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Q&A: Alibaba’s Roland Palmer on Brexit and what UK retail can learn from China

By 3 May 2023

Alibaba's UK general manager Roland Palmer

Alibaba’s UK general manager Roland Palmer speaks to Retail Week about how the marketplace giant is making a name for itself in the country despite challenges from Brexit, and where UK businesses can follow China’s example

Since launching internationally, Alibaba has become the world’s largest business marketplace, yet is still perhaps best known in its native China.

Retail Week gets to know the global marketplace that has been taking China by storm since 1999 and is now making a name for itself in the UK by giving British businesses a platform to export to other markets.

 

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