怡和旗下公司入股中国永辉超市

Dairy Farm International, the Asian retail arm of Jardine Matheson, has agreed to pay $925m for a minority stake in a regional Chinese hypermarket chain Yonghui, braving a sector that has proved difficult to foreign retailers.

怡和集团(Jardine Matheson)旗下亚洲零售子公司牛奶国际(Dairy Farm International)同意斥资9.25亿美元收购中国地区性超市连锁企业永辉超市(Yonghui)的少数股权，勇敢进入境外零售商迄今难以打开局面的中国零售行业。

The 20 per cent stake is the biggest single acquisition by value by the Jardine Matheson group for at least a decade, according to Dealogic data. The Singapore-listed group, operating via a web of companies, tends to buy small stakes and increase them in stages.

Dealogic数据显示，此次收购永辉超市20%股权是怡和集团起码10年内发起的最大收购（按价值计）。怡和集团是一家在新加坡上市的集团，通过一个企业网络展开运营，倾向于收购对象企业的少数股权，然后一点一点地增持股权。

The purchase highlights how the conglomerate is widening its focus beyond its southeast Asia and Hong Kong strongholds.

这桩收购凸显了这家企业集团是如何把重心从其大本营东南亚和香港向其他地区拓展的。

Its interests range from control of Astra, Indonesia’s largest listed company, to being the biggest landlord in Hong Kong’s prime business district. But, to date it has had limited interests in China outside of a few property developments.

怡和集团的业务范围很广泛，从控股印尼最大上市企业Astra到香港主要商业区的最大房东。但迄今为止，除了几个房地产开发项目外，该集团在中国内地的业务相当有限。

In January, the group bought a one-fifth stake in Zhongsheng Group, a car dealership, for $731m. Including the Yonghui deal, Jardine Matheson has spent $1.7bn in the Chinese mainland this year. Dairy Farm already operates popular Asian supermarket chains such as Wellcome and the health and beauty chain Mannings. Yonghui’s strongest presence is in inland China where consumption is growing more rapidly than in coastal areas, analysts said.

1月，怡和集团以7.31亿美元收购了汽车经销商中升集团(Zhongsheng Group) 20%的股权。若包括入股永辉超市的交易，怡和集团今年在内地投资额已达17亿美元。牛奶国际已在运营一些颇受欢迎的亚洲连锁超市——比如顶好超市(Wellcome)——以及健康与美容产品超市万宁(Mannings)。分析师们表示，永辉超市的业务集中在消费增长快于沿海地区的中国内陆地区。