- CEO
- Yongming Wu
- Full Time Employees
- 124,320
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Specialty Retail
- Address
- 969 West Wen Yi Road Hangzhou People's Republic of China 311121
- IPO Date
- Nov 27, 2019
- Business
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABAF) operates as a multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, internet infrastructure, cloud computing, logistics, digital media, and entertainment services. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China, the company offers a diverse portfolio of platforms and services through segments including Alibaba China E-commerce Group with Taobao and Tmall for consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer retail, Tmall Supermarket, Freshippo for fresh groceries, Alibaba Health, and 1688 wholesale; Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group encompassing AliExpress, Lazada in Southeast Asia, Trendyol in Turkey, Daraz in South Asia, and Alibaba.com for global business-to-business transactions; Cloud Intelligence Group providing Alibaba Cloud with elastic computing, storage, databases, big data, AI, security, and hardware solutions; Cainiao Smart Logistics Network for domestic and international fulfillment; Local Consumer Services featuring Ele.me food delivery, Amap navigation, and Fliggy travel; and All Others including Youku video streaming, Quark search, UC browser, DingTalk collaboration tools, Tmall Genie smart speakers, and Qwen AI chatbot. Alibaba maintains extensive geographic operations across China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Turkey, Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and other regions with offices, data centers, and marketplaces serving consumers, merchants, businesses, governments, and developers worldwide. In recent developments, the company reorganized in June 2025 by combining Taobao and Tmall Group, Ele.me, and Fliggy into Alibaba China E-commerce Group while reclassifying Cainiao, Amap, and Hujing Digital Media and Entertainment Group under All Others to streamline operations and advance a user-first strategy; deepened its strategic partnership with Bosch in September 2025 to promote AI-powered digital innovation; and alongside Ant Group, acquired the One Causeway Bay office property in Hong Kong in October 2025, marking the largest such transaction there since 2021.