1. Different establishment times
Dianping.com was established in Shanghai in April 2003. Dianping is China's leading local life information and transaction platform and the world's earliest independent third-party consumer review website. Dianping not only provides users with information services such as business information, consumer reviews, and consumer discounts, but also provides O2O (Online To Offline) transaction services such as group buying, restaurant reservations, takeaways, and electronic membership cards.
Meituan.com is a group buying website established on March 4, 2010. Meituan.com has the service promotion tenets of "Everything to eat, drink and have fun" and "Meituan is beautiful every time". The headquarters is located at No. 6, Wangjing East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
2. Different operating locations
In addition to the Shanghai headquarters, Dianping has set up branches in more than 160 cities including Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Hangzhou, and Nanjing.
Meituan.com will set up a national operation center in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province. The reporter learned from the Shijiazhuang Municipal Commerce Bureau that Meituan.com will open a national operation demonstration center in Jinshi Industrial Park, Shijiazhuang City, in addition to its Beijing headquarters. . This is another service outsourcing enterprise introduced by Shijiazhuang City.
3. Different service models
Dianping.com covers all kinds of life information and is a relatively comprehensive website. Dianping guides traffic and mainly uses advertising mode. For users, Dianping should provide services such as content decision-making, payment discounts and ranking.
Meituan is a purely group buying and takeaway website. Meituan focuses on transactions, and its income comes from deduction points; Meituan started out on the wave of group buying, and its transaction attributes are innate genes.
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