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...Michael OrlandoChina is no longer the China that you think of, as you know, building low quality things en masse....
...Marco Bizzarri, Gucci’s chief executive, said two years ago in Shanghai that the firm was not willing to work with Alibaba or JD.com, two of China’s leading online retailers, as there was “a lot of counterfeiting...
...Fast-forward to 2021, and luxury brands have joined Farfetch en masse, now making up 40 per cent of sellers and half of the supply, according to JPMorgan estimates....
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...But the arrival of the Chinese groups en masse is a game-changer....
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...Just six months ago, Deripaska managed to persuade enough investors to snap up shares in his EN+ hydropower-to-aluminium conglomerate to allow him to raise more than $1bn....
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...Suning will also open a store on Alibaba’s Tmall.com online platform. Even so, some still see this as a gamble....
...Konga.com, his ecommerce start-up, has grown rapidly since its launch in 2012....
...Other Chinese factories manufacturing dual-use goods advertised on Alibaba.com said export controls were not an issue....
...Fuelling the competition is China’s en-masse entry into the mobile internet era....
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