www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Business / Technology

Alibaba turns to ele.me for the perfect meal

By Meng Jing (China Daily) Updated: 2015-12-26 08:00

Alibaba turns to ele.me for the perfect meal
A deliveryman of ele.me, which can be directly translated into "Hungry?" [Photo/China Daily]

After pouring billions of dollars into a wide cross section of industries, e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has developed a hunger for online food delivery services.

The Hangzhou-based Alibaba plans to invest $1.25 billion in food delivery application ele.me, said a report published in leading business news site caixin.com on Friday.

The report citing anonymous sources said that Alibaba will obtain a 27.7 percent stake in ele.me, becoming the Shanghai-based app's biggest shareholder.

Ele.me, which can be directly translated into "Hungry?", is expected to help Alibaba gain a stronger foothold in China's booming online-to-offline market, especially when it comes to the fight in the food delivery sector against Internet giants Tencent Holdings Ltd and Baidu Inc.

Alibaba, which initially invested in Meituan, an online coupon site with food delivery business, has seen its stake in the company drop to a single digit after Meituan merged with its former competitor Dianping in October.

"Alibaba always makes investment to take control. It makes a lot of sense for it to invest in ele.me," said Lu Zhenwang, an Internet expert and the chief executive officer of the Shanghai-based Wanqing Consultancy.

He said the O2O food sector has become the latest battlefield for China's Internet trio. "Baidu is equipped with online food coupon site Nuomi and delivery app Baidu Takeout. Tencent can offer similar services via the newly merged Meituan and Dianping-online coupon and restaurant review apps, and Meituan Takeout,"

"With the latest investment, Alibaba has online food coupon site Koubei and food delivery app ele.me, " he said.

Ele.me, which was launched in 2009, ranked the second in October in terms of the number of users among all the door-to-door online-to-offline apps, which include services like car-hailing, food delivery and house cleaning.

In the report released by TalkingData, a third-party app research company, Tencent-backed Meituan Takeout ranked the third and Baidu Takeout ranked sixth.

China's food delivery app market has seen rapid growth since late 2014 with service providers offering massive discounts to lure users. The cutthroat subsidy competition has burned billions of yuan from players.

"With Alibaba's investment, ele.me will have more cash to compete. But I doubt a cash-burning competition is a sustainable way for growth," said Lu.

However, Internet giants are still betting on the sector's growth potential. A recent report from iResearch Consultancy Group showed that apps only accounted for 6 percent of China's 160 billion yuan ($24.7 billion) food takeout market in 2014.

Sometimes, when it is difficult to foresee the future trends, it makes more sense to make friends with investments.

Pony Ma Huateng, chief executive officer of Tencent, said during the World Internet Conference in mid-December, that Internet companies are mushrooming in several verticals, such as healthcare, education and tourism.

Hot Topics

Editor's Picks
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 欧美ⅹxxxx视频 | 国产高清在线精品一区二区三区 | 久久夜色邦福利网 | 真实的国产乱xxxx | 国产精品黄色 | 91高清免费国产自产 | 草草免费观看视频在线 | 日本欧美韩国一区二区三区 | 日韩欧美国产成人 | 成人高清无遮挡免费视频软件 | 久久久久9999 | 久久久久国产精品免费 | 大片国产片日本观看免费视频 | 国产精品视频永久免费播放 | 欧美成人tv在线观看免费 | 色老头一区二区三区在线观看 | 午夜在线成人 | 一级毛片免费播放视频 | 99精品免费观看 | 久久精品中文字幕不卡一二区 | 中文偷拍视频在线观看 | 久久99视频免费 | 国产大臿蕉香蕉大视频女 | 日本加勒比高清一本大道 | 久久久久久免费播放一级毛片 | a级片免费观看 | 天天躁夜夜躁狠狠躁2024 | 久久精品免看国产成 | 亚洲精品日本高清中文字幕 | 一级毛片无毒不卡直接观看 | 成人午夜 | 韩国精品一区视频在线播放 | 午夜在线播放免费人成无 | 国产精品二区三区 | 久久精品国产欧美日韩99热 | 欧美视频自拍偷拍 | 久在线视频| 最近韩国日本免费免费版 | 亚洲视频在线免费观看 | 欧美成人在线网站 | 日韩午夜视频在线观看 |