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Alibaba to Buy Controlling Stake in Lazada For About $1 Billion

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has announced it agreed to buy a controlling stake in online retailer Lazada for about $1 billion to expand its platform into Southeast Asia.

Reuters

12 April 2016

HANGZHOU, China — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Tuesday it agreed to buy a controlling stake in online retailer Lazada for about $1 billion to expand its platform into Southeast Asia.

Alibaba would invest about $500 million in newly issued Lazada shares and acquire shares from shareholders of Lazada for a total of about $1 billion.

Lazada operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

In a separate announcement, Britain's biggest supermarket operator Tesco Plc said it agreed to sell an 8.6 percent stake in Lazada to Alibaba for $129 million.

By Rama Venkat Raman; editor: Gopakumar Warrier.

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