SHANGHAI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Alibaba Group ( BABA ) will
integrate all of its e-commerce platforms into a single business
unit to be called the Alibaba E-commerce Business Group, it said
in a stock exchange filing on Thursday.
It marks the first time the group's domestic Chinese
e-commerce group and its international e-commerce platforms will
be integrated.
The new group brings together the Taobao and Tmall Group and
the Alibaba International Digital Commerce (AIDC) Group - which
operated platforms including cross-border player AliExpress and
wholesale B2B site Alibaba.com, in addition to second-hand
platform Xianyu.
AIDC chief Jiang Fan, a former head of Tmall who was demoted
in 2020 following an online scandal, has been tapped to lead the
new unit. He will report to Alibaba Group ( BABA ) CEO Eddie Wu.