Netease Koala Was Exposed To Merge With Amazon'S Overseas Purchase Business In China

In August 13th, according to the news, NetEase koala is financing, and the contact side may include Alibaba, a lot of e-commerce platforms. "Now, we have not yet finalized the target."

In addition, it was reported that before the snowball community, users posted that "NetEase koala will make a price of 2 billion dollars to sell to Alibaba."

For the relevant financing rumors, NetEase koala responded that "rumors of market rumors, we do not comment." In addition, the NetEase "koala price $2 billion sold to Alibaba" rumors, reporters to Ali, NetEase koala aspects to verify. Ali responded that "no comment on market rumors". NetEase koala replied, "we do not comment on rumors of market rumors."

It is learned that NetEase has always been open to the introduction of external strategic investment. NetEase CFO Yang Zhaoxuan has said before that NetEase has an open attitude to the introduction of external strategic investment in the electricity business, and welcomes any strategic partner, especially at the commercial level. NetEase will consider introducing external strategic investors when the time is right. Related information shows that NetEase's music, education and other plate products have been financing.

In August 8th this year, the two quarter earnings report released by NetEase showed that the net income of its e-commerce business was 5 billion 247 million yuan, an increase of 20.2% over the same period last year, the lowest growth rate since NetEase's separate business income report of NetEase. However, the gross profit margin of NetEase's electricity providers improved to 10.9% during the quarter. From the four quarter of 2017 to now, the growth rate of NetEase koala net income has been declining, from 175.2% to 20.2%.

As for the reason why NetEase's net income growth slowed down, Cao Lei, director of e-commerce research center, said that the external macro-economic downward pressure on external factors will have an impact on the real economy and even the Internet business. In addition, in the first half of the year, the NetEase electronic business block also carried out personnel optimization adjustment and advertising budget compression. From the perspective of internal factors, as the volume and base of NetEase's electricity providers are increasing, the growth rate will be slower because of the larger base.

But despite the slowdown, NetEase's e-commerce business has been one of the main sources of NetEase revenue. Data show that since the fourth quarter of 2017, the electricity business has been listed separately in the earnings report, the electricity supplier income usually maintains 1/4 of NetEase's total revenue, and usually reaches 1/3 at the end of the year.

In February of this year, NetEase koala was exposed to merge with Amazon China's overseas purchase business. The negotiations took place for several months and was initiated and promoted by NetEase koala. However, both sides said they did not comment on the news, and then no new news came out. In April this year, Amazon announced that it will no longer operate China's domestic market business from July 18th and stop providing services to merchants.