Alibaba Pictures’ shares halted
Print Edition
ALIBABA Pictures Group Ltd, the recently formed film and TV unit of Alibaba Group, said yesterday it had found possible accounting irregularities and asked for its Hong Kong-listed shares to be suspended until further notice.
The announcement comes as e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is preparing for a US initial public offering that bankers and investors expect to surpass the US$16 billion raised by Facebook Inc when it listed in 2012.
Alibaba Pictures used to be known as ChinaVision Media Group Ltd. Alibaba renamed it after completing on June 24 its US$804 million purchase of a 60 percent stake in the company.
Not ready to comment
In a filing to the stock exchange, Alibaba Pictures said its new management had during a review found possible “non-compliant treatment of financial information” from before the Alibaba purchase. Last month, the company also issued a profit warning.
“The company is not yet in a position to comment on the potential impact on its current and historical financial affairs of the matters described above,” Alibaba Pictures said.
Alibaba has ventured beyond its Internet roots with recent acquisitions into media, mapping technology and a stake in a football team.
Alibaba, whose platforms handle more goods than eBay Inc and Amazon.com Inc combined, and its affiliates have spent almost US$10 billion on acquisitions since the beginning of 2013.
These deals include a US$192 million purchase in June of China’s most successful football club, the Guangzhou Evergrande, which was hatched over a few drinks.
Alibaba Pictures said it will delay the publication of its interim financial results while its audit committee completes an inquiry into the financial statements.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
