COMPANY OVERVIEW ALIBABA GROUPS MISSION IS TO MAKE
COMPANY OVERVIEW ALIBABA GROUP’S MISSION IS TO MAKE IT EASY TO DO BUSINESS ANYWHERE. We enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate. We provide the fundamental technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands and other businesses to leverage the power of the Internet to engage with their users and customers. Our businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, innovation initiatives and others. Through our subsidiary Cainiao Network and investee affiliate Koubei, respectively, we participate in the logistics and local services sectors. In addition, we have a strategic relationship with Ant Financial Services, the financial services group that operates mainly through Alipay, the leading third-party online payment platform in China.
OUR VISION We aim to build the future infrastructure of commerce. We envision that our customers will meet, work and live at Alibaba, and that we will be a company that lasts at least 102 years. Meet @ Alibaba We enable hundreds of millions of commercial and social interactions among our users, between consumers and merchants, and among businesses every day. Work @ Alibaba We empower our customers with the fundamental infrastructure for commerce and data technology, so that they can build businesses and create value that can be shared among our ecosystem participants. Live @ Alibaba We strive to expand our products and services to become central to the everyday lives of our customers. 102 Years For a company that was founded in 1999, lasting at least 102 years means we will have spanned three centuries, an achievement that few companies can claim. Our culture, business models and systems are built to last, so that we can achieve sustainability in the long run.
ALIBABA GROUP WAS FOUNDED IN 1999 BY 18 PEOPLE LED BY JACK MA, a former English teacher from Hangzhou, China. Our founders started our company to champion small businesses, in the belief that the Internet would level the playing field by enabling small enterprises to leverage innovation and technology to grow and compete more effectively in the domestic and global economies.
OUR BUSINESSES We operate various businesses and also derive support for our ecosystem from the businesses and services of related and affiliated companies. Our major businesses and the businesses of our related companies include:
CULTURE AND VALUES THE ALIBABA CULTURE IS ABOUT CHAMPIONING SMALL BUSINESSES. We operate an ecosystem where all participants – consumers, merchants, third-party service providers and others – have an opportunity to prosper. OUR VALUES Our values are fundamental to the way we operate and how we recruit, evaluate and compensate our people. Our six values are:
SUSTAINABILITY We believe the best approach to corporate social responsibility is through embedding elements of social responsibility in our business model. Since our founding, we have been highly committed to sustainable corporate responsibility projects, both through charitable endeavors and by extending the benefits of our ecosystem to the community at large. Our major achievements and initiatives in the areas of corporate social responsibility include those described below:
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