Dingdong

Dingdong (Cayman) Limited is a fresh grocery e-commerce company operating in mainland China. The company directly provides users and households with fresh groceries, prepared food, and other food products. It utilizes an extensive self-operated frontline fulfillment grid to deliver these products. Fresh groceries are the core product category, with expansion into prepared food and other food products. The company has launched a series of private label products across various food categories. As of the date of this annual report, these private label products are primarily produced in its self-operated production plants and by selected third-party manufacturers who follow the company's food recipes and production protocols. Dingdong production plants feature advanced facilities and highly automated production lines, adhering to scientific production procedures and safety standards for end-to-end quality control. The company also works to modernize mainland China's traditional agricultural supply chain through standardization and digitalization, aiming to empower upstream farms, cooperatives, and other suppliers to improve production efficiency and tailor to demand. It employs a frontline fulfillment grid model for last-mile delivery of fresh groceries and has developed end-to-end digital solutions for fast and high-quality delivery of fresh produce and food products.