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| Company type | Public |
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| NYSE: VIPS | |
| Industry | E-commerce |
| Founded | December 2008 |
| Founders | Eric Ya Shen, Arthur Xiaobo Hong |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Mainland China |
| Owner | Vipshop Holdings Ltd |
Vipshop (Chinese: 唯品会; pinyin: Wei Pin Hui) is a Chinese company that operates the e-commerce website VIP.com (formerly Vipshop.com) specializing in online discount sales. Vipshop is based out of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, and was listed on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 23, 2012.[1][2] As of 2017, Vipshop had 52.1 million customers, and there were 269.8 million orders for the year 2016.[3] Following Tmall and JD.com, it is now the third largest e-commerce site in China.
According to the US Fortune magazine, VIP.com ranked the 115th in its 2017 China 500 listing as well as the top 3 B2C e-commerce retailer. The 2017 Top 250 Global Powers of Retailing co-authored by Deloitte and STORES Media listed VIP.com as the world’s fastest growing retailer. And in BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands 2017, VIP.com ranked 40th.[4]
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- ^ "BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands 2017" (PDF).