怡和旗下公司入股中國永輝超市
Dairy Farm International, the Asian retail arm of Jardine Matheson, has agreed to pay $925m for a minority stake in a regional Chinese hypermarket chain Yonghui, braving a sector that has proved difficult to foreign retailers.
怡和集團(Jardine Matheson)旗下亞洲零售子公司牛奶國際(Dairy Farm International)同意斥資9.25億美元收購中國地區性超市連鎖企業永輝超市(Yonghui)的少數股權，勇敢進入境外零售商迄今難以打開局面的中國零售行業。The 20 per cent stake is the biggest single acquisition by value by the Jardine Matheson group for at least a decade, according to Dealogic data. The Singapore-listed group, operating via a web of companies, tends to buy small stakes and increase them in stages.
Dealogic數據顯示，此次收購永輝超市20%股權是怡和集團起碼10年內發起的最大收購（按價值計）。怡和集團是一家在新加坡上市的集團，通過一個企業網絡展開運營，傾向於收購對象企業的少數股權，然後一點一點地增持股權。
The purchase highlights how the conglomerate is widening its focus beyond its southeast Asia and Hong Kong strongholds.
這樁收購凸顯了這家企業集團是如何把重心從其大本營東南亞和香港向其他地區拓展的。
Its interests range from control of Astra, Indonesia’s largest listed company, to being the biggest landlord in Hong Kong’s prime business district. But, to date it has had limited interests in China outside of a few property developments.
怡和集團的業務範圍很廣泛，從控股印尼最大上市企業Astra到香港主要商業區的最大房東。但迄今爲止，除了幾個房地產開發項目外，該集團在中國內地的業務相當有限。In January, the group bought a one-fifth stake in Zhongsheng Group, a car dealership, for $731m. Including the Yonghui deal, Jardine Matheson has spent $1.7bn in the Chinese mainland this year. Dairy Farm already operates popular Asian supermarket chains such as Wellcome and the health and beauty chain Mannings. Yonghui’s strongest presence is in inland China where consumption is growing more rapidly than in coastal areas, analysts said.
1月，怡和集團以7.31億美元收購了汽車經銷商中升集團(Zhongsheng Group) 20%的股權。若包括入股永輝超市的交易，怡和集團今年在內地投資額已達17億美元。牛奶國際已在運營一些頗受歡迎的亞洲連鎖超市——比如頂好超市(Wellcome)——以及健康與美容產品超市萬寧(Mannings)。分析師們表示，永輝超市的業務集中在消費增長快於沿海地區的中國內陸地區。
