食品伙伴网讯 据外媒报道,中国京东集团总裁刘强东(Richard Liu)已与澳大利亚上市a2牛奶公司以及澳最大葡萄酒生产商“葡萄酒宝库庄园”(Treasury Wine Estate)合作,创建“澳大利亚购物中心”,面向中国快速增长的中产阶层销售真实可靠的澳大利亚产品。
据报道,刘强东表示,京东商城(JD.com)感兴趣战略性入股澳大利亚公司,以保证澳大利亚产品的质量和供应量。据推测京东正在考虑入股a2。刘强东现正在和美国乳制品巨头迪恩食品公司一起参与竞购a2牛奶公司。
部分原文报道如下:
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.