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Daily-deals website Groupon goes live in China on Monday
Daily-deals website Groupon goes live in China on Monday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], bringing its popular brand of Internet retail to the world's most populous nation.GaoPeng.com,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], funded by Groupon, the Tencent (0700.HK) Collaboration Fund and Yunfeng Capital, will begin accepting email registrations from local consumers, with daily deals promoting local merchants to debut in March.
However, analysts cast doubts over how successful Groupon can be in China given the numerous group-buying websites that are already active in the country."There are many entrenched companies already offering this product," Wuh said.Taobao,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], China's largest consumer e-commerce website, launched a group-buying website last year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while other sites such as Mei Tuan and Man Zuo have also sprung up. Popular portal websites such as Tencent's QQ and Sohu.com (SOHU.O) have also launched group-buying websites.
China had almost 19 million group-buying users at the end of 2010, according to government statistics.Wuh said the move is generally positive for Tencent as it signals that China's largest Internet firm is further expanding its operations its core revenue driver of games.
Groupon had been widely reported to be scouting out locations and workers in China,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], seeking the global expansion its plethora of rivals have not embarked upon.Groupon, the two-year-old start-up that has met bankers about an initial public offering and which sources say rebuffed a $6 billion advance from Google Inc (GOOG.O) -- has seen phenomenal growth.
It has grown to about 50 million users from 3 million across 500 cities in 40 countries over the course of 2010.But the competition is intensifying,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with the likes of LivingSocial expanding in the same space and a plethora of websites springing up globally that specialize in deals for niche markets.
Groupon recently completed a $950 million round of financing on its way to pondering an IPO, which sources have said would be one of the largest technology IPOs of 2011. [ID:nN10289323]Its venture capital backers and late-stage investors include Andreessen Horowitz,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Battery Ventures,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mail.ru Group, Maverick Capital, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures.
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