蘇寧宣佈收購國際米蘭約70%股份

Chinese appliance retailer Suning Commerce Group has agreed to pay 270m euros for a 70 per cent stake in Italian football club Inter Milan.

日前，來自中國的家電零售商蘇寧電器商貿集團已同意支付2.7億歐元收購意大利足球俱樂部國際米蘭70％的股份。

"Our goal is to make Internazionale Milano more internazionale," said Suning chairman Zhang Jindong, in a joint press conference with the club's president Eric Thohir announcing the deal in the Chinese city of Nanjing.

"我們的目標是讓國際米蘭更加國際化，"在與俱樂部的總裁埃裏克·託希爾在南京宣佈該交易的記者招待會上，蘇寧電器董事長張近東這樣說道。

Mr Zhang said that part of the appeal of Inter Milan, as the club is more commonly known, was that it was the first European club to visit China 38 years ago.

張近東表示，國際米蘭吸引人的一部分就是，在38年前，它是第一個訪問中國的歐洲俱樂部。

The retailer is already active in domestic Chinese football. Within a two-week period earlier this year, Jiangsu Suning Football Club acquired Chelsea's Brazilian midfielder Ramires for 28m euros (32m dollars) and Brazil's Alex Teixeira from Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk for 50m euros. Both were records for the Chinese Super League at the time.

該零售商在中國國內足球界已經很活躍。在今年年初的兩個星期內，江蘇蘇寧足球俱樂部分別以2800萬歐元簽約了切爾西的巴西中場拉米雷斯，以及用5000萬歐元簽約了烏克蘭頓涅茨克礦工隊的巴西球員亞歷克斯·特謝拉。這兩筆轉會當時都是中國足球超級聯賽的記錄創造者。

The club will benefit from Chinese "elements", Mr Zhang said, without explaining what that meant.

張近東表示，國際米蘭俱樂部將會從中國的"元素"中受益，但他沒有解釋這意味着什麼。

"From this day forward, as we add our Chinese elements to the team, and the team takes root in the largest football fan market, Internazionale Milano will be presented with greater opportunities than ever before," he said.

他說："從今往後，我們爲球隊添加了中國元素，球隊在最大的球迷市場紮根，國際米蘭將獲得比以往更多的機會，"

Jiangsu-based Suning ranked first among Chinese retail companies by sales in 2015 with Rmb159bn (24bn dollars) in turnover and 1,577 retail outlets, according to the China Chain Store and Franchise Association. But the privately owned company has looked to diversify its business in recent years amid the rise of online shopping.

根據中國連鎖經營協會數據顯示，江蘇蘇寧集團在2015年中國零售企業銷售排行中位居首位，銷售營業額爲1590億人民幣，擁有1577個零售網點。但該私營公司在近年網上購物的新浪潮中探索其業務的多樣化。

In 2013, Suning acquired a stake in Chinese online video site PPTV. The same year it changed its named from "Suning Appliance Group" to reflect a its new focus on online retail: its new Chinese name translates as "Suning Cloud Commerce". Last August, Alibaba Group bought a 20 per cent stake in Suning for $4.6bn, the ecommerce group's biggest acquisition.

2013年，蘇寧收購了中國視頻網站PPTV。同年，爲配合其在線連鎖的業務重心，公司更名爲"蘇寧雲商集團股份有限公司"。去年八月，阿里巴巴集團以46億美元收購了蘇寧電器20％的股權，這成爲該電子商務集團最大的一次收購。