About DHgate.com
DHgate.com is a B2B E-Commerce website serving Chinese sellers and global buyers since 2004. It provides clients with world class standards of China wholesale product sourcing, payment, tracking and delivery services to over 20000 small businesses worldwide every week.
Let’s take a look at the homepage of this PayPal’s largest client in the Asia-Pacific region:
Want to compare with Alibaba’s homepage? Please see wholesale review on Alibaba.
Since its founding, DHgate has been seeking a different way of operating mode from Alibaba, that is SME B2B. SME means Small and Medium Enterprises. Under the circumstances of Alibaba’s domination in big-enterprise B2B field, DHgate is dedicated to serving small and medium enterprises, and becomes to the global leader in SME B2B filed in three years.
Now let’s see the three big differences between DHgate and Alibaba:
Sellers Buyers Scale
DHgate Chinese Global B2B (SEM)
Alibaba Global Global B2B (Big + SME)
From this comparison, we could see that, just like many businessmen review, DHgate owes its success to foresighted market subdivision.
On March 24th, 2010, DHgate.com and Warburg Pincus jointly announced that the site has received about RMB 200 million in a third-round investment led by Warburg Pincus.
