery, said that it has converted more than 10,000 seasonal employees into?full-time staffers this year, and that it plans to do so again after the holidays. Those interested in applying for a temporary job can do so here.
The company said that Jetta, as an entry-level brand, will be produced at its Chinese joint venture FAW-Volkswagen's plant in Chengdu.
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The company plans to invest billion in artificial intelligence between this year and 2022, with China the main target market in which the company anticipates huge demand, on the back of the added emphasis on AI development.
The company, which employs more than 200, has 3.6 million customers in 100 countries. In order to keep up with the growth in the digital book arena, Humphrey said that Kobo will likely expand in Seattle where he’s based.
The company said new enterprise customers will maintain a relatively rapid growth as a large number of people return to big cities and more companies tell employees to work from home.
The company is preparing to start its pre-IPO financing in Q2 2018, and plans to go public in the US within the next year, according to CEO Bar El.