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Alibaba pays $3.6bn to take over China hypermarket giant SunArt

Alibaba pays $3.6bn to take over China hypermarket giant SunArt

China’s e-commerce behemoth Alibaba has bought a controlling $3.6 billion stake in SunArt which runs hundreds of hypermarkets on the mainland for French shopping giant Auchan. The move to take a 72 per cent holding in SunArt tightens Alibaba’s grip on China’s vast e-commerce sector as it looks to soak up the new customers pushed […]