Alibaba Group Holding, China’s biggest e-commerce company, had 124,320 full-time employees as of March 2025, nearly 80,000 fewer than the previous year. The decrease in the number of employees was mainly a result of the sale of Sun Art. Alibaba is the second most valuable internet company listed in China and among the largest in terms of revenue. What is Alibaba Group? The company was founded in Hangzhou, China, in 1999 by a group of people led by a former English teacher, Jack Ma. It started as an online platform helping small Chinese businesses to reach global buyers. Alibaba Group went public in September 2014 and broke all records with a total IPO of 25 billion U.S. dollars. Today, the company operates a number of e-commerce, retail, internet service, and fintech-related businesses all around the world. It is best known for its Alibaba.com B2B e-commerce platform (including 1688.com and AliExpress.com segments), C2C marketplace Taobao, B2C online retail platform Tmall, and online payment platform Alipay. Who are Alibaba’s employees? As of the beginning of 2020, Alibaba had more employees than Yahoo and Facebook combined. The majority of them were based in China. As of 2019, over one-third of Alibaba’s senior management were female, and around 45 percent of all staff were under 30 years old. In 2023, Eddie Wu, who is one of the co-founders of the company, replaced Daniel Zhang in the role of Alibaba's CEO and executive chairman. Every year on May 10, Alibaba Group celebrates Employee Appreciation Day. All employees, also called Aliren, bring their families to the company campus for an all-day carnival.

In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, the Chinese e-commerce corporation Alibaba Group recorded a revenue of around 449.8 billion yuan in Chinese online sales. This translates to approximately 62 billion U.S. dollars. China's e-commerce market and AlibabaIn 2024, the gross merchandise volume of China's e-commerce market amounted to around 15.5 trillion yuan and was expected to grow further in the coming years. Some of the factors contributing to this growth are increased internet penetration and the ever-growing spending power of the general population, but also the expansion of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The revenue of Alibaba Group reached 996 billion yuan (approximately 137 billion U.S. dollars) in the financial year 2025. Alibaba’s most prominent e-commerce websites include Taobao Marketplace, Tmall, cross-border e-commerce platforms AliExpress and Kaola.com, a developer of platforms for cloud computing and data management called Alibaba Cloud, as well as O2O fresh food service Freshippo. Its payment provider, Ant Group, formerly known as Alipay or Ant Financial, was spun off in 2014 into an independent company. Singles' DayThe company’s most profitable day in the year is Singles' Day, a popular Chinese festival functioning like the antithesis of Valentine’s Day. On November 11, Chinese singles throughout the country celebrate being single and proud, especially by treating themselves with presents. During the Singles' Day sales in 2021, Alibaba's online retail platforms recorded a total GMV amounting to more than 84.5 billion U.S. dollars.

In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, the Chinese e-commerce corporation Alibaba Group reported a consolidated annual revenue of around 996 billion yuan. The largest share of the revenue, 43 percent, came from the domestic e-commerce retail segment.   Alibaba Group   Founded in 1999, today Alibaba Group is the leading e-commerce provider in China, offering a wide range of B2B, B2C, and C2C services. The company also offers cloud computing, digital entertainment (such as online video platform Youku Tudou), and mobile payment services. As of the beginning of 2023, Alibaba had nearly a billion of annual active consumers on its online shopping marketplaces in China. Alibaba’s e-commerce retail Domestic e-commerce retail on the company’s online shopping platforms, such as Taobao and Tmall, generated a total revenue of more than 425.5 billion yuan in 2025, around 11 billion yuan more than in the previous year. Direct sales increased the most, primarily due to strong sales driven by consumer electronics and appliances.International e-commerce retail accounted for only 11 percent of Alibaba’s revenue; however, the segment revenue grew by 33 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year. This was the result of combined order growth, large revenue contribution from AliExpress’ Choice, as well as improvements in monetization.