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PDD Holdings

E-commerce marketplaces (Pinduoduo, Temu) · Ireland

PDD runs Pinduoduo in China and Temu abroad, two shopping platforms where third-party merchants sell and pay PDD for marketing and completed sales.

What makes it different

Pinduoduo sells in China; Temu sells to the rest of the world.

Both apps connect shoppers straight to manufacturers, cutting out layers of distributors.

How big it is

How big is PDD Holdings?

25,474EmployeesFY2025
RMB431.8BRevenueFY2025
How it makes money FY2025

Half marketing fees, half sales fees.

  • Online marketing and others50%RMB217.8B
  • Transaction services50%RMB214.1B
How the business works

Take fees from merchants, worldwide.

  1. 1Merchants and shoppers
  2. 2Marketing and sales fees
  3. 3Temu beyond China

One merchant-fee model runs both Pinduoduo at home and Temu abroad.

Who owns it
  • Entities affiliated with Zheng Huang24.8%
  • Entities affiliated with Tencent13.8%
  • Entities affiliated with PDD Partnership6.5%

CEO: Lei Chen and Jiazhen Zhao

Who it competes with
AAlibaba GroupJJD.comAmazonSHEINMeituan
Key moments
  1. 2015Commercial operations begin
  2. 2018ADSs start trading on Nasdaq
  3. 2022Temu launches in North America
  4. 2023Renamed PDD Holdings Inc.
  5. 2023Temu enters Europe
Sources

Every number on this page comes from PDD Holdings's own reports.

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