Ele.me "Double Hundred Plan" continues to up the ante instant e-commerce, partnering with 100 retail brands to achieve 100% growth
Just after the Double 11 battle in 2023, the new horn of instant e-commerce sounded again, and major brands ushered in new opportunities on this track.
On November 17th, the Ele.me Instant E-commerce Brand Merchant Conference was held in Shanghai. Facing the rapid outbreak of market demand in recent years and the increasing attention and investment of retail brands, Ele.me released a number of cutting-edge explorations in channel construction and capacity building on the platform at the meeting, and announced the launch of the "Double Hundred Plan" – which will join hands with 100 retail brands to achieve 100% growth in two years.
At the meeting, Ele.me chief operating officer Chen Weiye shared the theme. "Instant e-commerce is an important strategic choice for Ele.me." Chen Weiye said that for this new track, Ele.me will firmly, long-term and continuous investment, with the goal of "advancing with the ecosystem", and grow together with brand and retailer partners.
Shi Quan, vice president of Ele.me and head of the retail brand center, said that with the rapid development of the industry in the past three years, Ele.me has now partnered with nearly 500 brands in depth, successfully helping the brand achieve a monthly transaction volume of over 100 million, and created more than 10 billion single products together with the brand.
By providing brand partners with better product tools, data insights, marketing planning, and other system support, Ele.me hopes to enable brands to participate more deeply in real-time business, making the business process more controllable, stronger, and healthier.
(Photo) Ele.me chief operating officer Chen Weiye released the "Double Hundred Plan"
Strengthen the retail industry and promote brand growth in an "ecological" way
Standing at the forefront of a new round of retail revolution, instant e-commerce is becoming the most stable and imaginative growth channel for brands.
The "2023 Instant E-commerce Development White Paper" jointly released by the China Chamber of Commerce and Ele.me shows that in recent years, instant e-commerce has maintained double-digit growth in consecutive years, with an average compound growth rate of 65% in 2018-2022, and the market scale continues to expand to 500 billion yuan; in the first three quarters of 2023 alone, instant e-commerce grew by more than 40% year-on-year, significantly higher than the overall growth rate of O2O home (25%) and the total growth rate of online retail sales of physical goods (8.9%).
Combined with market data, in this year’s Double 11, Ele.me has also become a new frontier for retail brands to seek business breakthrough growth. In 2023, the number of merchants participating in Ele.me Double 11 increased by 50% year-on-year. In the single day of Double 11 alone, more than ten categories such as drinks, 3C digital, clothing, shoes and bags, and household appliances have doubled, and more than 90% of cooperative brands have broken through historical peaks. Nearly 100 brands have doubled their turnover compared with last year.
"Facing huge business development opportunities, Ele.me partners can see that instant e-commerce is an important strategic choice for Ele.me, and a track for our long-term, firm and continuous investment." Ele.me chief operating officer Chen Weiye said in his speech that even according to the most conservative estimates, instant e-commerce still has at least one trillion growth opportunities.
Facing the future, Ele.me will continue to firmly invest in the real-time e-commerce track in an "ecological" way, aggregating various ecological resources from the perspective of brand business management, and seeking common growth with brands.
At the conference, Ele.me announced the launch of the "Double Hundred Plan": by continuously helping brands expand new channels, continuously improve digital management capabilities and tools, and provide various ecological services – in the next two years, Ele.me will deeply partner with 100 retail brands to help brands achieve more than 100% business growth on Ele.me.
"I believe many brands can really feel that if far-field e-commerce is a red ocean that needs to fight for bayonets and various resources head-on, in the real-time e-commerce track, brands still have a lot of room to allocate four or two thousand gold, seize the layout with small investment, and leverage the growth dividend of the blue ocean market," Chen Weiye said.
(Photo) Ele.me awards awards to Yili, Mengniu, Unilever and other strategic partners
Focusing on four major channels and three major capacity building
At today’s conference, Chen Yanfeng, Vice President of Ele.me and Head of Retail Brand Center, made a system release for the industry based on the platform’s latest exploration and breakthroughs in channels and capabilities.
For example, for the brand’s long-term focus on large supermarket channels, Ele.me has provided brands with more professional business data tools, more efficient sales subsidy marketing tools, and more aggregated joint marketing models. These can help brands better understand business models, improve marketing subsidy efficiency, and connect brands with retailers and platforms. Joint marketing resources.
For small and medium-sized chains and retail stores, Ele.me is helping brands to accelerate the online supply of traditional channels, and through the "cloud chain" model, to achieve in-depth coordination and unified operation of offline, regional and store. In addition, through cross-border marketing of food zero, and combining platform characteristics and channels such as Sunshine Vegetable Market and Convenience Warehouse Store, Ele.me is also continuously providing brands with two new channel business additions.
(Photo) Chen Yanfeng, Vice President of Ele.me, shares the operation practice of Ele.me
In terms of digital management capacity building, Ele.me continuously explores and upgrades tools and products, and is committed to comprehensively helping brands improve their marketing capabilities, product synergy and consumer operation capabilities.
At the meeting, Ele.me officially released the "Star Cloud Disk 2.0" product. By upgrading the back-end products of this brand merchant, brand merchants can better realize business digitalization, product cultivation, promotion refinement and advertising number intelligence, and improve business management capabilities and efficiency in an all-round way. At the same time, through projects such as marketing matrix, food zero ecological alliance and blue sky plan, in response to the complex and changing business needs of brands, brands can now also cooperate more deeply with Ele.me to obtain differentiated marketing solutions.
"Consumer demand is evolving faster than we all imagined. Facing new market changes, we will continue to explore together with brands and ecosystems, continue to serve global users with better technological innovation capabilities, and work with partners to harvest more controllable, more powerful and more sustainable growth," Chen Yanfeng said.