This Week In E-Commerce - iHerb's Global Expansion Drives $2.4B Sales Milestone

In 2024, the e-commerce industry witnessed significant developments, highlighted by iHerb's remarkable achievement of surpassing $2.4 billion in net sales. As an online retailer for health and wellness products, iHerb fulfilled 37 million orders across 180 countries, demonstrating strong customer demand and market presence. The company's strategic initiatives, including an expanded product portfolio and enhanced global reach through investments in culturally diverse products and multiple digital marketplaces, contributed to this growth. Additionally, operational improvements such as reduced shipping times and costs have bolstered iHerb's service capabilities, enabling it to offer free shipping in numerous regions.

Elsewhere in the market, Synagistics (SEHK:2562) was trading firmly up 30.5% and closing at HK$30.60. This week, the company announced a joint venture to launch Geene, an AI platform integrating multiple AI models with blockchain for enhanced enterprise intelligence. Meanwhile, Nice One Beauty Digital Marketing (SASE:4193) lagged, down 9.9% to end the day at SAR48.10.

Alibaba's strategic investments in AI and cloud infrastructure aim to boost growth. Click here to explore the detailed narrative on Alibaba's potential.

Take a look at our Market Insights article titled "Which Markets Will Sink Or Swim In 2025," where we discussed the potential growth of E-commerce platforms and online retailers benefitting from government subsidy programs in China, highlighting a key investment theme for the upcoming year.

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  • Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) closed at $141.03 up 8.6%, not far from its 52-week high.
  • Amazon.com (NasdaqGS:AMZN) settled at $208.36 up 2.2%. The company announced on March 5, just yesterday, that its "Buy with Prime" offering is now fully available for products on Gabb.com, enhancing customer experience and shopping convenience for Prime members.
  • Adobe (NasdaqGS:ADBE) settled at $451.24 up 1.2%. On Wednesday, TransPerfect announced a new GlobalLink integration for Adobe Journey Optimizer, enhancing translation management capabilities.

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The durable premium you describe does not really exist for crude in a liquid market. This scenario, in almost a similar form, is happening thrice this year.

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Persistent volatility raises the hurdle rate on every long-lived energy investment, which suppresses the supply response that would eventually fix the problem. The instability is self-perpetuating in a way the price level is not.

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Hello,(I am a shareholder).I spent the summer investigating in whatever I was able to find in the press, the trustee, or legal, and comparing it to FS Benner's declaration/transcripts:press: MM has a tendancy to use facts, modify them and turn them the way they want: 100% of their claims against TPG0 is traçable factually, 80% is flawed and interpreted. Example are numerous: 11M loans banks to be paid seems right, but it has not been an issue at all, it has been paid in full. (and it happens all the time in every business...); the previous HR becoming a financial director in the article herself being attacked by TPG on the legal side; the wrong address of curator (if truly announced by TPG).Trustee: according to my research (which can be incomplete) no communication to the Nordic trustee (hereby, bond holders) has been done on a, indebtedness (late payment) > 1M€, which is their obligation by contract (clause 14.d - https://corporate.the-platform-group.com/bond/) => this is a sign of a huge lie and fraud, or the sign that there is no indebtedness > 1M€ over the whole TPG group.Legal: still awaiting for an answer, probable that I won't get it.VALUATIONYou can spent hours working the fundamentals, if they're flawed...the thesis falls.Anyway, I always substracts the badwill (that I consider non-current - you have it in the CFS) & non-controlling interests from my valuation:Earnings ~22MFCF ~40M€The financial statements are not the issue here, we are more on an cheap option on the sincerity of the accounts that a real valuation. Unfortunately, these are unverifiable elements, hence the low price./!\ Careful:the accounts are consolidated and skip the subsidiaries issues...Careful with the business model: TPG0 is a financial holding that acquire subsidiaries, hold the debt, and has no operations. 100% of the Cash Flow comes from subs' dividends => it is a risk here, more a plumber risk than an operational one, but nevertheless...The auditor is too small, and managed by the same firm than before, with 140K€/year commission => it's too low, nobody external really reviewed what Benner and his team are doing internallycapital increase do not go through the CFS, but through change in equity AND equity in the BSIf the equity stays low too long, the WACC increase will be unbearable (I have a 30% global, with a 118% on equity): diluting is expensive => TPG machine can stay broken for a while.Most of the people I talk with never saw this, while this is ESSENTIAL to Benner's business model.SEVERAL EVENTS THAT COULD CHANGE:AEP is being audited by KPMG: if Benner plays the "we will propose KPMG to our shareholders BEOY", this can increase the trust in him significantly/KPMG (or other) to validate the 2026 IFRS accounts & having a word on HGB's: though still consolidated, at least we'll know...AEP being eventually acquired: while it carries a high integration risk due to its size, they talked about it so many times, that trust goes with it.Without this combination of event, the equity is doomed to stay at this level, IMO.Do not forget to also follow the bond: with TPG's announced safe harbor plan for buyback (25% of daily exchange), it is also interesting to check this illiquid and retail market: https://live.deutsche-boerse.com/bond/no0013256834-the-platform-group-ag-8-875-24-28?mic=XFRA

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