Alibaba Launches 11.11 Global Shopping Festival 2017 in Malaysia

Wootz... time to shop till you drop!
The festival of all festivals, Alibaba Group kicks off it's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, a 24-hour global shopping festival in Malaysia. Apart from offering over 15 million products across a wide range of categories from 140,000 brands for this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, it is also set to draw attention of the world with a showcase of “new retail” experiences.

The 11.11 Global Shopping Festival was introduced with the aim of catering to the rising popularity of online shopping, which has grown to become the ‘Festival of all Festivals’, the most anticipated shopping festival globally. With a wide range of products ranging from fashion and accessories, to home and living items and more, Malaysians will be spoilt for choice. The shopping festival will run from 00:00 midnighton 11 November for 24 hours on the flagship Tmall and Taobao marketplaces.

Malaysians will be able to enjoy attractive promotions such as:-

• International shipping starting from RM0!

• Cashback offers! Shoppers who pay by Malaysia E-banking will enjoy RM30 cashback with minimum spend of RM300 on Taobao.

• Enjoy RMB50 (≈RM33) off on already low-priced sea freight services with a minimum spend of RMB299 (≈RM200)on Taobao. 

The 11.11 Global Shopping Festival started off as ‘Single’s Day’ by Alibaba in 2009 and has evolved to become the “Festival of all Festivals” – the world’s biggest shopping sales event. This year’s Festival will also be the first time that the world will witness how Alibaba aims to transform traditional retail through technology and consumer insights in all aspects of the Festival. For example, in China,consumers can visit pop-up cosmetics stores to experience an augmented reality (AR) lipstick trial. Selected partnering stores will also feature facial recognition payment and scan-and-deliver Online to Offline (O2O) shopping.

The Malaysian launch was graced with the presence of radio announcer and YouTuber, Jinnyboy, social fashion icon and influencer, Jane Chuck as well as Miss Astro Chinese International Pageant 2016 & Miss Chinese International 2017’s 1st Runner Up, Serene Lim, who shared their excitement for the upcoming festivities. They were joined by other distinguished Malaysian social media figures and members of the media.  

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11.11, don’t forget to save the date and share this significant date with your loved ones, family and friends to spread the happiness and shop till you drop! To participate in the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, kindly visit https://world.taobao.com or Mobile Taobao app. 

For more details about the 11.11 promotional offers, please visit 1111.tmall.com.