About ALIBABA Co ltd and its ipo

2. About the company..
 Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a privately
owned Hangzhou-based group of Internet-based e-commerce
businesses including business-to-business
online web portals, online retail and
payment services, a shopping search engine and
data-centric cloud computing services.
 The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the
web site Alibaba.com. Alibaba's consumer-to-consumer
portal Taobao , similar to eBay, features
nearly a billion products and is one of the 20 most-visited
websites globally.
 Alipay, an online payment service, accounts for
roughly half of all online payment transactions within
China. The vast majority of these payments occur
using Alibaba services.

3. Affiliated companies
 Alibaba.com
 Taobao
 Tmall.com
 Juhuasuan
 e Tao
 Alipay
 Aliexpress
 China Yahoo!
 11 Main

4. Alibaba’s IPO
 The company in September 2013 was
seeking an initial public offering in the United
States after a deal could not be reached with
Hong Kong regulators.
 Planning took 12 months with the IPO finally
planned to hit the New York market in 18th
September 2014. The ticker was allocated as
BABA, while the raising was expected to be
$20 billion.

5. • At the top end of expectations, the
Alibaba IPO would raise $21.1 billion,
topping Facebook Inc's $16 billion listing in
2012 as the largest-ever technology IPO.
 Alibaba, could set a new record for the
world's biggest IPO if underwriters exercise
an option to sell additional shares to meet
demand - putting it as high as $24.3 billion,
and overtaking Agricultural Bank of China
Ltd's $22.1 billion listing in 2010.

6.  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has received
enough orders for its record-breaking initial
public offering to cover the entire deal within
just two days of its launch, people familiar with
the IPO process said on Wednesday.
 There was no indication as to where most of
that demand was in the $60-$66 per share
indicative range for the IPO.

7.  Demand for Alibaba's coming initial public
offering is so oversubscribed that bankers are
expected to close the books to investors in a
matter of days, sources told CNBC on Friday.
 Orders for the hotly-awaited $21.1 billion
IPO—expected to be the largest in history—
will close for U.S.-based investors on
Tuesday, sources say, with international
investors getting their final chance on
Wednesday.

8.  Appetite for Alibaba shares is expected to
push the offering price above the current
expected range of $60 to $66. A whopping 40
large institutions have requested orders over
$1 billion, while "friends and family" will
comprise about $1.5 billion.