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Jack Ma locks horns with billionaire over Alibaba's parcel deliveries

The dispute may be over the control of customer info generated by millions of orders and shipments

Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba Group. Billionaire Wang Wei's SF Holding on Friday accused Alibaba's delivery affiliate in an exchange filing of removing the company as a shipping option and blocking access to vital data. Photo: Reuters
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Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba Group. Billionaire Wang Wei’s SF Holding on Friday accused Alibaba’s delivery affiliate in an exchange filing of removing the company as a shipping option and blocking access to vital data. Photo: Reuters

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China’s wealthiest man, Jack Ma, has locked horns with the country’s fourth-richest in an escalating dispute over the lucrative business of shipping Alibaba’s parcels to millions of shoppers nationwide.

Billionaire Wang Wei’s SF Holding on Friday accused Alibaba Group Holding’s delivery affiliate in an exchange filing of removing the company as a shipping option and blocking access to vital data. The affiliate backed by Ma, known as Cainiao, fired back by saying it was SF that first walled off information it needed to get parcels to customers.

It’s unclear what originally triggered their spat, which threatens a symbiotic relationship that underpinned SF’s

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