For the rumors of the completion of the 400 million U.S. dollars in financing, Jingdong mall related officials confirmed yesterday, and said that investors include Ontario Teachers Pension Fund and Tiger Fund, but for the specific details, Jingdong Mall did not disclose.
It is understood that this is the 250 million U.S. dollars is the Ontario Teacher Pension Fund, Tiger fund with the vote.
For Jingdong Mall This round of financing the main use, the industry believes that Jingdong Mall will be put into infrastructure and self-built logistics. In this respect, Jingdong Mall related responsible person did not give a clear answer, just said, Jingdong Mall, including "Asian number" and many logistics projects are operating, but the specific construction situation is not convenient to publish.
Earlier this year, Jingdong Mall CEO Liu has publicly stated that this year's logistics investment will reach 3.6 billion yuan, including land, real estate and a variety of equipment procurement.
In the next three years, Beijing East will also invest tens of billions of dollars in the national Logistics system construction. Jingdong Mall Self-built Logistics has been extended to 360 cities nationwide, the national level of urban coverage of more than 70%.
However, in the industry's view, Jingdong Mall at this time announced that financing is intriguing. In the days of the cat just by virtue of "double 11" to set a record of sales of electric dealers at the same time to obtain capital favor, help to increase shareholder and investor confidence in Jingdong Mall. Moreover, this time throws the news, also helps Jingdong mall to pull the public attention to return to the enterprise again.
This is already the Jingdong Mall to complete the fourth round of financing. The previous three rounds were the first round of today's capital of 10 million U.S. dollars in August 2007, the capital in 2009, the Bull Capital and Asian investment banker Leung private companies a total of 21 million U.S. dollars a second round of financing, April 1, 2011, again received the C round 1.5 billion U.S. dollars financing. At that time, the analysis said Jingdong mall's valuation has reached 10 billion U.S. dollars.
and financing is corresponding to the Jingdong Mall constantly out of the listing rumors. In May, it was reported that Jingdong Mall planned to list in the three quarter, but later postponed the listing plan to the second year. In August, the source said, Jingdong Mall is trying to raise more than 1 billion U.S. dollars through institutional investors, but Liu denied the financing rumors, said Jingdong Mall account funds abundant.
Although Jingdong Mall has been heavily financed, outside capital is still wary of investing in domestic electricity dealers.
Eric Consulting senior analyst Su Yanyan that, compared with other electric business enterprises, Jingdong Mall itself has a huge market size, good word-of-mouth, market position in the domestic leading, so can be recognized by the capital. But Jingdong Mall in the industry is a special case, does not have universal significance.