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In the context of increasingly mature economic development, the structure of most industries has been basically stable. In order to compete for the market or carry out industrial layout, more and more large companies choose to seek breakthroughs through "mergers and acquisitions", and mergers and acquisitions After that, the jury is still out on whether it was a blessing or a curse. There are also many corporate merger and acquisition cases in 2017, so you might as well take a look. Internet company Alibaba fully acquires Damai.com (March 2017) On March 21, Alibaba announced the completion of a wholly-owned acquisition of Damai.com. According to data, in July 2014, Alibaba entered Damai.com as a D-round investor and held 32.44 shares. It was an important shareholder of Damai.com. The completion of this wholly-owned acquisition was also called "a three-year recognition process." Seriously and truly in love." Damai.com is a comprehensive live entertainment ticketing marketing platform, covering concerts, dramas, musicals, sports events and other fields. Alibaba acquired Damai.com and upgraded it to the live entertainment business group of Alibaba Culture and Entertainment Group. , to realize the business connection between Alibaba Music and Damai.com. Ele.me acquires Baidu Waimai (August 2017). On August 24, Ele.me officially announced the merger with Baidu Waimai. Baidu Waimai became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ele.me but still operates independently. It is understood that this acquisition will bind Alibaba, Baidu, and Ele.me in the field of food delivery. Baidu and Alibaba promise to provide the new platform with all-round and greater support in traffic entrance, technology, finance, etc. Ele.me's acquisition of Baidu is mainly to fill the takeout demand in its high-end market. It is also Alibaba's layout to open up word-of-mouth, Ele.me and Baidu Takeaway, seize offline traffic, and may occupy a more favorable position in the takeout market. 51life acquires Lagou.com (September 2017) On September 22, 2017, Lagou.com, a vertical recruitment platform in the Internet industry, announced that it had received a strategic investment of US$120 million from 51life Wuyou, the human resources company with the highest market value in China. Worry (51job). Through this strategic investment, the latter obtained 60% of the former's equity. According to Xu Dandan, chairman of Lagou, after this round of financing, Lagou will use Qiyouyou’s customer resources to evolve from a vertical platform to a comprehensive human resources service platform. Toutiao acquires Musical.ly (November 2017) On November 10, Toutiao officially signed a wholly-owned acquisition agreement with Musical.ly, a well-known short video social product in North America. After the transaction is completed, Toutiao’s music short video product " "Douyin" will be merged with Musical.ly. In more than a year, Toutiao has completed a comprehensive overseas layout in Japan, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, North America, South America and other regions through self-construction and purchase. As the domestic content industry faces the encirclement and suppression of BAT giants, Toutiao’s layout in overseas markets has won praise from many professionals. In the field of investment/venture capital, IDG Capital acquires the global investment business of IDG Group (January 2017). On January 19, IDG Capital, together with China Oceanwide and other Chinese consortiums, acquired the global investment business of the American International Data Group, kicking off the 2017 corporate acquisition cases the prologue. After the acquisition is completed, IDG Capital will become the controlling shareholder of IDG's global investment business. There is no holding relationship between IDG Capital and IDG, but more about spiritual commemoration and brand inheritance. IDG Capital is an early foreign investment fund that entered China and focuses on investing in Chinese technology-based companies and companies driven by technology and innovation. Hillhouse Capital took the lead in acquiring Belle International (April 2017). On April 28, Belle International Group officially announced its privatization. A consortium led by Hillhouse Capital Group, CDH Investment, and Belle International executive directors Yu Wu and Shengfang participated , announced a privatization proposal to Belle International, with a total proposed acquisition price of HK$53.1 billion. At this point, the first half of shoe king Belle International, which was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, has come to an end and has begun its second journey of entrepreneurial upgrading and transformation. Belle International hopes that through this privatization operation, with the financial support and operational resources of Hillhouse and CDH, it can win a critical window period for transformation and development. CITIC Capital acquired McDonald’s and the latter changed its name to Golden Arches (August 2017). In October, McDonald’s changed its name to Golden Arches, which detonated the Internet, but the name change was not the result of McDonald’s impulsiveness. In January, CITIC Holdings, CITIC Capital Holdings, Carlyle Group and McDonald's jointly announced a strategic cooperation and the establishment of a new company. The latter will become McDonald's master franchisee in mainland China and Hong Kong in the next 20 years.
Through this transaction, CITIC has expanded its presence in the consumer sector, taking a step closer to its strategy of more balanced development of finance and industry. CITIC's unique platform and rich resources will make it possible to further tap McDonald's all-round value. This seems to be a win-win situation. situation. Information Security Amazon acquires harvest.ai (January 2017) AWS quietly acquired San Diego-based harvest.ai for a total price of about $19 million. The company was founded by a team that included former NSA engineers. The startup's concept combined with Amazon's machine learning technology is the basis for creating a new Amazon Macie1 security service for AWS. Macie is considered a key player in helping AWS keep up with Microsoft Azure's threat detection capabilities. Amazon says Macie can now protect data stored in S3 and can support additional data arriving in the second half of the year. Microsoft acquires Hexadite (June 2017) Microsoft acquired Hexadite, an Israeli cybersecurity company, for $100 million in June. The company was established in 2014 and uses AI technology and machine learning to automate incident response. This acquisition is dedicated to improving the security performance of Windows 10 as part of advanced threat defense for Windows systems. Hexadite's technology and talent will enhance Microsoft's existing capabilities and give it the ability to add more tools and services to its solid enterprise security offerings. Cisco acquires Observable Network (July 2017) On July 13, Cisco announced that it had acquired the network security company Observable Network. Observable Network's main business is real-time network behavior monitoring to help IT teams detect anomalies that may be related to security vulnerabilities, especially in the field of cloud services. This acquisition demonstrates Cisco's continued interest in security solutions and business integration, and also expresses its determination to continue to expand its application and cloud services business. Enterprise security services are becoming increasingly important in market development. Other industries Automobile Geely acquires Malaysian automobile companies (June 2017) On June 23, Geely Group signed a final agreement with the Malaysian DRB-HICOM Group. Geely acquired 49.9% of DRB's Proton Motors and 51% of the luxury sports car brand Lotus. shares and became the exclusive foreign strategic partner of Proton Motors. After Geely acquires Proton, it will use its influence to enter the Southeast Asian market. At the same time, Geely will also provide financial and technical support after acquiring Proton to reshape its brand image in the global market and further enhance Proton's presence in Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and India. and sales in markets such as Australia. Real Estate Sunac Swallows Wanda Cultural Tourism Hotel Project (July 2017) On July 10, Wanda Commercial and Sunac China jointly issued an announcement saying that Sunac China acquired the project equity of 13 Wanda Cultural Tourism City for 29.575 billion yuan. It also acquired 76 hotels owned by Wanda for 33.595 billion yuan, bringing the total transaction value to 63.17 billion yuan. After this transaction, Sunac has acquired land, which will be more beneficial for its development in the real estate field, while Wanda has reduced its liabilities, expanded its cash flow, and continued to follow the asset-light route. It can achieve planned profits by relying on its brand. For now, it can Say it's a win-win. Movie ticket network Maoyan and Weiying merged and named Maoyan Weiying (September 2017). On September 21, Maoyan and Weiying Times announced the strategic integration and jointly formed a new company "Maoyan Weiying". Film will merge movie ticketing, performance ticketing and other related businesses into the new company. The new company after the merger owns multiple ticketing brands such as Maoyan, Yupiaoer, and Guevara, as well as the entrance traffic of Tencent and New Meida. However, in November, Tencent invested 1 billion in Maoyan, and the low-key Maoyan now has a valuation of 20 billion. ***Bike Yong'an acquires HelloBike (October 2017) On October 24, ***Bike's first merger and acquisition was born. It is inevitable for large companies to be acquired. Yonganxing officially released information that its subsidiary "Yonganxing Low Carbon Technology" acquired the entire equity of Hello Bicycle Operating Company. The main business of Yongan Bank is the purchase of public bicycles and related services by the government or relevant units. Bicycle sharing is a very small business of Yongan Bank. With this acquisition, Yong'an Bank uses its subsidiary to "swallow" Hello Bike, which can resolve the risk of entering the bicycle-sharing market alone. For Hellobike, which lacks competitiveness, "being swallowed up" can protect itself from being kicked out.
Computer Lenovo Holdings Fujitsu PC (November 2017) On November 2, Lenovo Group announced the acquisition of 51% of Fujitsu Client Computing Equipment Co., Ltd. (FCCL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu in Japan. After the establishment of the joint venture, FCCL's products will continue to be distributed and sold under the Fujitsu brand, and the current president of FCCL will also remain in office. With this acquisition, Lenovo can use Fujitsu to continue to expand the size of the PC field. It will surpass HP in the notebook field and become the world's largest PC manufacturer. It can also expand sales channels in the Japanese market. Smart TV Hisense acquires Toshiba TV (November 2017) On November 14, Hisense Electric Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hisense Group, and Toshiba Corporation jointly announced that 95% of the equity of Toshiba Imaging Solutions Company was officially transferred to Hisense, and Hisense Electric will enjoy Toshiba TV products, brands, operation services and other businesses, and has a 40-year global brand authorization for Toshiba TV. After the acquisition is completed, Hisense will integrate the R&D, supply chain and global channel resources of both parties, which will help accelerate its global market layout to a certain extent. At the same time, Hisense will likely become the third largest TV manufacturer in the world.
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