Hong Kong, Sep 6 - The world's most-visited online B2B marketplace Alibaba.com has reached thousands of Turkish small and medium enterprises in alliance with Kobiline, Turkey's leading e-business platform.

Alibaba.com, being the e-commerce platform of millions of enterprises from more than 200 countries, is now serving opportunities to Turkish SMEs who want to extend their global reach. Kobiline members will be able to access the millions of trade leads in Alibaba.com through the co-branded http://alibaba.kobiline.com site.




Ms Cathy Zhang, Vice President of Alibaba.com announced the opening of the partner website on the Bilisim CEBIT Eurasia '02 in Istanbul, Turkey, and Mr. Jack Ma, Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba.com, also gave a keynote speech in the Bilisim Summit'02 conferences on September 05, 2002.


Titled "Lessons for Turkey: What has China learned from B2B?", Jack's speech received attention and applause from exhibition attendees, and in particular, Alibaba's 8000+ existing Turkish members.


Alibaba's strategic move into Turkey also attracted the attention from local media. The country's largest newspaper H¨¹rriyet had an interview with Jack Ma.




About Alibaba

Alibaba.com is the world's most-visited online B2B marketplace for global trade and is a leading provider of online marketing services for importers and exporters. Alibaba's web properties have over 1,300,000 registered members from more than 200 countries. Alibaba.com was named "Best of the Web: B2B" by Forbes magazine and selected as the most popular B2B website by readers of the Far Eastern Economic Review.

About Kobiline

Kobiline is the leading e-business platform Turkey that aims to pioneer small-medium enteprises (SME) adoption to the information age and leverage their economic potential through electronic business.

Kobiline serves content and services that contribute to the profitability of enterprises by decreasing costs, increasing revenues and enabling faster access to information. This dynamic platform where one can realize all business-related tasks from a single source, is also the first portal that introduces Application Service Provider (ASP) and distance learning services to the Turkish market.


Since its establishment in June 2001, Kobiline has been the basic reference point and one-stop-shop for more than 20 thousand Turkish SMEs and entrepreneurs. The platform is supported by Strategic Partners, namely Koç.net, Microsoft Turkey, Koçbank, Dünya Gazetesi, Andersen, Koç Bryce, Logo Business Solutions and HP Turkey, who are experienced in different fields such as web services, e-commerce, online banking, consulting and IT. Kobiline has been awarded as the "Top 3 Successful Companies in the Internet Sector" by Dunya Gazetesi, the "Top 3 Best B2B" by Alt?n Orumcek and the "Top 3 Best SME Development Project of the Year" by Microsoft.