{"id":1009525,"date":"2026-05-23T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009525"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:48:44","slug":"chinas-jd-com-weighs-2-billion-bid-for-uk-retailer-the-very-group-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/chinas-jd-com-weighs-2-billion-bid-for-uk-retailer-the-very-group-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s JD.com weighs \u00a32 billion bid for UK retailer The Very Group: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese \u200becommerce giant JD.com \u200bis eyeing a potential \u00a32 billion ($2.69 \u200bbillion) bid for the British online shopping platform The Very Group, Sky News reported \u200con \u2060Friday, in \u2060its latest push to expand \u200bin the UK market.<\/p>\n<p>The move would follow JD.com&#8217;s \u200bearlier UK efforts, including its failed takeover bid for electricals group \u200bCurrys and its decision \u2060last year \u200cto walk away \u200bfrom \u200btalks to acquire Argos \u2060from Sainsbury&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The Very Group declined to comment \u200bon the report, while JD.com \u200bdid not immediately respond to a request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese \u200becommerce giant JD.com \u200bis eyeing a potential \u00a32 billion ($2.69 \u200bbillion) bid for the British online shopping platform The Very Group, Sky News reported \u200con \u2060Friday, in \u2060its latest push to expand \u200bin the UK market. The move would follow JD.com&#8217;s \u200bearlier UK efforts, including its failed takeover bid for electricals group \u200bCurrys and its decision \u2060last year \u200cto walk away \u200bfrom \u200btalks to acquire Argos \u2060from Sainsbury&#8217;s. The Very Group declined to comment \u200bon the report, while JD.com \u200bdid not immediately respond to a request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009549,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009525\/revisions\/1009549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}