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Taobao and Tmall Group

Taobao, known as China’s eBay, is the largest e-commerce platform in China operated by the Alibaba Group. Founded in 2003, Taobao encourages consumer-to-consumer retail and mainly caters to buyers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Chairman / President

Daniel Zhang

CEO / Managing Director

Jiang Fan

CFO / Finance Director

Toby Xu

Industry

Conglomerate

Website

taobao.com

Headquarters address

Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd.,699 Wangshang Road,Binjiang District, Hangzhou,Zhejiang Province, China

Stock Code

NYSE:BABA HKSE:9988

Year founded

2003

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