Feb 28, 2005

New York, USA - On Feb 25, 2005, more than 70 companies involved in import and export gathered at The Williams Club in New York city to attend the seminar "Sourcing from China – Online or Off?" organized by the National Association of Export Companies (NEXCO).

Two panel speakers, Annie Jie Xu, Director of Marketing & Business Development at Alibaba.com and Anthony Boas, Partner at The Janssen Boas Company, along with the Moderator Ken Nadler, Vice President of Sterling National Bank spoke to the audience about available online and offline tools, the challenges and lowering costs for U.S. businesses when sourcing from China. Other topics such as how to select factories, quality control, inspection, logistics coordination and payment safety in China were also covered during the two and a half hour seminar.

In Annie Jie Xu's presentation, Annie described how Alibaba.com's online marketplace, products and services could help shorten the sourcing cycle and overcome current online trust concerns.

At the seminar, many of the attendees were already Alibaba members. Among them, Diana De Avila from DCF Enterprises LLC signed up as an Alibaba TrustPass member months ago and has since found a growing number of buyers through Alibaba for her bracelets. Like Diana, many other attendees shared their success stories and described how Alibaba helped them build and develop their businesses in order to compete with larger corporations in the same industries.

About NEXCO

NEXCO is an international trade association that sponsors monthly seminars that provide pertinent and timely information to importers, exporters, freight forwarders, bankers, attorneys, accountants, and any other professional engaged in global trade. NEXCO members have interests in insurance, international banking, freight forwarding, trade law, customs brokerage, trade software and e-commerce. They are large and small, American, foreign and multinational. Serving the international business community in New York City since 1963, NEXCO specializes in low cost technical seminars that take the mystery out of trade.


Sourcing from China: Online or Offline
Download Part 1 - Presented by Annie Xu, Alibaba.com
Download Part 2 - Presented by Anthony Boas, Partner, The Janssen Boas Company