The Chinese online store
AliExpress together with the Skolkovo Foundation will hold a competition among Russian startups in the field of microelectronics. They will compete in two categories: “B2C idea” and “B2C ready-made solution”. The winners will be assisted in the markets of the USA and Western Europe.
“We will help these projects find a buyer. In addition, promotions will be organized for the winners on the global AliExpress website, ”said Mark Zavadsky, Director of Business Development for AliExpress in Russia and the CIS.
In addition, AliExpress will provide a winner in the first category with a factory in China for the project. However, the company does not plan to pay financial premiums,
reports Prime agency. The beginning of the
competition is scheduled for June 18th. And it will end in late November.
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Yesterday, June 2, Megamind
wrote that the
Alibaba Group opens a representative office in Russia. Its online store AliExpress is the most popular online retailer in our country. Every month it is visited by 15.6 million Russian buyers. This is several times more than the number of Russians visiting
eBay and
Amazon .
Director of Business Development for AliExpress in Russia and the CIS, Mark Zavadsky is now also the CEO of Alibaba in Russia.
On April 13, AliExpress leadership
met with representatives of Roskomnadzor. The meeting discussed the transfer of personal data of Russian employees of the company from China to Russia.
“We are considering the possibility of creating a representative office in Russia in order to further support the growth of our business and our Russian partners, as well as to facilitate interaction with the state authorities of the Russian Federation,” Mark Zavadsky noted.