Through the wealth life

Chapter 624 Asian Market
At 27:07 on the evening of the 30th, Li Guangyu came to the Peninsula Hotel to attend the banquet hosted by the leader of the French Communist Party, Georges Marchet.

After visiting the mainland on the 14th of this month, this man did not come to Xiangjiang until yesterday. Tonight, he invited elites from the business circles of Xiangjiang to attend the banquet.

At present, France has the Socialist Mitterrand as president, and the French Communist Party is an ally of the Socialist Party. Georges Marshall and the current President Mitterrand have a relatively harmonious relationship.

At present, the internal economic situation in France is similar to that in England, and the domestic inflation and unemployment rate are high. This time George Marshall came to Asia, especially to the mainland, hoping to increase cooperation with the mainland and find new opportunities for the development of French domestic enterprises. market and improve the current state of domestic economic development.

This time, George Marshall passed by Xiangjiang and met with Xiangjiang business people. He also hoped to reach some cooperation with Xiangjiang business circles, and invited Xiangjiang business people to visit France, invest in France, and improve the current economic situation in France.

Regarding the situation in Xiangjiang, George Marshall read a lot of information here before coming to Asia.

Although the area of ​​Xiangjiang is small, the strength of the business community here is not weak at all, and the situation here is also particularly complicated.

However, under such a complicated environment, the business elites in Xiangjiang were able to achieve such great achievements, especially the Chinese-funded families in Xiangjiang, facing the suppression of the British-funded consortium in Xiangjiang, they finally defeated the British-funded consortium. , he admired the heads of these Chinese-funded families very much.

Moreover, he also learned that his domestic enterprises have also hit a snag here. Carrefour, which is flourishing in Western Europe, came to develop the Asian market, but suffered a disastrous failure. It has been more than a year and still has not achieved Too much progress.

And Carrefour's opponent is Li Guangyu, the current uncrowned king of Xiangjiang's business circle, the leader of the Xiangjiang Huazi family.

Whether it is in Japan or Taiwan, whether it is in Singapore or Thailand, Carrefour is facing pressure from Hengyu Supermarket Group, a subsidiary of the Lee Consortium. What makes Carrefour even more sad is that the Lee Consortium and the local retail giants have taken action against them. .

And Carrefour wanted to join hands with local supermarket forces to deal with Hengyu Supermarket Group, but unfortunately, these local supermarket forces refused without any hesitation, which is enough to show the influence of Li's consortium in these areas.

The Lee Consortium has continuously invested huge amounts of money in England over the past few years, which has also made the French government jealous. If these funds are invested in France, they will also have a very good improvement in their economy.

Especially the market occupied by the Lee Consortium in the Asian region. Just look at the current development of the Bentley Group. In the past, the Bentley Group was better than Jaguar. It still has a good market in North America. Other brands are not well-known in Asia.

But now, Baodao, Xiangjiang, and many families in Southeast Asia no longer buy Rolls-Royce, but choose Bentley, and the upper elites also choose to buy Jaguar. their group market.

During his visit to the mainland this time, George Marshall also inspected the FAW factory, and the FAW Kirin Automobile Company, a joint venture between FAW and Bentley Group, was naturally also within the scope of his inspection.

Although the cars produced by this company are basically provided to the government, their profits are still relatively small.

But George Marshall saw the future potential of this company. The mainland has a population of more than one billion. He also inspected the Pengcheng Special Zone and saw the development speed of Pengcheng with his own eyes.

As long as Continental continues to reform and open up, Continental will become the largest market in the world in the future, and the demand for automobiles is absolutely terrifying, and Bentley Group's early entry into the market will give them an advantage over other auto groups in the future.

George Marshall also went to the Shanghai stock market, where he also visited the SAIC Volkswagen Manufacturing Company that is currently under construction, which made him feel a sense of urgency.

Whether it is the Bentley Group of the Lee Consortium or the Volkswagen Group of the Federal Republic of Germany, they have already entered the mainland market, but their own country's auto groups have not yet paid attention to the development of the mainland. How can they compete with the British and Federal German auto groups in the mainland market in the future? .

He has already decided that after returning to Paris, he will communicate with Mitterrand what he has gained these days, so that he can pay more attention to the development of the mainland and let more domestic enterprises focus on the mainland.

Especially the automobile groups, whether it is the Bentley Group of England or the Volkswagen Group of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the Chrysler Group of the United States and the Toyota Motor Group of Japan have established joint venture automobile companies with Continental. At present, these companies are either in production or under construction. France is already far behind in this regard.

When the Western European and North American markets began to slump, the Asian market was full of vitality. Japan is already the second largest economy after the United States. The economic growth rates of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore have exceeded 10% in recent years. %, so it has the title of the Four Asian Tigers.

The main market here is currently occupied by local chaebols. It is difficult for these groups in Europe and the United States to compete with them. What surprised George Marshall was that the consortiums in these regions began to cooperate to attack European and American groups and The consortium came to Asia and they seized the market.

Among them, the Xiangjiang Lee Consortium is the most important. It has allies in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

The six major consortiums in Japan are currently focusing their attention on the US market, competing with the top ten consortia in the United States, and cooperating more with the Lee consortium in Asia.

Therefore, in Asia, the Lee Consortium currently has no rivals. The Hong Kong British Consortium was beaten and retreated steadily. The Singapore Consortium finally chose to cooperate with the Li Consortium.

The Malaysian Chinese consortium is an ally of the Lee consortium, and a local family that provoked the Li consortium has disappeared.

The son of Chen Bichen, the leader of the Thai Chinese family, is currently an interest group outside the Lee Consortium. At the same time, the Lee Consortium has a good relationship with the Thai royal family and the political family, the Qiu family.

George Marshall felt horrified whenever he thought of the relationship networks established by the Li consortium in these regions. Whether it was a Western European group that wanted to come and develop, or an American consortium that wanted to come and occupy the market in these regions, they all had to face the Li consortium. consortium.

And Li's consortium obviously cannot be regarded as a single existence now. There are countless consortia behind it, especially the six major Japanese consortiums. Don't look at them staring at the American consortium. If the Western European consortium comes to occupy the market here, they will Definitely going to snipe.

Once these consortiums and families are united, whether it is a Western European consortium or an American consortium, it will be very difficult to deal with this force, such as the current supermarket field.

This time, not only Carrefour in their country has been hit, but Wal-Mart in the United States has also not benefited.

Seeing that Carrefour has been attacked in Japan and Taiwan, Wal-Mart skipped these two markets and chose to open up the market in South Korea.It's a pity that they also didn't get any benefits, and were beaten out of the Korean market by the Hengyu Supermarket Group and the Korean Lotte Supermarket Group.

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