百勝出售其持有的中國股份 螞蟻金融成買家

Yum Brands is selling a stake in its Chinese division to Primavera Capital and Ant Financial as the company prepares to separate the Chinese unit from the main business.

百勝餐飲集團由於想要分離旗下中國業務，於是將其在中國的股份出售給了中國春華資本和螞蟻金服。

Primavera Capital, will pay $410m (308m pound) and Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba, will invest $50m.

據悉，春華資本公司將支付給百勝餐飲集團4.1億美元（約合3.08億英鎊），而阿里巴巴旗下的螞蟻金服則將投資5000萬美元。

The new investors will have the option to buy an additional 4% stake.

這兩位投資者將可以選擇再購買額外的4%股份。

Yum, the owner of Pizza Hut and KFC, is the largest fast food brand in China but has recently faced some trouble.

百勝餐飲集團旗下擁有快餐品牌必勝客和肯德基，是中國最大的快餐品牌，但是近些年來該公司的經營遇到了一些問題。

The company was involved in a scandal over its meat supplier and its connection to bird flu outbreaks.

百勝集團陷入了一起有關肉類供應商的醜聞，並且被指和禽流感爆發有牽連。

Yum Brands has also recently been losing ground to competitors like McDonalds.

最近在和對手麥當勞的競爭中，百勝集團也遭到了重挫。

Still, the company sees potential in the market and has plans to triple the number of its restaurants in China.

不過，該公司仍然看到了市場的潛力，並且計劃將其中國店面的數量擴張到原來的三倍。

A Yum spokesman said the company had not yet decided how the money from the sale would be used, but it is possible it may go towards the firm's expansion plan.

百勝集團一名發言人表示，該公司目前還沒有決定要怎麼使用這筆出售股份得來的資金，但是百勝公司有可能會將其用於公司的擴張計劃。

The decision to spin off Yum's Chinese business has been pushed by activist investor Keith Meister, who is a member of Yum's board of directors.

百勝集團董事會成員、激進的投資者基思·邁斯特一手促成了拆分中國業務的決定。

Yum said the separation is on track to take place on 31 October.

百勝集團表示，拆分中國業務的工作正在按部就班地進行，並將在10月31日正式宣佈。

Ant Financial runs Alibaba's Alipay mobile payment businesses and has been making a push into the Chinese restaurant industry.

螞蟻金服負責的是支付寶移動支付業務，並且一直在大舉進軍中國餐飲行業。

The company plans to make Alipay available in Yum restaurants, which will help increase its customers and the company says thus will help to cut waiting times at cash registers.

螞蟻金服計劃要讓百勝集團的餐館支持支付寶，這樣就可以幫助增加他們的客戶，而該公司也表示，這樣可以幫助減少等待收銀的時間。

"Through this collaboration, we aim to help Yum China provide world-class mobile payment services for tens of millions of customers across its brands," said Eric Jing, president of Ant Financial.

螞蟻金服總裁井賢棟表示：“通過這次合作，我們旨在向百勝中國提供世界級的移動支付服務，輻射範圍遍及百勝餐飲品牌下的數千萬客戶。”