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“618” without sales
The e-commerce mid-year promotion “618” is coming to an end, and all platforms are “quieter” than last year. Even JD.com does not announce the turnover, only saying that “the growth rate exceeded expectations” and “created a new record”. Last year, JD.com’s “618” transaction volume was 379.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%.
Ali did not say the specific sales last year. This year they said that as of 0:00 on June 18, the turnover of more than 2.56 million small and medium-sized merchants exceeded the same period last year, and the turnover of 305 brands exceeded 100 million. Pinduoduo said that the sales of all categories of home appliance brands except mobile phones doubled year-on-year. Xiaomi is one of the few brands that has announced specific sales. Its omni-channel sales exceeded 19.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%.
An e-commerce company that has been in business for many years is unwilling to elaborate, and a new e-commerce company that has been in business for only a few years is also reluctant to elaborate.
- Kuaishou: The order volume increased by nearly 40% year-on-year, and the number of buyers increased by nearly 30% year-on-year. The GMV of brand products increased by more than 200% year-on-year, and the GMV of search payments increased by nearly 130% year-on-year;
- Xiaohongshu: Compared with last year, the number of participating products this year has increased by about 5 times year-on-year, and the average number of daily purchase users has increased by about 4 times year-on-year;
Not only do these artificial shopping festivals have no specific sales figures, but the e-commerce platforms that manufacture them have disclosed less and less business data in the past two years.
Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo have stopped talking about GMV for a long time, and each company also announced the number of monthly active users. In the second quarter of last year, Meituan combined and disclosed the food delivery business segment previously announced separately with store arrivals, hotel travel and Meituan flash sales data as “core local business”, and the specific order volume, cost, and gross profit were hidden in a large whole.
It is human nature to beautify what you do with various numbers. When individuals come together, it becomes an organizational behavior. Enterprises’ obsession with numbers has not changed, but the number that can be taken out without embellishment has decreased. Against the backdrop of damage to the balance sheets of residents and a slowdown in investment by private enterprises, it has become more complicated for e-commerce companies that still have room for growth to say and not say. (Gong Fangyi)
Intel makes up lessons and builds a $25 billion factory in Israel
On June 18 local time, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Intel has planned to invest 25 billion US dollars to build a fab in the local area.
Intel has not disclosed the specific investment details, but judging from the scale of funds, the new investment will most likely adopt Intel’s most advanced technology. For comparison, TSMC’s initial investment in building a 5nm plant in Arizona, USA was US$12 billion. After adding a 3nm plant in the second phase, the total investment increased to US$40 billion.
Intel also announced last week that it will invest US$4.6 billion in Poland to build a packaging and testing plant, and its investment in Germany is also close to US$20 billion. Introduced into Europe. In the next ten years, Intel’s total investment in Europe will be close to 100 billion US dollars.
Intel’s aggressive expansion is related to the high subsidies offered by governments of various countries, but it is more of a “remedial lesson” for the previous backwardness.
Intel’s capital expenditure has been caught up by TSMC in recent years. Considering that TSMC’s business is concentrated in chip manufacturing, while Intel also has to take care of chip design, the gap between the two investment in the same field will only be greater.
Spending more and spending less is directly reflected in the process. Since 2015, Intel has repeatedly announced the delay of 10nm and 7nm processes. At present, competitors TSMC and Samsung’s 3nm process have already been mass-produced, while Intel’s Intel 4 (7nm) process mass production will have to wait until the second half of this year.
In some frontiers where it has invested heavily, Intel has not been able to continue. For example, they once funded ASML’s EUV lithography technology, and by 2020, half of these EUV lithography machines will be installed in TSMC, but Intel itself has just started using them.
Chip is a typical winner-take-all industry. The most advanced companies make the most profits, and then invest large sums of money in technology research and development and capacity expansion to further expand their leading advantages. It is extremely difficult for latecomers to catch up.
In addition to not investing heavily when and where it should be spent, Intel is too obsessed with the IDM model that integrates design and manufacturing, which has also caused it to miss many opportunities. For example, it is also a foundry chip. TSMC’s only goal is to manufacture more advanced chips for customers at a lower cost, and Intel’s potential customers (chip design companies) are also its competitors.
After squandering its lead step by step, Intel eventually screwed up both: in the field of chip design, it was overtaken by Nvidia, and in the field of manufacturing, it was left behind by TSMC. Intel’s latest market value is $150 billion, equivalent to one-third of TSMC and one-seventh of Nvidia. (Qiu Hao)
Chow Tai Fook cuts plans to open stores in the Mainland
Last Friday (June 16), “Wandian Finance” was invited to participate in the 2023 media exchange meeting held by Chow Tai Fook in Shanghai. Organize performance exchange activities with mainland media.
In the fiscal year ended March this year, Chow Tai Fook’s performance was not good. In addition to the turnover falling to 94.684 billion Hong Kong dollars, operating profit also fell by 5.6% to 9.44 billion Hong Kong dollars. The same-store sales of its most important gold jewelry, platinum, jewelry inlays, and K gold jewelry all fell by double digits.
In the past two years, Chow Tai Fook has expanded in the mainland at an average annual rate of 1,500 new stores, and more than 80% of the new stores are outside the first- and second-tier cities. Huang Shaoji, managing director of the company, explained that it was because many consumers went to first-tier cities to shop, and many e-commerce delivery addresses also came from non-first- and second-tier cities. consumers of good brands”.
As of the end of March this year, Chow Tai Fook had 7,269 stores in the mainland, completing the set goal two years ahead of schedule. This year, the pace of store opening will be significantly slowed down, and only 600 to 800 stores are expected to be added.
Huang Shaoji said that Chow Tai Fook’s current store openings are sufficient to support its development in the next three to five years, and it will focus more on improving the operating quality and efficiency of its stores. (Qiu Hao)
OTHER NEWS
Chinese President met with US Secretary of State Blinken on the 19th.
On the afternoon of June 19, Chinese President met with US Secretary of State Blinken at the Great Hall of the People. On the morning of June 19, Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, met with visiting US Secretary of State Blinken. On June 18, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang held talks with Blinken.
Ma Yun believes that the traffic of Taobao and Tmall should be tilted towards Taobao in the future.
According to “LatePost”, Ma Yun had an exchange with the business leaders of Taotian Group in late May. According to a number of employees, Ma Yun believes that the current competitive situation is severe, and the methodologies that have been relied on for success in the past may not be applicable and should be changed quickly; he also predicts that consumer confidence will continue to be insufficient, so he should “return” to Taobao next. Several employees judged that platform traffic may shift from Tmall to Taobao. Last year, about 70% of Taobao Tmall’s revenue came from brand merchants.
Cathay Pacific will recruit flight attendants in the Mainland and provide subsidies to flight attendants who can speak multiple Asian languages.
Last month, three flight attendants on a Cathay Pacific flight from Chengdu to Hong Kong were accused of discriminating against mainland passengers. A number of optimization measures were implemented internally. Including the recruitment of flight attendants in the mainland from July, the expansion of the Mandarin service team, the in-flight announcements in Mandarin on all flights to and from the mainland from August, subsidies for flight attendants who can speak multiple Asian languages, and so on.
Executive Chairman of Ford: The United States is not ready to deal with China in electric vehicle manufacturing.
Bill Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford of the United States, said that the United States is not ready for competition from China’s electric vehicle manufacturing industry. He believes that Chinese electric vehicles will enter the US market one day, and American car companies need to actively respond. Ford’s CEO has also said that the main competitor in the field of electric vehicles is from China, not GM or Toyota. Earlier this year, Ford announced an investment of 3.5 billion US dollars to build a car battery factory in the United States. Ningde Times was responsible for the preparation and operation of the factory and licensed it to use battery patented technology.
AstraZeneca denies plans to split its Chinese business and go public in Hong Kong.
According to media reports, the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is planning to spin off its Chinese business and go public in Hong Kong. According to China Business News, Wang Lei, AstraZeneca’s global executive vice president, international business and president of China, called the news a rumor. People familiar with the matter said that if AstraZeneca chooses to list in Hong Kong or Shanghai, China, it will reduce the pressure brought by geopolitical risks and help promote the development of its business in China. AstraZeneca entered the Chinese market 30 years ago. China is currently its second largest market in the world, accounting for 20% of its revenue last year.
The Paris Air Show is back in-person for the first time in four years, with manufacturers concerned that production of planes may not keep up with demand.
The biennial Paris Air Show opened on the 19th. The industry expects that as airlines replace old aircraft and purchase new aircraft to cope with business growth, about 2,100 orders may be generated during the period. However, due to the layoff of thousands of experienced workers in the aviation industry during the epidemic, the production speed may not be able to keep up. Aircraft leasing prices are also on the rise, with July rents for new Boeing 737 Max 8 planes expected to rise to $350,000 a month, 15% higher than before the pandemic.
Tiger Global Private Equity Fund raised less than expected.
Tiger Global’s new private equity fund, which launched in October last year, aims to raise $6 billion and has raised just over $2 billion so far. Another well-known venture capital Insight Partners’ new fund only raised about one-tenth of the target value. In the first quarter of this year, the funds raised by American venture capital decreased by more than 70% year-on-year, highlighting the market’s concerns about the liquidity of private equity and the valuation of technology companies. On the other hand, as AI boosted the stock prices of mature technology companies such as Microsoft and Meta, the return of Tiger Global’s hedge fund rose to 15.5% this year.
Buffett increased his holdings of the five largest trading companies in Japan to 8.5%.
Berkshire Hathaway announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary has increased its stake in Japan’s five largest trading companies to an average of more than 8.5%. The five major trading companies are Itochu Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation. Buffett intends to hold his Japanese investments for the long term and will only buy up to 9.9% of any one of the five companies. In April, Buffett visited Japan and said he had increased his stake in Japan’s five major trading companies to 7.4%, Berkshire Hathaway’s largest investment outside the United States.
Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group sells its investment banking division to its CEO.
SVB Securities, the investment banking business of Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group, will be sold to Jeff Leerink, the founder and CEO of the department, and will be renamed Leerink Partners later. The predecessor company of SVB Securities was established in 1995, focusing on investment in the healthcare industry. It was acquired by Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group in 2019 and continues to be managed by its founder, Jeff Leerink. After the acquisition is completed, the company will continue to invest in the healthcare sector.
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