The international business publication The Financial Times published the news that the public company Alibaba Group of China, experienced e-commerce giant, plans to become the owner of an investment holding company Intime Retail, bought its controlling stake at a price of more than two and a half billion dollars.
Intime Retail owns 29 shops and 17 shopping centers in major Chinese cities. Currently, 27,8% Intime operator shares are owned by Alibaba Group, which it bought in March 2014. Directly founder Intime Shen Guo Jun owns 9.2% of shares. The price that Alibaba is willing to offer for Intime shares exceeds the value of 42.3% at the time of completion of the public auction December 28, 2016. Having concluded an agreement, Alibaba will have approximately 74% of the company.
According to experts, Alibaba Group intends to eliminate all obstacles between the trade online and offline stores through the use of big data technology.
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The American company Pfizer and the German BioNTech announced that their vaccine against COVID-19 is 91.3% effective for at least six months after the second dose of the drug. “Pfizer and BioNTech today announced updated results of an analysis of 927 confirmed symptoms of COVID-19, which were monitored in a key third phase of the […]
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