<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > commercial robot company "Jingwu Intelligence" completed nearly 100 million yuan of Series A financing</h1>
Recently, the commercial robot company Jingwu Intelligent completed the nearly 100 million yuan A round of financing led by Oriental Fuhai, and Zhicheng Capital served as the exclusive financial adviser for this round of financing, and it is reported that this round of financing funds will be mainly used for the research and development of cleaning robots, product landing, and the global market entry of distribution robots.
Jingwu Intelligent was established in 2019. The company's founding team has come from the robot division of listed companies and has 17 years of experience in research and development in the field of robotics. At present, Jingwu Intelligent mainly has two types of products: hotel delivery robot and cleaning robot.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > Ele.me sued Meituan for unfair competition, and Meituan was awarded 1 million yuan in damages</h1>
A few days ago, the Qingdao Municipal Intermediate People's Court rendered a first-instance judgment on the case of "Hungry Mo" v. "Meituan" unfair competition dispute.
The defendants, Beijing Sankuai Online Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Sankuai Technology Co., Ltd. (the operator of the "Meituan Takeaway" platform), stopped the unfair competition on the Internet involved in the case and compensated the plaintiff, Lazas Network Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Lazas Information Technology Co., Ltd. (the operator of the "Ele.me" platform), for economic losses and reasonable expenses of RMB1 million.
Both sides accepted the judgment and did not appeal, and the "Meituan" said that it would take the initiative to perform the judgment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > Xiamen Port: Net profit in the first three quarters is expected to increase by 110%-120% year-on-year</h1>
On October 11, Xiamen Port disclosed its performance forecast for the first three quarters of 2021 after hours, and the company expects the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in the first three quarters of 2021 to be 185 million yuan to 194 million yuan, an increase of 110% to 120% over the same period last year, and basic earnings per share of 0.2964 yuan to 0.3105 yuan. The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in the third quarter was 56.0289 million yuan - 64.8526 million yuan, an increase of 39.85% - 61.87% over the same period of the previous year; basic earnings per share were 0.0896 yuan - 0.1037 yuan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > CapitaLand entered the Chinese logistics market, acquiring four assets for 1.6834 billion yuan</h1>
On 12 October, CapitaLand announced that CapitaLand China Trust ("CLCT"), a subsidiary of CapitaLand Investments, intends to acquire a logistics asset package from an unaffiliated third party at a cost of RMB1,683.4 million. The asset package includes four prime logistics assets located in Shanghai, Kunshan, Wuhan and Chengdu. This means that CapitaLand China Trust is entering the Chinese logistics market for the first time. CapitaLand said the transaction is expected to close by the end of 2021. Upon completion of the acquisition, CapitaLand China Trust's assets under management will increase by 8% to S$4,729.2 million.
According to reports, the total construction area of the four logistics assets acquired in this acquisition is 265259 square meters, the occupancy rate as of August 31, 2021 is 96.3%, and the weighted average lease period is 2.1 years. Three of the projects were completed between 2016 and 2018 and another in 2010.
Chen Ziwei, chief executive of CapitaLand China Trust Management Limited, said that the market has strong demand for logistics assets driven by the accelerated growth of e-commerce. The continued good supply and demand situation and strong net absorption of China's logistics asset market will maintain the rental growth of high-quality logistics assets.
As CapitaLand's investment focus shifts to the new economy, industrial parks, logistics and data centres have been laid out. Upon completion of the acquisition, CapitaLand's new economy assets in China will be expanded to 9 industrial parks, 4 logistics properties and 1 data centre.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > Zhongtong Express tested the water again for "timed delivery"</h1>
Zhongtong Express recently launched the "timed delivery" service, 2 yuan per single, and is expected to be promoted throughout the network in late November. According to the service rules formulated by ZTO, "regular delivery" refers to a value-added service in which the customer can make an online appointment for the delivery time within 7 days after the arrival of the package, and the courier will send the goods within the time period specified by the customer and verify it through the signature code.
The "timed delivery" service launched by ZTO this time charges 2 yuan per order, and the receiving user can purchase the service in the WeChat Mini Program and select a two-hour period from 9:00 to 19:00 as the delivery time. The courier brother will pop up the specific delivery time when scanning the delivery, and complete the signing action with the 4-digit signature code provided by the user.
As early as 2017, Cainiao Wrapping had cooperated with Zhongtong and Tiantian to pilot the "timed delivery" service in some parts of Shenzhen and Shanghai, but such businesses were not promoted on a large scale.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > the first online cross-border e-commerce company in southwest China settled in Chengdu High-tech Zone</h1>
Recently, the first online cross-border duty-free e-commerce experience hall in Southwest China, Datang Genuine, has officially settled in Jiaozi Avenue, Chengdu High-tech Zone. Under the premise of breaking through the distance, refusing high prices, and ensuring quality, the international big brands will be conveniently provided to domestic consumers, and Chengdu's own "one-stop online duty-free shop" will be created.
It is understood that the experience hall covers an area of about 1300 square meters, and its products are dazzling, covering tens of thousands of categories. Including international brands, fashion light luxury, beauty makeup, personal care, nutrition and health care, watch jewelry, skin care clothing, maternal and infant products, etc., forming a three-dimensional experience exhibition center integrating "online + offline", "domestic + overseas", "cross-border e-commerce online sales + cross-border e-commerce offline display". At present, it is also actively laying out the "front store and rear warehouse" model to provide convenient services for more consumers. At the same time, Mini Programs and APP will be launched simultaneously.
It is reported that at present, the cross-border platform mainly focuses on cross-border duty-free products in the subdivision field, with 17 branches in the country, headquartered in Chengdu High-tech Zone, and 7 branches in Chengdu.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > intelligent driving high-precision positioning system supplier "Daishi Intelligent" completed the Pre-A round of financing</h1>
Recently, the supplier of intelligent driving high-precision positioning system "DaiShi Intelligent" announced the completion of the Pre-A round of financing, invested by Aoson Capital, and the amount of financing was not disclosed.
The financing will be used for new product and process development, improving delivery capabilities, etc.
In 2018, DaiShi Intelligent launched a domestic alternative for combined inertial navigation for L4-level automatic driving, covering application scenarios such as Robotaxi and RoboBus, landing in intelligent manufacturing factories in 2020, and completing the upgrading of the new generation of IMU manufacturing processes and the localization of key processes in 2021. Bian Jiang, general manager of DaiShi Intelligent, said that by Q2 2022, the factory will achieve an annual production capacity of 500,000 sets.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="46" > UPS appointed Jiang Qian as president of China</h1>
UPS announces the appointment of Mr. Qian Jiang as President of China. With nearly 20 years of experience in international supply chain and trade management, Qian Jiang will be fully responsible for ups China express business operations and strategic decision-making, and will continue to help Local Chinese customers strengthen cross-border trade connectivity and build a resilient supply chain.
Qian Jiang succeeded Ms. Michelle Ho, who was appointed President of UPS China in 2019 and most recently President of UPS Asia Pacific.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > Gome Retail will manage Anxun Logistics and build a full range of logistics</h1>
At noon on October 11, Gome Retail announced that in order to further improve its business layout, Gome Retail entered into a framework agreement with its controlling shareholder, Gome Management, on the same day.
Specifically, Gome Management entrusts its subsidiaries Gome Home, Shared Co-construction Platform, Dress Up Home, AXN Logistics and Gome Cellar (collectively referred to as the "Target Company") to Gome Retail for management, and Gome Retail charges a corresponding management fee.
In addition, Gome Retail will also receive incentives such as equity incentives, preferential stock options and preferential stock options of relevant target companies. According to the announcement, the above-mentioned target companies cover multiple business areas such as "one store and multiple functions" offline display scenes, home improvement, home furnishing, logistics and distribution, and wine industry.
It is reported that Gome has made every effort to create six platforms of "online, offline, supply chain, logistics, big data/cloud and sharing and co-construction", creating a professional and complete retail operation closed loop, promoting the overall upgrading of Gome's retail "full scene, full link, full service, full mode", and opening a new stage of development of Gome at full speed.
At the same time, Gome will build a full range of logistics, and build a logistics platform for punctual delivery and flash store delivery. The logistics platform is a supporting logistics service system built around Gome Retail, through the platform capability, with the asset-light model, on the basis of internal services, to establish a socialized, open and shared platform logistics service capabilities.
In terms of distribution capacity, with the appointment on-time delivery service as the core, it integrates road, railway, aviation, sea, river transportation and last-mile distribution resources, and establishes a complete and cost-optimal multimodal logistics distribution network for sea, land and air intercity distribution and same-city distribution. Taking the distribution capacity of the return vehicle as the starting point, it empowers carriers to improve the full load efficiency of the vehicle and establish an online freight platform with high distribution capacity and high bidding ability; Focus on the distribution capacity of the city, expand the coverage of the distribution network of the sinking market below the third and fourth levels, and complete the real logistics to the hometown; Supporting stores front warehouse and shared pick-up points, through the single platform to build express delivery capabilities and instant delivery capabilities in the same city.
In terms of warehouse network capacity, we will build an efficient and comprehensive four-level urban warehouse network combination. Through the intelligent model of warehouse network data, optimize the original CDC, RDC, FDC, and store warehouse network to improve the overall ping efficiency; Create the most front-end warehousing capacity through the construction of store front-end warehouses; Through the cloud warehouse matching platform, warehousing resources are matched, and the social idle warehouse source and idle warehouse time period are maximized, so as to empower the owner of the cloud warehouse to improve the efficiency of the storage floor and reduce the cost of warehousing and use of the business.
While matching resources, it exports the intelligent warehouse network management system of warehousing, transportation and distribution, outputs the business standard process and operation standard, and empowers the carrier/supplier to complete the customer's logistics services with high efficiency, high quality and high standards. In the case that the goods do not enter our self-operated warehouse, through the platform's system & standard output and cloud warehouse platform matching, we can provide customers with supply chain warehouse network entrusted management services, and comprehensively meet the needs of various business segments of Gome Retail and external business for warehouse management, distribution management and installation services.
Through the platform matching and order grabbing mode, to achieve low-cost, full-chain, multi-functional supply chain complete service network, to create a national layout, cross-city interconnection, township access to the logistics network, in the timeliness experience, the "JIT" (JUST IN TIME) concept took the lead in introducing the retail industry, with the appointment "on time" as the business feature, to "flash store delivery" as the basic ability, to provide users with punctual delivery, fast delivery and delivery synchronization of high standards logistics distribution services, the formation of Axio logistics service capability label.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > Lingsheng's first China logistics fund was raised, with a total amount of US$972 million</h1>
JLL's independently operated investment management company and a world-renowned private real estate fund platform, Lingsheng Investment Management recently announced that the final round of fundraising of Lingsheng China Logistics Fund has been successfully completed, with a total fundraising amount of US$972 million.
The fund is Lingsheng's first special logistics fund in the Chinese market, mainly used to invest in modern logistics real estate with strong market fundamentals. The fund has gained popularity with many existing and new international investors, including institutional investors from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
The round of fundraising coincides with the completion of the fund and its co-investment structure, which have completed investments totaling US$423 million in 15 projects, including three recent acquisitions in Shanghai, Nanjing and Tianjin. The total investment in the fund is expected to reach $2.5 billion.
The Fund's investments span First- and Second-Tier Cities where Logistics demand is strong in China, including the Yangtze River Delta region (Shanghai Rim), the Bohai Rim region (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (South China). The fund will acquire and develop a portfolio of modern logistics assets in diversified markets with strong fundamentals to obtain substantial market development gains, while also seeking to acquire and reposition underperforming assets. In addition, with the growing demand for China's fresh food industry, the fund will focus on investing in cold chain logistics assets in the future.
Lingsheng has made early achievements in The field of logistics real estate in China, with transactions of more than US$2.1 billion since 2008. Currently, Lingsheng manages logistics assets with investments of more than US$6 billion in key Asian markets including China, Japan, South Korea and Australia.