美团与大众点评合并
时间:2015-10-10 00:14:52
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China's two online-to-offline service providers Meituan.com and Dianping.com have merged2.
The 15-billion-U.S. dollar new company will run on a co-CEO basis and keep the original structure of their respective human resources departments.
Meituan and Dianping will also continue to run their businesses in parallel, retain their brands, as well as remain independent.
Meituan.com is a group-buying site backed by Alibaba Group.
美团与大众点评合并 将称霸O2O?
Consumer review service Dianping.com is funded by Tencent Holdings.
The
merger3 is expected to compete with Baidu.
For more on this, CRI's Spencer Musick
spoke4 with Doug Young, Associate professor at Fudan University and former China company news chief with Reuters.
Questions:
1.Why did Meituan and Dianping
merge1 into a new provider of online services?
2.
Analysts5 say the merge between Meituan and Dianping would allow them to have absolute dominance of the group-buying market in China. Do you agree with this point and believe the move will benefit both companies?
3.What is the significance to the Chinese online to offline market?
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