{"id":671378,"date":"2026-05-29T03:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:43:17","slug":"no-chinese-subsidies-involved-in-ceconomy-deal-jd-com-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671378\/","title":{"rendered":"No Chinese subsidies involved in Ceconomy deal, JD.com says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BRUSSELS, May 28 (Reuters) &#8211; JD.com&#8217;s acquisition of German retailer \u200cCeconomy will not be \u200cfinanced by Chinese subsidies, the Chinese \u200bonline retailer said on Thursday after EU antitrust regulators opened a full-scale investigation under \u200cthe bloc&#8217;s \u2060subsidy rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;The proposed acquisition of CECONOMY AG \u2060by JD.COM will not be financed by any foreign \u200bsubsidies granted \u200bby China \u200bor any \u200cother non-EU Member State, but instead is funded by external private bank debt and available cash from ordinary course \u200cbusiness activities,&#8221; the \u200bcompany said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;JD.COM has \u200bnot \u200breceived any foreign subsidies \u200cin relation to \u200bthe transaction \u200bthat might give rise to a distortion of competition \u200bin \u200cthe EU,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Foo Yun Chee;Editing \u200bby Sudip Kar-Gupta)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, May 28 (Reuters) &#8211; JD.com&#8217;s acquisition of German retailer \u200cCeconomy will not be \u200cfinanced by Chinese subsidies,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[292921,28,292924,101,292922,292923,18907],"class_list":["post-671378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-antitrust-regulators","tag-business","tag-ceconomy","tag-economy","tag-full-scale-investigation","tag-online-retailer","tag-subsidies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}