transcosmos Reinforces a Global E-Commerce One-Stop Services in China by Partnering with Shopex, with Its Experience of Implementing E-Commerce Solution Systems for Approximately 1.5 Million Companies in China

transcosmos inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; President and COO: Masataka Okuda; TSE First Section: 9715; hereafter, transcosmos) has partially acquired outstanding shares of Shopex Software (Headquarters: Shanghai, China; CEO: Lee Zhong Wei; hereafter, Shopex)’s holding company and reached an agreement to tie a capital and business partnership with Shopex.

Shopex is a leading E-Commerce company in China which develops and sells solutions and systems for computers, mobile, and O2O. Since its establishment in 2004, it has experienced implementation of approximately 1.5million electronic solutions and systems and has a top-class share in E-Commerce store front systems.

transcosmos will be collaborating with Shopex in a wide array of businesses such as jointly developing an E-Commerce system for the Chinese market with Shopex as a partner to boost “Global E-Commerce One-Stop Services” promoted by transcosmos.

Comment by Mr. Lee Zhong Wei, CEO of Shopex

“Along with development of new technology such as big data, cloud computing, mobile and O2O, an E-Commerce business era has come where technology and consumers are the cardinal players. Technology is really the leading force for the second generation of E-Commerce. Shopex believes that, through capital and business partnership with transcosmos, we will be able to bring to reality a win-win union where each other’s advantages can be enhanced; and by providing more convenient and effective E-Commerce total solutions and services, E-Commerce business in China will further prosper.”

Comments by Mr. Masataka Okuda, President and COO, transcosmos

“The growth rate of China’s E-Commerce market is 39.4%, and the market has already reached ¥30.3 trillion (1.84 trillion Yuan) scale. Through our capital and business alliance with Shopex, we will be able to largely expand our range of service provided for E-Commerce software development and implementation solutions in the Chinese market, with a service system set up to accommodate every detailed need of our corporate clients. Our company will continue to expand our global E-Commerce one-stop services to support our corporate clients’ global E-Commerce development.”

Solutions provided by Shopex

In addition to “TMALL,” China’s largest E-Commerce mall with whom transcosmos has strategic business alliance, and capital and business alliance with such companies as FineEX, a large E-Commerce fulfillment and distribution company, and Tensyn Interactive, a large online advertising company, through this alliance with Shopex, our global E-Commerce one-stop services in China would be strengthened so that we would be able to support not only our Chinese corporate clients but also Japanese and other foreign corporate clients who enter the E-Commerce business market in China.

transcosmos’s global E-Commerce one-stop services in China

* transcosmos is a registered trade name or trademark of transcosmos inc. in Japan and other countries.

* Other company names and product or service names mentioned are registered trade names or trademarks of various other companies.

About transcosmos inc.

transcosmos launched operations in 1966. Since then it has combined superior “human resources” with the most up-to-date “technological” capabilities to enhance the competitive strength of its corporate clients by providing them with high value added and superior services. It provides overall IT outsourcing services such as Contact Center Services, Business Process Outsourcing Services, and Digital Marketing Services either as standalone solution or as combined services to its corporate clients to optimize their marketing efficiencies, to expand sales and gain new customers in E-Commerce business, and to improve operational efficiency and reduce clients operational cost for back office and information system operations. Further, these services have been expanded beyond Japan, globally, centered in Asia. transcosmos aims to be the “Global IT Partner” of its corporate clients to provide them with high quality outsourcing services on a global scale.