據外媒報道,中國京東集團總裁劉強東(Richard Liu)已與澳大利亞上市a2牛奶公司以及澳最大葡萄酒生產商“葡萄酒寶庫莊園”(Treasury Wine Estate)合作,創建“澳大利亞購物中心”,面向中國快速增長的中產階層銷售真實可靠的澳大利亞產品。
據報道,劉強東表示,京東商城(JD.com)感興趣戰略性入股澳大利亞公司,以保證澳大利亞產品的質量和供應量。據推測京東正在考慮入股a2。劉強東現正在和美國乳制品巨頭迪恩食品公司一起參與競購a2牛奶公司。
部分原文報道如下:
Chinese billionaire Richard Liu, is hunting Australian companies to fuel the global expansion of his e-commerce website, JD.com, and take on Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma.
Mr Liu has partnered with ASX-listed companies including a2 Milk and Treasury Wine Estates to create an “Australian mall”, which will sell authentic Australian product to China's fast growing middle class.
JD.com, a Nasdaq-listed company with a market capitalisation of $US46 billion ($60 billion), is China's second biggest online retailer behind Mr Ma's Alibaba.
原文鏈接:<http://www.smh.com.au/business/jdcom-founder-richard-liu-taps-a2-milk-treasury-wine-to-rival-alibaba-20150629-gi0p98.html>
日期:2015-07-01