U. S. eBay in online acquisitions re-entry business in Japan

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There is a news from Japan popular online news media that, Ebay of e-commerce (EC) announced on July 27 that it agreed to acquire the Japanese business from Geosys corporation operating Singapore's Internet mail order site. Geosys buys assets of the online mail order site "Qoo 10 (sustain)" developed in Japan. By acquiring eBay will re-enter the EC business in Japan. Competition in Japan's online mail order market is likely to intensify further.

Ebay's Chief Executive Officer Debien Winish said in an interview with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, "We want to build a foundation by acquiring the rapidly expanding Qatten Japanese business and also to expand business in Asia." It was. "Japan's EC market size is the third largest in the world but the EC penetration rate is still low and there is much room for expansion. "

But it did not announce the purchase amount, it is estimated to be the US $ 700 million according to the US media estimate. Following regulatory approval, the acquisition procedure will be completed by the end of June 2018.

Japan's Kuuten handles home appliances, electronic tickets, etc., about 2 million users mainly in the young generation. It is said that the use of enterprises that want to handle transboundary ECs is increasing if they exhibit in Japan and have functions automatically listed on overseas sites.

Geosys also invest in eBay Inc. and develops mail-order sites in six countries and regions in Asia such as Japan, China, Indonesia and so on.

eBay has grown rapidly as a new auction site, but now we have purchased at a fixed price has reached nearly 90%, and it is used as a normal EC site. In 1999, he entered the auction site in Japan but withdrew in 2002 following a sluggish performance. Since then, we have been developing a cross-border EC support business for Japanese companies who want to sell products to overseas consumers in Japan.

What is the biggest project for us corporations that want to go into the Japan marketplace?

When I used to beat Expedia round 10 years in the past, the journey industry in Japan was completely distinct from us. Airways couldn’t promote aircraft tickets at once to clients, and railway corporations couldn’t sell educate tickets immediately either. There have been three or four big travel businesses that had more than 50 years of records at the time they advanced a variety of law to be able to manipulate the tour enterprise.

Expedia becomes a web platform wherein human beings should make inn reservations and purchase plane tickets on the net, so the user interface on the patron facet become surely properly. Customers didn’t want to visit a travel organization or store on the town to e-book their journeys. The problem became that the expenses had been nearly the identical, or travel agencies had been absolutely a whole lot cheaper due to heavy law.

The net is lots less difficult to work with today and is an obvious place to start an enterprise, however in the past, it turned into tough to convince people to exchange their methods.

To resolve this, we talked to many fundamental tour organizations, airways, and railway agencies to provide an explanation for that the consumer enjoys booking tickets or trips on the net – that that is the brand new revel in that human beings want.

The Japanese journey groups can also benefit from this internet revolution due to the fact they can help human beings reserve tickets and motels online. We (as Expedia) shook palms with many hotels and airlines and explained to them that the net is where the future is. These days, online journey corporations are larger than their conventional offline counterparts.

Many other competitors have emerged, along with Rakuten tour and yahoo journey, but Expedia was the primary to trigger the destruction inside the conventional conservative global of a tour in Japan. After two or 3 years of breaking into the industry, many low-fee airlines regarded and these days, all people can locate cheaper tickets on online journey agencies.

The internet is a lot easier to work with these days and is an apparent location to start a commercial enterprise, but in the past, it was hard to convince humans to change their methods. America market ten years ago was a long way extra superior on the net.