India: the E-Commerce Battleground
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 9:46 am
This guest article was written by William Laraque who is the Managing Director of US-International Trade Services.
The varying strategies whereby Amazon and Alibaba expand in India will one day provide an interesting case study of the global expansion strategies of e-commerce companies.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is looking to India and Southeast Asia for its next big growth surge. The Chinese e-commerce giant has made a steady series of acquisitions and tactical moves that suggest a concerted regional strategy as business in its home market matures, the WSJ reports.
Analysts say that e-commerce in India, the world’s second-most-populous country, could take ... (read more)