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Chamber, Alibaba.com Collaborate for New Online Trade Resource AmCham Shanghai announced a partnership with Alibaba.com (www. alibaba.com), the leading global e-commerce platform for small businesses, to provide Alibaba.com’s tens of millions of registered users with access to market information and business resources from AmCham Shanghai. The two parties signed an official partnership agreement in a ceremony at AmCham Shanghai’s office on Friday, January 24, with the goal of facilitating trade between the U.S. and China, as well as enhancing access to AmCham Shanghai’s information resources for small- and medium-sized businesses that rely on Alibaba.com’s platform.
AmCham Shanghai President Kenneth Jarrett, left, and Vincent Wong, senior director of buyer service & development at Alibaba.com, sign a partnership agreement at AmCham Shanghai’s office on January 24
Under the terms of the agreement, Alibaba.com has created a special section on its website (http://news.alibaba.com/specials/partnerAmChamSH.html?tracelog=AmchamSH-BC) to provide access to resources from AmCham Shanghai, including exclusive market research, white papers and articles from the Chamber’s monthly business magazine Insight. Economic research reports, white papers and trade guides from AmCham Shanghai’s virtual SME Center will also be made available directly to Alibaba.com’s global audience. In return, AmCham Shanghai’s members and qualified subscribers will receive priority access to Alibaba.com programs such as its Verified Member service, and Alibaba.com will leverage its extensive online SME database to help build awareness of AmCham Shanghai’s SME Center (http://sme.amcham-shanghai.org). Presiding at the signing ceremony were AmCham Shanghai President Kenneth Jarrett and Vincent Wong, senior director of buyer service & development at Alibaba.com. Jarrett and Wong were joined by Scott Williams, vice president of programs and services at AmCham Shanghai, Webber Wang, business development manager from Alibaba.com’s international community buyer unit, and Patil Bhushan Arun, director of site operations at Alibaba.com’s global supplier development unit. Commenting on the cooperation with Alibaba.com, Jarrett said: “With this new cooperation we are combining and leveraging the strengths of the respective organizations. Alibaba.com is a powerful engine that can help millions of people gain access to the information and tools available at AmCham Shanghai’s SME Center through this new web resource.” Wong noted that AmCham Shanghai members will receive substantial benefits under the terms of the new agreement. “Alibaba.com is the largest business-to-business e-commerce platform in the world focused on SMEs. We have a strong network around the world, especially in China. AmCham Shanghai members can make use of our platform to obtain information on China and gain a very big market exposure from our platform to get more business opportunities,” Wong said. Williams commented: “The SME Center and Alibaba.com are fueled to efficiently support SME growth and help enterprises succeed in these markets. The Alibaba.com relationship further expands the value of joining AmCham Shanghai and subscribing to the SME Center. We highly value the arrangement with Alibaba.com which supports small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as large organizations looking to streamline right buyer and seller search efforts.”
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