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LIU Yu: Before the global M&A, internet channel need to be integrated first

source_from: NETEASE NEWS    Jun 13,2016

2016年6月6日,中英企业家俱乐部在英国伦敦举行的“第二届中英企业家峰会”期间正式成立。中英企业家俱乐部由中英产业领军人物发起,致力于促进对话交流,嫁接互补优势,推动中英两国创新合作与产业融合。中国企业正以一种全新的模式,参与到这一轮全球产业链布局重塑的进程中。

Liu Yu participated in founding WOWO 6 years ago, it’s a Chinese internet based group buying company, which was listed on NASDAQ in 2015. I noted the potential of fast growing consumption by Chinese young generation through WOWO rapid growth. Thus, I started the investment company to focus on consumption upgrading, especially by China’s young-generation. I have some thoughts described as below on how to seize the market bonus of consumption upgrading in transition China.

The first opinion is a viewpoint of the development of consuming patterns .The consumption patterns have been undergoing dramatic changes. China has a middle class of 200 million people, and the tier three and four cities have had big growth. The number and spending power of the consumer groups had fast annual growth, representing the world's most powerful consumer market. The fast release of this spending power also brought two significant issues, firstly, the internet-led consumption led to the rapid growth of consumption patterns, which is mostly contributed by post-80s and post-90s of China young generation who prefer to purchase online. Secondly, compared with the fast growing consumption patterns, the product, service and technology are still lagging far behind. Thus, the main conflict is between fast changing consumption patterns and the seriously lagging of good consumer contents, products, technology and high-end services. Since the consumption pattern in China’s 1980s and 1990s is going through great changes, from the pursuit of cost-effective to individual customization, from tourism consumption to experiential consumption, and from passive consumption to active consumption, my first conclusion is : based on the changes, the key issue of seizing the opportunity with consumption upgrade is the integration in investments associated with internet companies to improve their innovative consumption mode. In the past 4 years, our company has been focusing on integration in invests mainly in three industries: automotive aftermarket and car servicing, healthcare service and fashion culture &entertainment.

The second aspect is a viewpoint of industry consolidation, as I have mentioned that the biggest contradiction in China is the rapid growth of consumption patterns and the seriously lagging consumer contents, products and services. That is to say, the largest industry consolidation opportunity between China and Britain is that Britain has the most high-tech industry, high-end services, as well as innovation. If those abilities can be enlarged in China consumer market, which is ten times larger than UK consumer market, it will bring great opportunities to the future economic and trade cooperation, and investment cooperation between China and Britain. Besides, there will be a industry consolidation as a series of chemical reaction between the consumption growth in China and the industry consolidation of UK high-end products, services and technology solutions. So the first thing we have been doing over the past few years is to integrate the consumer channels in Chinese vertical industry, and then to consider to re-integrate with the global high-quality consumer contents, products and services, rather than simply buying and selling companies. For example, the China largest community-based elderly care service company we have invested in recent years is now covering more than 100 cities with more than 4,000 offline stores. It is a good basis for our further integration with global health care products, chronic disease management and high quality assets of medical and healthcare services. Therefore, my second point is to integrate one of the domestic vertical markets with specialized needs through innovative Internet channel before going for global M&A to integrate with those related high quality assets.

The third opinion is a viewpoint of financial investment: I believe that there are two biggest structured opportunities. The first lies on the structured chance associated with estimated valuation gap between the innovative industries like Internet industries and the traditional industries, and the second exists in the value differentiation of the assets securitization among industry fields and nations. Integrating these two structured opportunities into M&A will bring unimaginable investment potentials.

The above three points are my main opinions about M & A and industries integration between China and the UK. President Xi’s visiting to the UK in last year brings us golden collaboration chances and opportunities, and we sincerely hope to cooperate with partners from UK to promote M & A and industry consolidation together.
第二届中英企业家峰会是由英国中华总商会主办,主题为“投·创未来”,包括全国政协副主席、中华全国工商业联合会主席王钦敏、中国驻英大使刘晓明、英国工业联合会主席保罗·德雷克斯勒等在内的中英两国500余位政商界领袖出席了会议。

85后投资新锐刘宇,主要投资汽车后服务市场、时尚文化市场、及健康服务三大领域。磁晅资本董事长,正和磁系创始人兼CEO,中国第一支O2O基金发起人,旗下基金管理规模近40亿。其创立投资的磁云科技是中国互联网+的产业互联网孵化器,旗下汇集近百位互联网CEO;其创立投资的磁斯达克是互联网化一级市场股权交易平台,平台管理基金20多亿元。

刘宇曾就读于上海财经大学,从大二开始创业,2010年参与创建团购网站窝窝团(NASDAQ:WOWO)并在纳斯达克上市,任职销售副总裁3年多的时间,为其积累了丰富的O2O领域管理运作经验。

2016年3月,刘宇创立的磁晅资本以7.5亿人民币战略投资上市公司量子高科(股票代码:300149),成为量子高科第二大股东。

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