Tencent and DHgate.com Sign Strategic Agreement to Create Social Commerce System
BEIJING, July 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- July 15th, 2016 in Beijing, DHgate.com and Tencent signed a strategic agreement to create a social cross-border e-commerce application. This social commerce system will make on demand B2B communication and deal making a reality for global buyers and sellers, to help DHagte.com to realize their goal of creating an online silk road.
DHgate.com's service system will be upgraded through Tencent's advantage in connectivity. The cooperation will have 3 phases. Phase 1 will be to co-develop a cross-border e-commerce instant messaging tool that will allow buyers and sellers to directly communicate anytime, anywhere. Phase 2 will be to co-develop a social cross-border customer relationship management system (SCRM). This new function will allow DHgate sellers to sort their customers into different categories so that sellers can deliver tailored marketing packages to different groups of buyers in order to help promote themselves. Phase 3 will be to build a social cross-border business platform together.
DHgate.com Founder and CEO Diane Wang said, "We have entered the era of global digitalization, according to a report from McKinsey, there are already 900 million people communicating cross-border through social media websites, and 360 million who participate in cross-border e-commerce. The future of the cross-border e-commerce industry has great potential, the cooperation with Tencent will make DHgate.com's all-in-one B2B service even more systematic, and will strengthen our leading position."
Xiangyu Wang, General Manager of Product Marketing in Tencent Qidian said, "The core value of Tencent Qidian is to help enterprises to have timely communication, and at the same time to connect all the different sections of service into one service program to make user interaction deeper and more effective."
ABOUT DHgate.com
DHgate.com is the first to market and the biggest transactional cross-border B2B e-commerce marketplace in China, aiming to provide global buyers with quality products at competitive prices. Founded in 2004, DHgate.com has approximately 10 million global buyers from 230 countries and regions, with 1.2 million global sellers offering 33 million products. DHgate.com's business enables buyers to directly access global manufacturers of the world's top brands with rich product selections. DHgate.com is an all-in-one platform with integrated services for international logistics, cross-border payments, internet financing, etc. DHgate.com's US product distribution warehouses allow for 24 hour delivery and convenient product returns & refunds, bringing great convenience to buyers at http://www.dhgate.com.
SOURCE DHgate.com
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