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  • Alibaba to license 10,000 physical stores

    Alibaba announced on Monday that Tmall.com will license more than 10,000 physical stores in China this fiscal year.

    August29,2017


  • Alibaba to license 10,000 physical stores

    Alibaba announced on Monday that Tmall.com will license more than 10,000 physical stores in China this fiscal year.

    August29,2017


  • Physical meetings of Italian institutional representatives to be restored in Beijing

    In economic terms, great results have been reached concerning export to China in the first ten months of 2021, with a steady 28.3% growth compared to the same period of 2020, namely +20% on pre-pandemic 2019 levels, and with 12.81-billion-euro goods and services exported from Italy

    December15,2021


  • JD.com plans to open more physical stores

    JD.com Inc, China's second-biggest e-commerce player, plans to open 200 more bricks-and-mortar stores-mainly offering consumer electronics products-by the end of this year.

    August14,2017


  • VW is betting on e-cars’ speedy success

    Volkswagen wants to rapidly push ahead its transformation into an e-car manufacturer. By 2022, 27 models from four of the group’s brands will be launched on the basis of its own the specially created e-car platform, said Thomas Ulbrich, member of the...

    September20,2018


  • Italian luxury footwear at a physical exhibition in Moscow

    Thanks to the format studied by BolognaFiere, fifty Italian footwear producers have been able to exhibit their collections at the ongoing fair in Moscow with the support of the local personnel, in contact with Italian sellers via web.

    March26,2021


  • VW plants in northeast China gradually resume production

    ​After a one-month shutdown due to the coronavirus lockdown in Changchun in northeast China, the Volkswagen Group plants in the Chinese city have gradually resumed production.

    April21,2022


  • VW and Belgium's Umicore launch battery materials joint venture

    Volkswagen's battery unit and Belgian materials company Umicore have formed a joint venture to produce the materials needed for batteries, the two companies announced.

    September28,2022


  • Winter has come for physical outlets in age of e-commerce

    The closure of a 27-year-old shopping mall in Beijing has sparked sadness that winter has come for physical stores in the age of e-commerce. North Star Shopping Center in the Asian Games Village (Yayuncun) announced its closure Monday.

    January12,2018


  • U.S. experts laud physical and people-to-people connections of BRI

    The Belt and Road Initiative proposed by China to connect the Euroasia landmass is "the right thing to do", said Jeffrey Sachs, leading economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and senior UN advisor.

    May15,2019


  • Across China: Physically challenged share in China's livestreaming boom

    Shi Zaohua, a 29-year-old wheelchair user, has garnered a huge following of 200,000 fans since finding her niche in livestreaming e-commerce.

    November12,2020


  • VW commercial vehicle group Traton sees orders drop from record high

    The Volkswagen Group's lorry and bus subsidiary, Traton, saw commercial vehicle orders drop by 21% last year, after a very strong 2022.

    January24,2024


  • VW teams up with JAC to make electric cars

    A joint venture between Volkswagen China and Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC Motors) to make electric cars has been approved by Chinese authorities.

    May24,2017


  • VW and Amazon to partner on cloud services for assembly plants

    Volkswagen is to join forces with Amazon in creating a cloud services partnership to boost productivity at its assembly plants, the German carmaker announced from its Wolfsburg headquarters on Wednesday.

    March29,2019


  • BMW and VW occupy top positions in comparison of carmakers

    At the beginning of 2018, BMW and Volkswagen once again occupied the top positions in a global comparison of car manufacturers.

    May31,2018


  • VW Group head Diess: Digitalization will lead to job cuts

    Digitalization is set to lead to job cuts at Germany's Volkswagen Group, Herbert Diess, the head of the management board, said at its Wolfsburg headquarters on Wednesday.

    March25,2019


  • VW plans to make 1st cars with JAC by 2018

    Volkswagen AG plans to make its first cars with China’s Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC Motors) by 2018 and hopes the joint venture will get government approval in the first half of this year, its China CEO said on January 19.

    January22,2017


  • VW pushes platform business - new logistics center in Eastern Germany

    ​The German carmaker Volkswagen is pushing ahead with its cooperation with Ford and plans to put a new logistics hall into operation in Meerane (in the Zwickau district of the eastern German state of Saxony) for this purpose at the beginning of 2023.

    May05,2022


  • VW subsidiary Sitech, supplier Brose plan joint venture

    The Volkswagen seat manufacturer Sitech aims to set up a joint venture with the car components company Brose.

    July15,2020


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