It is reported that Gaoxin Retail announced yesterday that Taobao China made a mandatory unconditional comprehensive offer in cash to acquire all the issued shares of Gaoxin Retail at an offer price of HK$ 6.5 per share. According to the announcement, Alibaba Zetai entered into a business cooperation agreement with the company and its subsidiaries Auchan China and China RT Mart on February 7th, 65438.
According to the announcement, Gaoxin Retail Group and Alibaba Zetai themselves will urge their affiliated companies to cooperate and adopt the "Taobao House" model in the stores of Gaoxin Retail Group and its affiliated companies, including the business model and the right to use the online platform; Share data; Integrated system and POS hardware; And delivery service.
A few days ago, Zhang Yong, CEO of Alibaba, publicly stated that Alibaba's strategy is to conduct new retail experiments in some localized supermarkets and then apply them to larger supermarkets. This means that the box horse model will be quickly exported to more than 400 hypermarkets of Gaoxin Group.
I hope the new retail era will come soon!