Alibaba doubles down on logistics with $1.4B investment in Chinese courier ZTO

Alibaba doubles down on logistics with $1.4B investment in Chinese courier ZTO

6 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/alibaba-doubles-down-on-logistics/

Alibaba is doubling down on logistics after it led a $1.38 billion investment in Chinese courier firm ZTO Express alongside Alibaba logistics affiliate Cainiao.

ZTO went public on the NYSE in 2016 raising $1.4 billion from what was the year’s largest IPO in the U.S. The Shanghai-based company claims to be one of China’s largest logistics firms via a partner-based network. Its clients include Alibaba and rival e-commerce firm JD.com . There’s plenty more overlap between the two, ZTO CFO Huiping Yan previously spent two years working for Cainiao.