Recently I read this article about Alibaba.com‘s European Market entry. It summarized the very interesting Alibaba.com case:

• Alibaba.com is the largest Chinese B2B Marketplace (matchmaker between buyers and sellers of all kinds of goods, from T-Shirts to Trains or Factories) and rapidly growing worldwide (28M Users)
• In November 2007, Alibaba.com raised $1.7B in an IPO
• Revenue for 2007 was 200M EUR and profit was 87M EUR
• Alibaba.com recently opened an office in Geneva to push the Swiss and European Market Entry

http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=ba667f6469fa47aab28e8b1dfe828ec1

The most interesting thing about Franck Muller is that they started really late, in 1992, with 3 employees. And 15 years later, they have 850 employees. Wow! More information about the company

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